President Barack Obama says his decision to free 10 states from the No Child Left Behind education law will give the flexibility they need to ... more

Colombia's chief prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for the peace commissioner of ex-President Alvaro Uribe for allegedly arranging a bogus demobilization of leftist guerrillas. ... more

An Iranian opposition website reported Thursday that authorities have banned one of the daughters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi from her teaching job.

Greenland was in mourning Thursday after an 8-year-old girl and two women were bludgeoned to death and two men seriously injured in a remote Inuit ... more

A suspect in the shooting of a customs agent taught at the same school for aspiring opticians that the victim's wife graduated from less than ... more

After two hours' grueling drive southeast from the center of Mexico City, through paralyzing traffic jams and clouds of throat-burning smog, the bleached-white haze of ... more