BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters pressed ahead with a mass rally in Bangkok on Tuesday, some expressing frustration that four days of peaceful protests had failed to force Thailand's premier to call elections. After marching on Monday to an army base that Prime Minister Abhisit ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday rejected any curbs on Jewish settlement in and around Jerusalem, defying Washington in Israel's deepening crisis with U.S. President Barack Obama's administration. "For the past 40 years, no Israeli government ever limited ...

The epicenter of the aftershock was 21.7 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. "The characteristics of this quake do not merit a tsunami (alert). The situation is normal," said Vicente Nunez, the head of the national emergency office, known by its ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon suggested in a new report on Afghanistan that the United Nations is ready to continue informal talks with the Taliban but the contact must be discreet, diplomats said. The 15-nation U.N. Security Council will discuss Ban's report on ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Catholic politicians and lay activists urged Pope Benedict on Monday to speak out about sexual abuse cases by priests that have shocked the country and led to questions about his management of the crisis. The calls came amid widespread criticism in the media that the ...

The opposition Conservatives, seeking to end 13 years of Labour government, are ahead in opinion polls by a slim margin, with some surveys suggesting a hung parliament, in which neither main party wins a parliamentary majority. Asked whether he owed it to Labour to quit as leader if he failed to ...

"I wish to point out that this issue is the subject of widespread attention in the international community," Yang Jiechi told reporters "China has become more concerned about the current situation."

"He is safe," said Raja Basharat, the boy's grand-uncle. Police in Jhelum, the town where Sahil Saeed was kidnapped, had said the gunmen who abducted him after holding relatives at gunpoint for several hours took away 150,000 rupees ($1,750) and some gold and later demanded a 10 million ...

The gunbattle occurred in Byalalu, on the outkirts of IT hub Bangalore. The Home (Interior) Ministry sees ISRO buildings as a high priority target for militants, and has beefed up security around them after warnings of possible attacks.

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian presidential frontrunner Juan Manuel Santos faces a struggle to secure an outright victory in May's election after legislative election results over the weekend put President Alvaro Uribe's alliance under pressure. Uribe's U Party, led by Santos, and the allied ...