The Group of 7 industrialized nations condemned Moscow's "continued occupation of Georgia," and a group of Asian allies led by China failed to follow Russia's lead on independence for two breakaway regions of Georgia.

Nowhere do South Koreans' historical grievances, and their fear and mistrust of their neighbors, turn more emotional than in the friction over what South Korea calls Dokdo and Japan calls Takeshima.

GDP rose at a 3.3% clip in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday, a significant jump over the original estimate of 1.9% growth.

Heavy asset write-downs stripped Crédit Agricole of all but a sliver of profit and Natixis swung to a loss.

The Clintons did everything they were supposed to do at the Democratic convention.

I need to address a disturbing issue that we all need to be more disturbed about: bird porn.

Barack Obama needs to be clear about what he stands for, and about why - in such dire times - Americans should trust him and his party with their futures.

The Coen brothers' new film, "Burn After Reading," is a satire on politics, lust and comedy itself.

Even after thousands of campaign events, many Americans say they do not feel they know Barack Obama.

Excitement is building for Paul McCartney's first concert in Israel, an epilogue to a tale that began in 1965 when the authorities canceled a Beatles concert on "spiritual and cultural" grounds.

Whether it's finding a compromise about staying a vegetarian or creating an online way to make a holy offering, India is surfacing as an island of hybridization in a globalized sea of homogeneity.

The extreme secrecy surrounding talks between the most senior American and Pakistani commanders on Tuesday underscores how gravely the two nations regard the militant threat.

The system is similar in some ways to the rendition program used by the Central Intelligence Agency to secretly transfer suspected militants back to their home countries to be jailed and questioned.

Iraq and the Chinese state-run oil company, CNPC, have agreed on the renegotiated terms of a deal signed in 1997 to pump oil from the Ahdab oil field.

Yuri Nosenko, a former Soviet agent who was at the center of some of the most dramatic espionage episodes of the Cold War, has died under an assumed name, somewhere in the southern United States, a senior American intelligence official said.

The province had been a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency and one of the most violent regions in Iraq.

Though just a short ferry hop from Vancouver, the 50-mile stretch of craggy forest and marine parks that make up this coast feels far away from the city's action.

In Brazil, the government is encouraging farmers to produce more for export while prices are high. But Argentina is focused on encouraging farmers to sell more at home.

Thousands of protesters refused a civil court's orders to leave the premises on and their leaders challenged the police to enter and arrest them.