6 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said a proposal to spend $50 billion initially to modernize the nation's transportation systems won't swell the ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama Monday proposed a quick $50 billion boost in federal spending to rebuild roads, railways and runways ...

Parts of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas are under tropical storm warnings as the eighth named storm of the season approaches their coastlines. ...

MOSCOW – For months, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin has done nothing to dampen speculation that he is seriously considering returning ...

LONDON—A four-year-old tabloid scandal has resurfaced to dog UK Prime Minister David Cameron's chief spokesman, as police here said ...

Despite a shocking “D-” CinemaScore indicating near-toxic word-of-mouth, The American rose to the top of the Labor Day weekend box office largely on star ...

A man is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday in connection with the death of Ann Marie Shirran, the St. John's woman who had been missing since mid-July.

The United Nations estimates eight to 10 million people in Pakistan still need daily help out of a total of 18.7 million affected by the flooding.

A forensic autopsy will be performed Tuesday on human remains found just east of Orangeville, Ont., with results expected no earlier than the next day on whether they are from missing nurse Sonia Varaschin.

Searchers have pulled more bodies from a mud-covered highway as further mudslides from days of torrential rain raised Guatemala's official death toll to 44.

Amid Afghan War Zone, Troops Enjoy T.G.I. Friday's, Coffee, Pizza, Ice Cream

IAEA Chief Says Tehran Restricts Inspectors' Access to Nuclear Sites, Stonewalls Follow-Ups on Past Experiments

President Barack Obama announces a $50bn infrastructure plan as part of efforts to jump-start the faltering US economy.

Hundreds of thousands of people flee towns and villages threatened by fresh floods in Pakistan's deluged southern Sindh province.

South African trade unions suspend a nationwide strike which has paralysed schools and hospitals for 20 days.

France faces disruption in a strike over pension reform on Tuesday, when MPs will also debate a ban on full face veils and a new security bill.

Almost two-thirds of the 160,000 homes in and around Christchurch were damaged by Saturday's earthquake, New Zealand's prime minister says.

At least 17 people, including schoolchildren, are killed in a suicide bombing at a police station in north-west Pakistan - the latest in a spate of attacks.

China is checking the qualifications of all its commercial pilots, after it emerged that more than 200 of them lied about their experience.