Polish plans for children to take part in a re-enactment of the wartime extermination of Bedzin's Jewish ghetto have been shelved following criticism from Jewish groups.

Asked about the threat by a Florida pastor to burn copies of the Koran, Barack Obama calls on Americans to observe religious tolerance.

Asked about the threat by a Florida pastor to burn copies of the Koran, Barack Obama calls on Americans to observe religious tolerance.

Danish police hold a man injured by a small blast at a Copenhagen hotel amid reports he was a would-be suicide bomber.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Don't expect a duet between Kanye West and Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Jesse Ignjatovic, the executive producer of Sunday's show, flatly declared there's no chance of the pair reuniting in song a year after West interrupted Swift's acceptance speech for best ...

Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones tells his party conference that after next year's assembly elections he wants to be first minister of Wales.

Unite threat to widen long-running dispute with airline over what it says is an attempt by management to "smash" the union.

At least four people have been killed in an explosion which tore through a town near San Francisco, officials say.

US President Barack Obama has said that progress in pulling the American economy out of recession has been "painfully slow".

President Obama used his first press conference in months to draw a sharp line with congressional Republicans on economic policy and the fate of expiring tax cuts passed under predecessor President George W. Bush.

Mr. Obama said he remained strongly opposed to extending tax cuts for wealthy taxpayers when they ...

Iran rejects claims by dissident groups that it has almost completed a secret uranium-enrichment facility near Tehran.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama insisted Friday that the U.S. economy is showing improvement from the deepest recession in decades but conceded the "progress has been painfully slow." He said he understands that many voters in November's elections may blame the weak recovery on him.

"For all the progress we've ...

Rev. Terry Jones said that his Quran burning plan is still cancelled and that he will travel to New York today to meet with the imam who plans to open an Islamic Center near the former World Trade Center.

A long-time confidant of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Vladimir Ni, has died after a long illness, leaving a gap in the inner circle that surrounds the leader of Central Asia's largest economy.

The US Department of Defense is trying to stop the distribution of a book by a former intelligence officer.

A 22-year-old man is arrested after an eight-hour police siege at a flat in the west end of Glasgow.

Leading artists including Tracey Emin, David Hockney and Damien Hirst join a campaign against proposed government cuts to arts funding.