An attack in broad daylight in London on Wednesday is drawing a swift response — and a possible terror link — from the highest authorities. Reports suggest two men chased down another man with their car before getting out, attacking him with a machete, and dragging him through the city streets.
The disparate factions of the Syrian opposition all gathered at a luxury hotel in Doha this weekend and on Sunday night signed an agreement that unites nearly all of the rebel groups for the first time.
After weeks of negotiations and more protests than we can count, the Greek parliament finally approved its 2013 fiscal budget complete with radical austerity cuts.
No one can say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backs down from a fight. The leader looking for reelection let two old foes know that if they want to start something with Israel, he'd be happy to finish it.
The United Nations said this morning that more 11,000 Syrians have left the country in the last 24 hours, fleeing to Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon.
American military officials revealed yesterday that two Iranian fighter jets intercepted a Predator surveillance drone over international water, and even tried to shoot it down
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Russian-based TV network RT, stating that he has no intention of leaving his country and warned against Western intervention in its civil war.
American elections are always a global event, but with this year's emphasis on the Electoral College, foreigners are cramming to re-learn the complicated state-by-state election system.
Although they don't get a vote, there have been a lot of questions about who the rest of the world would like like to see leading the United States for the next four years, and now least one faction of the Syria civil war has made their opinion known.
More details have emerged in the very curious case of Neil Heywood, a British businessman living in Beijing, who was poisoned by the wife of a Chinese Communist Party leader last year.
Of all the sad, true tales to come of the Syrian civil war over the last 20 months, a bizarre story by journalist Robert Fisk in The Independent may be the most ludicrous. And ludicrously off-base.
While more and more is known about the life and idealism of the late U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens, the identities and actions of his killers still remain a mystery.
A series of five bombs went off in the capital of Bahrain on Monday morning, killing two people and reminding the world that the tiny nation's quiet revolt against its royal family is far from over.
Just in case you needed any more evidence that Israel is really super serious about wanting to take out Iran's nuclear operations, a new report claims that Benjamin Netanyahu initiated a plan to attack Iran back as early as 2010.
Everybody knew that the British loved to conquer lots of countries for their precious empire. It's not until somebody sits down and actually counts all of them that we realize just how many.
He may technically be Russia's second most powerful official, but he's no get-out-of-jail free card: For the second time, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called for Pussy Riot's release on Friday, saying the female punk rockers have served enough time already.
Cracks are beginning to show in the Obama administration's united front on the Benghazi consulate attack with some officials shifting blame to CIA director David Petraeus.
On the night that militants in Benghazi attacked the U.S. consulate and a U.S. ambassador was killed along with four others, the CIA did nothing wrong during the rescue mission, the Washington Post's David Ignatius reports.
It's been more than six weeks since the U.S. compound in Benghazi was attacked, but reporters are still turning up sensitive U.S. documents lying about the wreckage.
Russia's sky-diving, wolf-hunting, horseback riding president has suffered a "sports injury," according to his spokesman, but some Kremlin watchers insist something more serious is afoot.
Following a pair of denials by the CIA and the National Security Council to a Fox News story published Friday, the Pentagon has come under scrutiny for its response to the assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi. However, in a statement to The Atlantic Wire, a senior defense official says the Pentagon never denied requests for military intervention in Benghazi.
The eye of Hurricane Sandy hasn't hit land yet but state-run news outlets in countries at odds with the U.S. are brimming with apocalyptic coverage of the swirling weather system.
Neither side took the United Nations-backed ceasefire in Syria very seriously and on Monday, the tenuous four-day truce collapsed into all-out fighting.
Though you wouldn't know it from his sometimes scruffy beard and bad jackets, Daniel Foa is a newfound member of one of the most powerful families on Earth.
Chinese Prime Minster Wen Jiabao has directly responded (through lawyers) to the New York Times' report about his family's "hidden riches" for the first time, and he's threatening legal action.
A moderately strong earthquake off the coast of British Columbia last night briefly sent residents of the surrounding areas into a panic and captured our weather related attention.
A day after being sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is warning his People of Freedom party might withdraw their for current Prime Minister Mario Monti.
The four day ceasefire agreed upon by Bashar al-Assad and Syrian rebels should be observing its second day, but both sides have continued fighting and show no signs of slowing down.
Here's a nifty piece of trivia to dazzle your friends at your next cocktail party: the Union Cycliste Internationale decided today that the guys who came in second (who are they?) to Lance Armstrong during his seven Tour wins will remain the first losers, as the UCI ruled it won't be moving anyone up or down even though they stripped Armstrong of the wins.
Here's something that could alter the discussion on the attacks in Benghazi: According to Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, CIA operators on the scene repeatedly transmitted requests for military backup but were denied by U.S. officials.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was found guilty of tax evasion and sentenced to four years in prison by a Milan court on Friday, Bloomberg News reports. That's two less years than what the Italian seismologists who were found guilty for not predicting the L'Aquila earthquake.
Coinciding with her family's arrival in the U.K., there are news reports today detailing 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai's brain injuries and the good news is that she's speaking and showed signs of memory—two signs that she did not suffer major brain damage from the Taliban attack that left bullets in her head and neck.
A suicide bomber in attacked a mosque in Afghanistan on Friday, just as worshipers were meeting to mark the start of the Eid al-Adha holiday.
The proposed holiday cease fire in Syria was broken before it ever began on Friday, with both sides of the conflict refusing to give up the fight, even for a day.
Sorry, New York Times readers in China. You're going to need to look for a new paper to read tomorrow morning. China has banned the Times from their Internet over an "explosive" story about the accumulated wealth of outgoing Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's family.
If techies think Microsoft's new Surface tablet is just an iPad knock off, wait until they see North Korea's.
There are reports out of Iran today that the country is nearly finished installing more than 2,800 uranium centrifuges at its highly secure underground nuclear plant.
After a wild week of rocket attacks and reprisals, an Egypt-brokered ceasefire appears to be holding between Israel and Hamas, according to a handful of reports.
In positive step in the shooting case of teenage Pakistani blogger Malala Yousufzai, six people accused of facilitating the attack were arrested on Wednesday, though the main suspect remains at large.
The British economy grew for the first time in nine months, officially moving the UK out of recession and giving all of Europe some hope for the future.
When the term "ozone hole" comes up it's usually followed by talk about how it's huge and gaping and the sun is going to burn the earth like a fried egg in two years unless we all switch to electric cars and squiggly lightbulbs. Not this year. In 2012, the hole in the ozone layer was really small.
The Obama administration came under fire on Wednesday after Reuters and Fox News reported that internal State Department emails revealed that an Islamic militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the Benghazi attacks on social media platforms, but this afternoon, Hillary Clinton fired back saying U.S. intelligence isn't based on random Facebook posts.
Los Angeles Times on other countries fracking, Frontline on climate skeptics, The Guardian on the oil spill's damage to whales. McClatchy Newspapers on climate scientist suing conservatives, and Grist on a California state senate race.
A mysterious explosion leveled an ammunition factory in Sudan last night, but the Sudanese government is now claiming the building was bombed by Israeli warplanes.
About 125 million people are at risk of getting sick from toxic pollution says the very first World's Worst Pollution Problems study—the first study to track the global health burden that industrial pollutants have on people.
Saudi Aramco, the world's most valuable company, was recently hit by a nasty computer virus and the U.S. says Iran is to blame for it.
The United Nations envoy to Syria says Bashar al-Assad has agreed to cease fire during the upcoming Eid al-Adha holiday, but will he honor it?
Scientists and bureaucrats alike are very concerned about the Dead Sea, that super salty, religiously famous lake that lies on the border of Israel and Jordan. It's shrinking at an alarming rate and nobody knows what to do.
The Roman police force is on the lookout for defiers of the law, the law being: Eating and drinking at historic sites. Thou shalt not do it, capisce?
If your colleagues were sentenced to jail for failing to predict the future, you'd probably be upset too. On Tuesday, some of Italy's top scientists resigned from the government's disaster agency to protest the manslaughter conviction of seven seismologists for failing to predict the devastating earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009.
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