PUBLIC hospitals, since 2008, offer routine screening for HIV, but their patients do not seem to want it.

The pressures for school studies drove six elementary students to escape home on Saturday. The local police eventually found them on a beach and handed them over to their families,…

A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook several small towns in northeast Italy Sunday, killing four people, knocking down a clock tower and other centuries-old buildings and causing millions in losses to the…

A small sports plane burst into flames just after takeoff in northwest Bosnia on Sunday, killing the five people on board.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace, contending in a pair of interviews that…

Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for much of Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.

Fresh clashes between al-Qaida fighters and government forces in Yemen left 17 dead on Sunday, military officials said, as the army pushed on with an offensive to regain a key…

The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan says American troops will still be involved in combat next year even as the U.S. officially shifts to a support role.

He was the embodiment of one of modern Libya's darkest chapters — a man synonymous with horrifying scenes of wreckage, broken families and a plane that fell out of the…

Prosecutors on Sunday charged two more activists with crimes tied to the NATO summit, accusing one of boasting that he could blow up a downtown Chicago bridge and that he…