President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, has arrived in Syria for talks with officials including President Bashar al...

Two of four Uyghurs relocated to Bermuda after seven years of detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, denied Friday that they had ever been terro...

A gaseous hydrogen leak on the space shuttle Endeavour forced NASA to cancel Saturday's planned launch, the space agency said. NASA offi...

Mr Ahmadinejad won his first term in a close race four years ago Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been re-elected as president of Iran with a resound...

"Actions must have consequences." That was US President Barack Obama's cry in the wake of North Korea's second underground...

Thousands of demonstrators have rallied across Australia to demand greater government action to protect the environment from climate change....

China's environment ministry has suspended construction of two dams on a tributary of the Yangtze River. The projects on the Jinsha Rive...

The Italian lower house has cancelled a high-level conference with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after he failed to turn up after a two-hour...

President Barack Obama has announced $73m (£44m) in aid for Zimbabwe. The US president was speaking at the White House in Washington, where ...

The launch of space shuttle Endeavour has been cancelled due to a hydrogen leak, Nasa officials have announced. Endeavour was due to take of...

North Korea has said it will weaponise its plutonium stocks amid threats to take military action over United Nations sanctions, state media ...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is on course to be re-elected as president of Iran with a resounding poll win, according to electoral commission figures...

RIGA, June 12 (RIA Novosti) - Latvia is interested in the constructive development of cooperation with Russia, but does not plan to turn to ...

BRUSSELS, June 12 (RIA Novosti) - Defense ministers of the NATO 28 member states have agreed at their two-day meeting in Brussels to continu...

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Oleg Mityayev) – After 16 years of touch-and-go accession talks with the WTO, the Russian authorit...

The head of the Russia and CIS team at Washington-based Eurasia Group and an analyst on Iranian issues, Cliff Kupchan shared his opinions wi...

BRUSSELS - France returned June 11 to NATO's command fold, taking a seat for the first time in more than 40 years at the military allian...

PARIS - France and Germany have decided to delay for six months a decision on the future of the problem-plagued Airbus A400M military transp...

NEW DELHI - India's state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. has won an order from the Namibian armed forces for two Chetak and one Cheeta...

There are 19,000 pieces of debris larger than a softball orbiting the Earth. They travel at about 17,000 miles per hour, fast enough for a r...