Last summer, this tranquil village woke up to find a dagger piercing its heart. The man who ran the neighborhood pub, the Wyndham Arms, had decided to call it quits....
Battered by a scandal over politicians' expense accounts, the speaker of Britain's House of Commons bowed to the inevitable and announced his resignation Tuesday, becoming the first person to be...
Past glories and future hopes came crashing down together in central Italy amid a powerful earthquake on Monday that crumbled centuries-old churches and claimed the lives of at least 150...
They mingled cordially and dined on Scottish salmon, and not a single person stormed out of the dinner of world leaders at the British prime minister's home late Wednesday. In...
Leaders from across the political spectrum vowed Sunday that the first fatal attack on British soldiers in Northern Ireland in 12 years would not derail the peace process put in...
During a grinding 18-month stretch in the 1990s, U.S. envoy George Mitchell crossed the Atlantic more than 100 times in a dogged search for peace between Northern Ireland's Protestants and...
Despite its crackdown Thursday on a charity group linked to militants accused in the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan's biggest challenge will be showing that its latest moves against alleged terrorists are...
Pakistani troops on Sunday reportedly raided a camp belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba or an affiliated extremist group, in what would be the government's first strike at militants accused in the Mumbai...
Hostility between India and Pakistan is at its worst in years, but tensions stemming from last week's terror attacks in Mumbai are unlikely to bloom into full-blown war between the...
Calling him an "outstanding international mediator," the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 to former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari for his efforts to resolve...