Susan Rice has asked President Barack Obama not to pick her as his next secretary of state, after becoming a lightning rod for Republicans over the raid on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Rice,

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Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans rallied Friday in the freezing cold to celebrate the country's rocket launch, staging a choreographed show of defiance under their youthful leader's "endless" wisdom. The enormous rally in central

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Ukraine's acting First Deputy Prime Minister Valery Khoroshkovsky resigned from the interim government on Friday in protest at Prime Minister Mykola Azarov's reappointment for a second term, his office said. In a move that could

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US President Barack Obama Friday signed legislation granting normal trade relations to Russia, which infuriated Moscow by including sanctions targeting alleged Russian human rights abusers. Obama signed the bill into law a day after Russian

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Russia insisted on Friday its stand on the conflict in key ally Syria was unchanged, while Washington and Berlin prepared to deploy Patriot missiles and troops near Turkey's border with the country. A foreign ministry

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Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN) has agreed to pay damages to 22 more victims of phone-hacking, London's High Court heard on Friday. The 22 claimants include television and radio presenter Jamie

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The mother of Nigeria's finance minister was on Friday freed from kidnappers after being abducted from her home in the country's south last weekend in a crime that shocked the country, police said. Details of

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The United States stepped up pressure on Iran on Thursday over its nuclear programme, imposing sanctions on seven companies and five individuals, including Iran's atomic energy chief. The US Treasury Department said the action would

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A senior in-house lawyer at Deutsche Bank is among those being held by police following a raid at the bank's headquarters on Thursday, two sources familiar with the proceedings told Reuters. The lawyer, who cannot

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A surge in trade disputes has forced the World Trade Organization to reallocate staff to cope with a flood of litigation in the pipeline for 2013, according to diplomats and documents at the global trade

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