A relief fund for the Boston Marathon bombing victims has raised 20 million dollars in just over a week, local authorities announced on Tuesday.
After lengthy and hot debate, France's legislators gave the green light to same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, the Socialists' strongest social reform that sparked series of violent protests and homophobic attacks.
The main twitter account of the Associated Press was hacked on Tuesday afternoon, sending out a false news claiming that Obama was injured in a White House explosion, which caused a sharp drop and a quick rebound in the U. S. stock market.
The UN nuclear watch dog on Tuesday said it would resume talk with Iran on May 15 aimed at finalizing the nuclear inspection framework which the agency has been striving for years to establish.
Foreign ministers from the 28 NATO countries on Tuesday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano on Monday became the first president in the country's history elected for a second mandate.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon met Monday with European Commission Vice President Olli Rehn on eurozone crisis.
Russia on Monday criticized the U. S. 2012 report on human rights and accused it of applying double standards, the Foreign Ministry said Monday.
The U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Monday the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was charged by federal prosecutors, seven days after the bombings killed three people and injured over 200.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon announced Monday that they reached an agreement over arms deal worth 10 billion U.S. dollars.
On the early Sunday morning, six colorful hot air balloons rose to the sky in southern Egypt, with Luxor Governor Ezzat Saad among the first passengers.
The exiled Syrian opposition's desire for a foreign-backed intervention further pushes Syria away from political solutions, but toward a dangerous military showdown, analysts said.
A group of Sudan's Central Reserve Forces in Sudan's west Darfur region on Sunday pulled out of their camp with weapons and staged a "mutiny," the official SUNA news agency reported.
The seat, or center of an explosion that blew off a fertilizer plant and almost razed the U.S. town of West had been located, a U.S. Official said Sunday. Assistant Texas fire marshal Kelly Kistner told a press conference here that the locationing of the center of the explosion is important to the investigation of the the blast.
Authorities are gravely concerned about toxic gases released following Wednesday's huge fertilizer factory blast here, which is believed to have killed dozens and injured more than 170.
The FBI special agent Richard DesLauriers on Thursday released the photos and video of two suspects for Monday's deadly bombings in Boston, asking for the public's help to identify them.
The United States and South Korea on Thursday reaffirmed their strong alliance hours after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) listed conditions for resuming talks with the two countries.
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