Iran has announced the list of eight qualified candidates who have been approved to campaign for president, including two men who are suspects in a notorious 1994 terrorist attack.
In the latest round of back-and-forth provocations, North Korea announced today it would restart its nuclear program and will no longer hide the fact that its planning to use it to make bombs.
It would have been hard to predict that one of the events that most clearly articulated the line between the Tea Party and other conservatives on economic issues would be the failure of two banks on a Mediterranean island.
Ian Crouch on Kevin Ware's injury, Paul Krugman on California's absent crisis, Michael Brendan Dougherty on the golden era of baseball, Kurt Schlichter on losing the gay marriage battle, and Mary McConnell on homeschooling.
Two men from Shanghai have died from a new strain of bird flu in the last month, sparking rumors that it might be related to the "pig soup" that has taken over local rivers.
North Korea ratcheted up its vague but unending threats against the United States, South Korea and other Western nations with another twist as when Kim Jong-Un called a rare party meeting. Apparently in response, the U.S. Air Force sent a fresh batch of the radar-dodging F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets.
Nothing ruins a nice Easter weekend worse than an oil spill and a deadly accident at a nuclear power plant. Just ask the people of Arkansas. That's how they spent their holiday.
The guy chosen to be Hugo Chavez's heir in Venezuela isn't letting a double digit lead in the polls stop him from attacking his opponents where it really hurts ahead of the country's election. He said his opponent is related, albeit distantly, to Adolf Hitler.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France was evacuated Saturday evening after local police received a bomb threat from an anonymous caller, L'Express reports. The call said the attack would occur around 9:30 p.m. local time.
The 94-year-old former president of South Africa is on the mend after being admitted to the hospital for the third time in fourth months earlier this week after a recurrence of a lung infection that hospitalized the Nobel prize winning in December.
Administration officials don't seem to be sweating North Korea's boldest, blustering statement that came out Friday evening announcing something about entering a "state of war" with South Korea.
North Korea greeted the weekend by stating through its KCNA news agency that it is entering a "state of war" with South Korea. This seems like much more serious news than an earlier KCNA story about using nutritious leeks in seasonal dishes, but there's reason to be skeptical that NoKo's latest declaration means anything at all.
Returning to the country he once ruled to face his critics — and possibly prison — former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf found at least one countryman who wasn't happy to see him.
Propaganda wars aren't new. But with the thoroughness of a first-time B-movie director, Kim Jong-un has assembled the perfect image of a rogue state foil to the U.S. The JPEG War has begun.
As banks reopened in the beleaguered island nation of Cyprus Thursday, account holders were told daily limits on cash withdrawals would last only a week. But just kidding, according to the government, it could be a month before Cypriots are allowed full access to their bank accounts
Hours after the chest-thumping Air Force leaders flew stealth bombers over South Korea, Kim Jong-Un has ordered North Korea's rocket units to be prepare for an attack on American bases.
Stories about drug-related violence in Mexico are so commonplace that even ever-more-gruesome details seem to get little more than a glance from Americans. A look at tourism data suggests that it's also not keeping them from visiting.
Slowdowns in Internet traffic in the Middle East and South Asia earlier this week were likely the work of hackers. Hackers in the traditional sense: The Egyptian Navy caught three men hacking into an undersea cable. And it's a bigger problem than it seems.
So we know North Korea has a habit of puffing its chest and it feels like Kim Jong-Un's country declares the annihilation of its enemies seemingly every other day now. But with the U.S. announcing that they're practicing stealth bombing runs over the Korean peninsula, it's a sign that the U.S. is taking those threats seriously.
Banks in Cyprus re-opened today for the first time in nearly two weeks, but the only "bank run" that has developed is the crush of reporters hoping to document the (non-existent) chaos.
The 94-year-old former president of South Africa was admitted to the hospital for the third time in four months late Wednesday night after suffering a recurrence of a lung infection which had the Nobel Peace Prize winner in the hospital for nearly three weeks this past December.
Lawyers for Oscar Pistorius have successfully lobbied a judge to relax the sprinter's bail conditions so that he can travel abroad while awaiting his murder trial.
The 15-year-old Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt from the Taliban last year just secured a $3 million book deal for her memoir, I Am Malala. The book is due out in the fall.
A bomb went off Wednesday evening near the Acropolis in Athens, but the ancient tourist attraction wasn't the target — the scary incident in the middle of the Greek capital may have had more to do with the ongoing financial crisis in Cyprus.
A day after Julia Pierson became the first woman director of the Secret Service, it was learned that the head of the CIA's most secretive division has its first female chief as well.
It's a very busy week for the troubled Pistorius clan in dramatic legal proceedings that aren't going away anytime soon and that continue to shed light beyond the obvious celebrity drama in South Africa.
We didn't think it was possible, but the North Koreans found a completely new way to threaten the South—but this one might actually affect the lives of some people who live below the DMZ.
One of the perks of being named the Bishop of Rome is a sweet apartment overlooking St. Peter's Square, but Pope Francis being Pope Francis, the new pontiff is just fine in his current digs.
Just in case no one understood them after all those other threats, the North Koreans announced today that their army is now on "combat duty posture No. 1." And the Spaniard behind the world's most ubiquitous propaganda machine is ready to explain.
A corner in England has ruled that Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky died by hanging, and despite the temptation to assume otherwise, there are no signs of foul play.
Almost a year-and-a-half after her original murder conviction was overturned, the Italian supreme court has overturned that acquittal, opening the door for another sensational trial of American student Amanda Knox.
Unmanned attacks in countries like Pakistan have become an increasingly controversial and no less common reality — Pakistani officials reported another one by U.S. missile fire just this weekend. So what do all of the strikes look like broken down by the available data? They look like this.
One of the many mysteries surrounding the tale of an alleged Mossad spy who killed himself after arrested by his own people — why was he in jail in the first place? — may have answered, and it involves moles, double agents, and Hezbollah.
The Secretary of State made another unannounced visit to a country in the Middle East on Monday morning. This time he's in Afghanistan to try and make nice over with President Hamid Karzai, whose relationship with the U.S. has been contentious of late — and that's putting it nicely.
U.S. intelligence sources spent most of last week tamping down the idea that the Syrians have begun using chemical weapons on each other. So why isn't Representative Mike Rogers going along with them?
Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib announced his resignation as National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces chief on Sunday, but there are conflicting reports over who wanted him out and whether or not he'll end up leaving in the end.
Boris Berezovsky, a 67-year-old former Russian oligarch, was found dead in his home in Berkshire, England on Saturday. No one knows how or why he died and Berezovsky had a lot of powerful enemies, so the conspiracy theories are already flying.
The drama. The tension. The spreadsheets. Our Bracket of Celebrity/Pundit Bracket Predictions has only gotten better as Round 2 begins. Did your favorite TV personality and/or politician win the battle of the picks? Come see!
North Korean citizens are apparently "happy with pride and honor that they have one of the best systems for promotion and protection of human rights in the world," according to the country's envoy to the U.N. That, apparently, was not enough to convince the U.N., which wants to establish a commission to look into the way the country treats its people.
This week delivered a familiar narrative from Syria. Allegations of a chemical weapons attack bubbled up to the international stage, eliciting shock and awe across the board, only to be disproven a couple days later.
A leading Sunni imam with close ties to Bashar al-Assad was killed today, when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside his mosque — a potential turning point that risks pushing the conflict from a war to unseat Assad into a Sunni vs. Shia grudge match.
On the same Barack Obama made his first visit to the West Bank as President and held talks with Mahmoud Abbas, militants in Gaza fired rockets into southern Israel, underlining the divisions still faced between not just Israelis and Palestinian, but within the two factions.
It seems like every day now that North Korea has some sort of threat, warning, accusation, or other message to send about the "flames of justice" they are ready to hand out to anyone who messes with them. Today brings two potential targets.
A lot of people like to talk about how Israel's becoming a prison. But when it comes from a veteran war correspondent who was recently taken prisoner in Syria, the analogy is somehow more lucid.
The President of the United States is in Israel, in case you hadn't heard. How did he spend his first presidential afternoon in the Holy Land? Let's take a visual tour, with vacation slides!
Did Syria use chemical weapons on its own people? If the verdict comes back "yes," then what? Will U.S. troops invade or bomb the country, as Republicans have suggested? Give the rebels all the guns they need? Welcome to the land of no consequences.
Dominic Elliott, the 23-year-old personal assistant to David Hockney — arguably Britain's greatest living artist — is dead. Authorities have suddenly out natural causes, and so this is the stuff of British tabloid fodder, to be sure.
The web servers of three television networks and three major banks in South Korea were brought down by cyber attacks earlier today and, naturally, the first suspected culprit is North Korean hackers.
On Tuesday, the Supremes ruled that textbooks sold inexpensively overseas could be legally resold in America. So how rich are you about to get shipping Chinese copies of DVDs stateside? We do the math.
Barack Obama climbs aboard Air Force One tonight for what is, in some circles, the most anticipated trip of his precedency: a two-day visit to Israel and the West Bank.
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