DETROIT -- General Motors extended its record-breaking string of safety problems, announcing Friday three more recalls, including a large one involving its top-selling vehicle. The recalls, part of a top-to-bottom safety review, bring the company's total for the ...

HYDERABAD, India -- A state-owned gas pipeline exploded and burst into flames Friday, killing at least 14 people, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of neighbouring villages in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, authorities said.

JERUSALEM -- Dozens of Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday ended their 63-day-long hunger strike after reaching a deal with Israeli prison authorities, a Palestinian official said. The development comes against the backdrop of a broad Israeli ground ...

BAGHDAD -- America's top diplomat said Monday that leaders of Iraq's factions must keep their commitments to seat a new parliament next week, before a Sunni insurgency sweeps away hopes for a lasting peace. Meeting with all factions, U.S. Secretary of ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Leroy Fer scored a minute after coming on as a substitute to break the deadlock and help give the Netherlands a 2-0 victory over Chile on Monday and top Group B at the World Cup with three consecutive wins. Fer had only just replaced ...

Journalists, human rights groups, and governments worldwide are condemning the seven-year jail sentence handed down to three Al Jazeera English journalists following a trial that's been criticized for failing to present any credible evidence of wrongdoing.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The magnitude of Spain's opening 5-1 loss to Netherlands comes into sharper focus Wednesday when the defending champions must fend off World Cup elimination against Chile, less than a week into the tournament. Spain and 2010 ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says his forces are searching for the three Israeli teens missing in the West Bank and criticized their abductors. Abbas told Muslim and Arab leaders gathered in Saudi Arabia that those who ...

The price of oil eased slightly Tuesday after the U.S. said it was deploying a small group of troops to Iraq, which helped soothe fears somewhat over the prospect of disruption to crude supplies. By mid-afternoon in Europe, benchmark U.S crude for July ...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli soldiers arrested 41 more Palestinians in the West Bank early on Tuesday, the army said, expanding the already massive search for three missing Jewish seminary students who disappeared last week. Israel has blamed Hamas for the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Neymar and his Brazilian teammates will be back in action for their second match at the World Cup, before Russia and South Korea have even kicked off their campaigns. Brazil won the tournament's opening game last week against ...

DAMASCUS, Syria -- A convoy of chemical weapons inspectors came under attack Tuesday while travelling to the site of a suspected chlorine gas attack in Syria, but all staff members were safe, the international watchdog agency said. The Organization for ...

DAMASCUS, Syria -- A convoy of chemical weapons inspectors came under attack Tuesday while travelling to the site of a suspected chlorine gas attack in Syria, but all staff members were safe, the international watchdog agency said. The Organization for ...

1. Martial law: In a surprise, pre-dawn operation, Thailand's army declared martial law Tuesday and deployed troops into the heart of Bangkok. Insisting a coup d'etat is not underway, the military said the move was aimed at establishing stability after six ...

Canadian help has arrived on the ground in Nigeria to join the search for nearly 300 kidnapped schoolgirls, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird confirmed Monday. “I am pleased to say that as we committed to last week, there are Canadians who have arrived ...

A new video released by Islamic militant group Boko Haram purportedly shows some of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped last month. In the video obtained by AFP news agency on Monday, a number of girls are seen in an undisclosed ...

A new video released by Islamic militant group Boko Haram claims to show the missing Nigerian girls who were kidnapped last month. In the video obtained by AFP news agency on Monday, a number of girls are seen in an undisclosed rural location, wearing ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Kun-hee remained hospitalized in stable condition Monday after being treated for a heart attack, company officials said. Lee, 72, was rushed to a hospital near his Seoul home late Saturday after ...

PRETORIA, South Africa -- Oscar Pistorius' defence tried to show Friday that his girlfriend was still falling as she was hit by the last of the shots that killed her and not sitting holding her arms over her head to protect herself, as prosecutors have argued.

PARIS -- The $35 billion deal to combine Publicis Groupe and Omnicom collapsed due to differences over how to implement a "merger of equals" in creating the world's biggest advertising firm, the CEO of the French company said Friday. Maurice Levy, the ...