A lawyer for Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf who is on trial for high treason said his client needs to go to the U.S. for further medical treatment following a heart scare.The attorney, Anwar Mansoor Khan, said a doctor in the United States who…

Rebel-on-rebel clashes have killed nearly 700 people over the past nine days in northern Syria in the worst bout of infighting among the opponents of President Bashar Assad since the country's civil war began, activists said Sunday.The fighting between the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of…

When heavily armed marines and government tax agents stormed eight marinas on Mexico's Pacific and Caribbean coasts, boaters thought they were witnessing a major drug takedown.The mostly American and Canadian retirees found out that the target was actually them — couples spending their golden…

A new gold rush is hitting Johannesburg, literally flattening the South African city whose Zulu name “Egoli” means City of Gold.Hundreds of massive dumps of “tailings,” the waste product left from more than a century of gold mining, dot the area in and around…

A Mexican official says an American climber has died on Mexico's tallest mountain after slipping on an icy slope and falling about 300 feet.Charles King, 25, was scaling the Pico de Orizaba, an 18,941-foot peak that straddles the states of Puebla and Veracruz, when…

A six-month old giant panda was unveiled to her adoring public in Taiwan on Monday, as long lines of children of all ages queued up at the Taipei zoo to see the cub cavorting around her cage with an understandably protective mother.Yuan Zai's debut…

The often stale British political system is being rocked by its very own Tea Party.The UK Independence Party (UKIP), formed in 1993 opposing Britain’s entry into the European Union, failed to make an electoral dent for a long time. However UKIP has built up…

Russian officials believe that they know the identity of the man who blew himself up Sunday at a train station in the southern city of Volgograd, killing at least 18 people. The Moscow Times reported Wednesday that officials had identified the suspect as Pavel Pechyonkin,…

A suicide bomber struck a busy railway station in southern Russia on Sunday, killing at least 16 others and wounding scores more, officials said, in a stark reminder of the threat Russia is facing as it prepares to host February's Olympics in Sochi.No one…

Three icebreaking ships are racing toward Antarctica to rescue a Russian vessel that became stranded in remote sea ice on Christmas morning.The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said it received a distress call Wednesday morning from the MK Akademik Shokalskiy, which has 48 passengers on…