Amidst privacy concerns, Google says it will revamp its Buzz social networking interface.

A majority of Germans want debt-ridden Greece to be thrown out of the euro zone if necessary.

Mr. Brainwash and Mr. Banksy are elusive.

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile phone company by subscribers, offered to buy the African operations of the Kuwaiti telecommunications company Zain [...]

Drug money helped keep the global financial system afloat, the United Nations drugs and crime czar says.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been hit in the face and knocked to the ground after a political rally in Milan.

Iran’s Supreme Leader has accused the opposition of breaking the law by insulting the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah [...]

Oil prices tumbled Friday after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate topped 10 percent for the first time since 1983.

The U.N. General Assembly approves what has become an annual measure criticising North Korea for having one of the worst rights records in the world.

The IAEA director-general is convinced that Iran is pursuing what is [...]

North Korea has fired five short-range missiles off its east coast and declared a “no sail” zone in the area from October 10-20.

Two academics who broke new ground in researching how people cooperate with each other outside of conventional markets won the Economics Nobel Prize.

Anti-terrorism magistrates in Paris have filed preliminary charges [...]

China and a top G77 official accused rich nations of trying to kill off the Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations’ main weapon in the fight against global warming.

China pledged to strengthen bonds with isolated North Korea, nudging it to improve its economy.

Israeli minister and former military chief Moshe Yaalon cancelled a UK [...]

Japan’s economy grew for the first time in five quarters, pulling the world’s second largest economy out of its longest recession since World War II.

E-waste, used computers and electronics shipped abroad, are finding more uses than originally thought.

Muslim girls from the Middle East are statistically scoring much higher on standardized tests than their non-Islamic counterparts. [...]

A leading energy economist has warned that the world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production.

Three years after Israel fought a bloody war in Lebanon against Hezbollah, there are fears that [...]