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AP - A man armed with grenades and an assault rifle attacked holiday shoppers Tuesday at a central square in the Belgian city of Liege, leaving four people dead and wounding 75 others, officials said. More...

Troops backed by armored vehicles and hundreds of riot police fired shots in the air and used clubs Monday to clear out activists camped in Cairo's Tahrir Square for weeks to demand justice for those behind the killing of protesters during Egypt's uprising. The protesters hurled rocks at the...

The Egyptian army moved into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday and cleared away a few hundred protesters who remained camped there after the main groups suspended a three-week demonstration held to advance demands for faster democratic reforms. There was little sign of violence, though witnesses...

Manitoba's plan to open a dike on the swollen Assiniboine River to avoid a potentially catastrophic unplanned flood appears to be working, officials in the Canadian Prairie province said on Sunday. Water is flowing through the cut made in a dike east of the community of Portage la Prairie on...

Manitoba's plan to open a dike on the swollen Assiniboine River to avoid a potentially catastrophic unplanned flood appears to be working, officials in the Canadian Prairie province said on Sunday. Water is flowing through the cut made in a dike east of the community of Portage la Prairie on...

SANAA, Yemen – Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis packed a square in the capital and marched in villages and cities across the nation on Friday in what appeared to be the largest demonstrations in more than a month of demands the country's longtime ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh step down. Youth...

Egypt's prime minister-designate vowed Friday before thousands of demonstrators at a central Cairo square to do everything he could to meet their demands and pleaded with them to turn their attention to "rebuilding" the country. Essam Sharaf was picked by Egypt's military rulers on Thursday to...

BENGHAZI, Libya – Militias loyal to Moammar Gadhafi opened fire Friday trying to break up marches by regime opponents defying a fierce clampdown to hold their first major protest in the Libyan capital Tripoli in days. Across rebellious cities in the east, tens of thousands held rallies in...

-- Opposition activists formed a human chain outside one of the entrances to Tahrir Square on Saturday afternoon to prevent two Egyptian military tanks from crossing through barricades into what has effectively become an anti-Mubarak enclave in the heart of the Egyptian capital. An eyewitness...

-- Negotiations could begin Saturday between Egypt's vice president and some opposition groups, as anti-government protests continue for a 12th day. The mood in Cairo's Tahrir Square Saturday morning was tense, but peaceful. Cars traveled over a nearby overpass. Outside the Egyptian Museum...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/03/ac.cairo.heavy.gunfire.cnn -- Soldiers moved between supporters and foes of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo on Thursday, the same day the government said it was beginning communication with opposition parties. An opposition leader has...

NKOTB, Boys plan New Year's gig NEW YORK, -- New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys are to perform from New York's Times Square on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2011." ABC said Thursday the male pop acts will join previously announced acts Ke$ha and Taio Cruz in...

Aggressive Elmo irks Times Square NEW YORK, -- Batman and other regular characters in New York's famed Times Square say they aren't happy an aggressive Elmo has returned to bug tourists. "He swears and curses. Times Square was better when he was gone," the guy dressed as Batman told the...

NEW YORK – A Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was hauled off a plane about to fly to the Middle East and will face terrorism charges in the failed attempt to explode a bomb-laden SUV in the heart of Times Square, authorities said Tuesday. One official said he claimed to be acting alone. Faisal...

Firefighters hope favourable weather helps them tame B.C. blaze By The Canadian Press KELOWNA, B.C. - Firefighters hope favourable weather allows them to tame a raging forest fire in West Kelowna, B.C. About 11,000 residents fled their homes after the Glenrosa fire that began Saturday quickly...