One of London's most prominent bankers was fined 450,000 pounds ($720,000) for passing on inside information in a case that will embarrass his employer J.P. Morgan Cazenove and which marks a push by British regulators to target high-profile figures.
Women and children in rural areas of Afghanistan consume opium on a regular basis to cure their illnesses. The Afghans believe that opium has curative powers.
The bodies of two children, who are believed to have been killed in an acid attack, were found in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province Friday.
The attorney representing Sgt. Robert Bales, the American soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians, said that he believes the government is intentionally hiding evidence from the defense team. However, the prosecution is running into it's own roadblocks.
A new account of Osama bin Laden's life on the run after the September 11, 2001 attacks reveals that the al Qaeda leader spent nine years moving through a series of safe-houses in Pakistan, not hiding in the mountains on the Pakistan-Afghan border as previously believed.
Dozens of Taliban fighters were killed in US air strikes and a firefight in western Afghanistan, which followed an attack by the Taliban rebels on an army patrol, NATO and Afghan officials said Friday.
All Katie needed to say was, Daddy's home. Like a switch went off in his brain, the young boxer named Chuck leapt out of the back of Katie's parked SUV and ran to his best friend Nick, who had just returned home to Germany after serving eight months in Afghanistan.
Human Rights Watch published a report Wednesday on approximately 400 Afghan women and girls imprisoned for moral crimes, calling upon the U.S. and coalition nations to pressure the Afghan government to end what it deems discriminatory laws against women.
Mehar reportedly had travelled to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and even Israel, in 2010, with the help of French intelligence.
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are meeting in Delhi to discuss a range of issues, including increased financial integration of the member countries.
Emergency dispatchers answering 911 calls can develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder even if they are not directly witnessing tragic events, a new study shows.
Wednesday's high-level meeting was the first bilateral military visit since a cross-border attack by NATO helicopters last November killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, prompting Pakistan to re-evaluate its level of cooperation with Western forces in Afghanistan.
Surgeons from the University of Maryland Medical Center on Tuesday detailed what they said was the world's most comprehensive face transplant - allowing a 37-year-old man to emerge from behind a mask 15 years after a gun accident almost killed him.
The government of President Hamid Karzai has failed in its duty to improve the rights of women in the country.
President Barack Obama sought to diffuse criticism Tuesday about overheard remarks he made to Russia President Dmitry Medvedev about having more flexibility to reach an agreement about a missile defense shield after the election.
Despite Washington officials offering a series of key concessions -- including giving Pakistan intelligence pre-warning for any strikes -- Islamabad has flatly rejected all offers, leaving already stretching already strained U.S.-Pakistan relations.
The 2013 budget, penned by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, would institute the Buffet Rule, while suspending emergency war funding and Bush-era tax cuts.
Al-Jazeera said on Tuesday that it will not show the video it obtained of the attacks on French soldiers, Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi.
Americans across the political spectrum believe the war in Afghanistan is futile and want to bring the troops home, according to a new a New York Times/CBS poll.
The US was the only western country to have carried out judicial executions last year and the 43 executions in the country ranked it fifth in the world in capital punishment, behind China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Amnesty International said Monday.
The U.S. war effort in Afghanistan has become more unpopular than ever, a New York Times/CBS News poll released Monday finds.
Gilani will also meet directly with President Barack Obama to try to repair the fractured ties between Pakistan and the U.S.
