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Thousands to participate in Boston Marathon amid tight security
Some 36,000 runners from 70 countries take part Monday in the 118th Boston Marathon. Security is tight at the event, following last ...Riot police, protesters clash in Venezuela
Hundreds of students and opposition supporters have clashed with police forces in the Venezuelan capital Caracas as they staged a rally demanding ...Dozens killed in series of blasts in Iraq
A suicide bomber with an explosives belt attacked the main gate of a Shiite private college while three militants attacked the back ...Angry relatives clash with police as Korean ferry death toll rises
South Korea. Angry relatives of hundreds of missing inside a sunken South Korean ferry clashed with police as coastguard divers retrieved 10 ...Gunbattle in eastern Ukraine leaves four dead
Three pro-Russian militants and at least one other person were killed in a gunbattle near the volatile eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk ...Japanese military expansion set to anger China
Japan has begun construction work on a military radar station near a string of islands that is at the centre of a ...80% of Syrian chemical weapons shipped out: monitors
The head of the international team overseeing the destruction of Syria\'s chemical arms says the country has shipped out or destroyed nearly ...Iran says reactor redesign ends dispute over plutonium production
Iran said it had completed watering down and converting more than 200 kilograms (440 lb) of enriched uranium under a deal reached ...No obstacles to normalizing Russian-West relations – Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin says nothing should impede the normalization of relations between Russia and the West, after ties have hit a ...4 French journalists held hostage in Syria freed
Four French journalists held captive in Syria for almost a year were free and "in good health" on Saturday, President Francois Hollande ...