Germany Removing Gold From U.S. & France
Posted: 5:26 PM Germany's central bank is bring back $36 billion in gold bars it has stored in the United States and France.
Posted: 5:26 PM Germany's central bank is bring back $36 billion in gold bars it has stored in the United States and France.
Posted: 5:17 PM Americans are among a group of hostages being held by Islamist militants who attacked a gas field in southern Algeria.
Posted: 6:47 PM The army says the shooting Tuesday evening was unprovoked.
Posted: 6:46 PM What caused the blasts remained unclear.
Updated: 11:44 PM They took the luxury of Cadillac and mixed it with the efficiency of an electric car, making it a first of it's kind.
Posted: 1:52 PM A popular cleric in Pakistan lead a demonstration calling for the resignation of the government.
Posted: 7:03 PM Mexico says the majority of guns used by the country's violent drug cartels are smuggled over the border from the United States.
Posted: 7:01 PM Declaring France had "opened the gates of hell" with its assault, the rebels threatened retribution.
Posted: 7:27 AM Activists say Syrian fighter jets have bombed Damascus suburbs as part of a government offensive to dislodge rebels from strategic areas around the capital.
Posted: 7:23 AM An Israeli religious party says its powerful spiritual leader has been released from hospital after a minor stroke, easing concerns his health could affect the party's fortunes ahead of Jan. 22 elections.
Posted: 7:20 AM Thousands of people marched through Moscow on Sunday to protest Russia's new law banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
Posted: 7:18 AM Nearly 200 inmates considered political prisoners by Georgia's new parliament have walked free under an amnesty strongly opposed by President Mikhail Saakashvili.
Posted: 6:53 PM Last month, President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
Posted: 6:52 PM Police officer Mohammed Murtaza says the attack in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, also wounded more than 100 people.
Updated: 9:53 AM Academy Award nominations are announced Thursday morning. Steven Spielberg's Lincoln leads the list with 12 nominations.
Posted: 10:26 PM U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous asked the Security Council on Tuesday to support the deployment of drones to improve the U.N. peacekeeping mission's ability to protect civilians in the vast area.
Posted: 10:24 PM Venezuela's National Assembly has approved a plan for President Hugo Chavez not to attend his scheduled inauguration this Thursday and to instead be sworn in later on before the Supreme Court.
Posted: 8:15 PM Catholic leaders in the Venezuelan Bishops Conference are criticizing the government for failing to provide more details about Chavez's state nearly a month after his Dec. 11 operation.
Posted: 8:13 PM The Kenya Wildlife Service says its rangers are pursuing a poaching gang.
Posted: 12:32 PM Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and former ambassador and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson have arrived in Communist North Korea against the wishes of the Obama administration.
Posted: 8:34 AM Philippine officials say they're preparing to file criminal charges against a house caretaker who reloaded the pistol of a man who went on a shooting rampage near Manila that left nine people dead.
Posted: 8:31 AM Syria's official news agency says a journalist for a pro-government television station has died of wounds sustained in shooting attack in the suburbs of the capital, Damascus.
Posted: 8:29 AM China Meteorological Administration says the country's average temperature has hit the lowest in 28 years this winter, as snow and ice throughout China have closed highways, canceled flights and stranded travelers.
Posted: 8:26 AM Indonesia's state-managed news agency is reporting that anti-terrorism police have shot and killed five suspected Islamist militants in eastern Indonesia.
