JPMorgan Chase, the biggest bank in the United states, is in damage control after losing $2 billion in just six weeks due to 'complex investments'.

International mediator Kofi Annan has warned the United Nations Security Council of a full scale civil war in Syria after a truce failed to end bloodshed between government forces and protesters.

The US's top counter-terrorism adviser says drone attacks on foreign soil are legal, ethical, and necessary to tackle terrorist operations.

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says her party, the National League for Democracy, has abandoned its political boycott and will agree to swear the parliamentary oath this week, despite reservations over the wording.

Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, known as the "blind lawyer," has escaped house arrest after 18 months and gone into hiding.

Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia, has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by a UN-backed special court. He is the first former head of state to be convicted of war crimes since the Nuremberg Trials after the ...

A coroner's inquiry has begun into the death of a British MI6 agent. The body of Gareth Williams was found in his London flat, inside a padlocked sports bag.

While incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist challenger Francois Hollande appear to be evenly matched for the first round of France's presidential elections, Hollande is expected to win the second round easily.

With supporters of the "Kony 2012" campaign being encouraged to cover streets with the name of African war criminal Joseph Kony, the question again arises of whether this is social activism or slick marketing.

The wives of the British and German ambassadors to the UN have released a video calling on Asma al-Assad to speak out against the government crackdown in Syria.