The 42nd president has officially joined the millions of people who use Twitter.

Persian Gulf states stock up on expensive arms to protect against neighboring Iran.

Sixteen hours after investigators began interrogating him, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings went silent: he'd just been read his constitutional rights.

Iraq's Defense Ministry says gunmen have taken over a small Sunni town north of Baghdad after clashes with security forces.

An official says that no buildings constructed after a powerful earthquake struck southwest China in 2008 collapsed during last week's quake in the same province.

The revolving door between politics and media continues to spin.

North Korea's military, founded 81 years ago Thursday, is older than the country itself. It began as an anti-Japanese militia and is now the heart of the nation's "military first" policy.

A Swedish appeals court has convicted the gunman in a spate of shootings that mainly targeted immigrants of three further attempted murders, and upheld his life sentence.

The top U.S. military officer told American troops based in Japan on Thursday that "the best way to avoid war is to prepare for it."

The fire broke out in the early hours of Friday in the one-story hospital in the town of Ramenye.

The fire broke out in the early hours of Friday in the one-story hospital in the town of Ramenye.

Wikileaks wins a victory in Iceland's Supreme Court against a financial blockade on payments to the whistle-blowing site.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the Boston bombing should spur closer security cooperation between Moscow and Washington but it also proves that the West was wrong in supporting militants in Chechnya.

A phone tip and a Superman tattoo led to the Mexico arrest and return to the U.S. of a fugitive charged with abducting and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old Los Angeles girl.

The number of U.S. states allowing gay marriage is set to enter double digits now that Rhode Island's state Senate has taken a landmark vote.

The Air Force's decision to transfer a lieutenant colonel to a Tucson military base after his sexual assault conviction was overturned by a commander has outraged the family of the woman who made the allegations, adding to the growing criticism of the military justice system.

A large fire that began with explosions aboard two fuel barges in Mobile, Ala., was rocked by a seventh explosion early Thursday and fire officials said they planned to let the fire, which has injured three, burn overnight.

After five weeks of battle, Syrian government troops captured a strategic town near Damascus, cutting an arms route for rebels trying to topple President Bashar Assad's regime, state media and activists said Thursday.

Neil Lennon says his Celtic players are angry over their absence from the shortlist for PFA Scotland's player of the year.

Russell Westbrook slammed his hand on the scorer's table in anger. He had been slowing down to call a timeout when rookie Patrick Beverley came careening in to try for a steal and crashed into Westbrook's knee.