President Barack Obama said on Thursday he reserved the right to resort to both diplomatic and military options to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but insisted that U.S. action alone would not be enough to resolve the Syrian crisis. Taking a cautious line at a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, Obama voiced hope that the United States and Russia would succeed in arra ...

One of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's restaurants will be fined more than $12,000 after it served regular pasta to a customer with celiac disease, sickening her, according to news reports. The Sun first reported on the incident, which occurred in 2011 when 38-year-old Kristy Richardson dined at Jamie's Italian in Porstmouth, U.K. Richardson has celiac disease -- which is a condition where the immune system r ...

A suicide bomber in a car targeted two vehicles carrying foreign forces in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday killing at least six Afghan civilians, Afghan officials said. It was not clear if any members of the foreign force were killed or wounded. The Hezb-e-Islami insurgent group, allied with the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack. A spokesman for the militants told Reuters U.S. military a ...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday a spy dispute could impede efforts to improve ties with the United States, but did not threaten any more action after the expulsion of a diplomat accused of trying to recruit a Russian agent. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov made his first comments on the case as U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul discussed it with the Russian Foreign Ministry. McFaul, who was sum ...

President Barack Obama learned on Monday what can happen to presidents caught up in allegations of scandal: they have to address them instead of anything else. It happened when the president had to interrupt his news conference with Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain to answer questions about the widening investigation into the Benghazi attacks in Libya and the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of T ...

Turkey accused a group with links to Syrian intelligence of carrying out car bombings that killed 46 people in a Turkish border town Reyhanli, and said on Sunday it was time for the world to act against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The two car bombs, which ripped through crowded shopping streets in Reyhanli on Saturday, increased fears that Syria's civil war is dragging in neighboring states ...

The veteran ABC News anchor Barbara Walters is set to announce today on The View that she will retire from TV journalism next summer. ABC said in an announcement late Sunday that, until then, she will continue to anchor and report for the network, anchor specials throughout the year, and appear on The View. She will remain executive producer of The View. 'I am very happy with my decision,' Barbara said, 'an ...

Former Pakistan cricket star Imran Khan's party was enjoying a late surge of support on Friday, the eve of a landmark election, raising the prospect of a fragmented parliament that could lead to weeks of haggling to form a coalition government. The failure of the major parties to capture a commanding lead raises the risk a weak government will emerge, clouding optimism over the first transition between civi ...

Eight people were killed when a fire swept through a clothing factory in Bangladesh, police and an industry association official said on Thursday, as the death toll from the collapse of another factory building two weeks ago climbed above 900. The fire, in an industrial district of Dhaka, comes amid global attention on safety standards in Bangladesh's booming garment industry following the catastrophic coll ...

Israeli police detained on Wednesday the Palestinians' top Muslim religious leader from his Jerusalem home, a day after a scuffle between Palestinians and Israelis outside the city's main al-Aqsa mosque. Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, serves under the Palestinian Authority which exercises limited rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as well as neighboring Jordan, long a custodian o ...