The US House of Representatives is poised for a historic vote tomorrow that could bring into law the biggest changes to the country's healthcare system in half a century, and transform Barack Obama's presidency.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is expected to meet top US administration figures in Washington next week after sharp international condemnation yesterday of his government's most recent plans to expand a Jewish settlement.
Two members of the international quartet of Middle East mediators suggested today that stalled indirect peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians may be unblocked in coming days.
The parents of Sahil Saeed were given just 72 hours to raise the �110,000 to secure the safe release of their five-year-old son, it emerged last night as the boy and his father finally arrived back home in Oldham.
A Pennsylvania woman who called herself "Jihad Jane" pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to kill in a foreign country.
Belgium has been attempting to smooth over its strained relations with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but the latest effort by the Defence minister has badly backfired.
As traditional dancers shake their bodies beside the Congo River in celebration of a 40-year-old museum opening to its public for the first time, one brooding man does not budge at all. A larger-than-life bronze statue of Henry Morton Stanley the British explorer of "Dr Livingstone, I presume" fame, who carved out the country in 1885 with such scant regard for human life he earned himself the name "Breaker of Rocks" lies uncomfortably on his back, a raised hand clutching a ..
Wearing a green uniform designed by Karl Lagerfeld and a sword engraved with her Auschwitz tattoo number, Simone Veil, 82, was enthroned as one of the French immortals yesterday.
The reported mastermind of a disastrous currency reform that wiped out the savings of impoverished North Koreans and caused chaos and starvation has been executed in what appears to be a desperate attempt to head off social unrest.
The trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna will continue unchecked after the rejection yesterday of a proposed fishing ban that had been described by conservationists as the only way to save the critically endangered species from extinction.
An immigrant Thai farm worker was killed in Israel yesterday by a rocket fired from Gaza as the EU's foreign policy chief, Baroness Ashton, made a rare high-profile visit to the territory.
With his face gazing from posters celebrating the 600th anniversary of the founding of this historic city, Narendra Modi chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat likes to present himself as a man of destiny. Yet slowly but surely history may be catching up with India's most controversial politician.
Two former employees accused of helping fraudulent Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff programme an old computer to generate false records have been indicted.
Washington Post UN chief Ban Ki-moon calls for Israel .. - Washingtonpost CHINA Pedestrians bear the brunt of a sandstorm that hit Lanzhou in Gansu province. Northern China has been hit by the strongest sandstorm so far this year, causing flight delays at Beijing's international airport.
