The authorities, who have improved their ability to respond to disasters since the 2004 quake, issued a tsunami warning.

Afghan authorities said an airstrike by coalition forces killed Afghan soldiers in what the U.S.-led coalition said may have been "a case of mistaken identity on both sides."

The Saudi interior minister says that authorities have indicted 991 suspected militants in the kingdom's first terrorism trial.

The violence broke out after a teenager was killed in a car crash while fleeing the police, the authorities said.

Authorities say no bomb was found after a threat forced nearly 100 passengers from a Northwest Airlines jet waiting for takeoff ...

BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) -- A Canadian man accused of participating in military exercises and firearms training as part of a group authorities say plotted to storm Parliament and behead the prime minister was found guilty Thursday....

Authorities say a man arrested near Barack Obama's Chicago home told police officers he wanted to speak with the presidential ...

With nobody to claim responsibility, the authorities consider the brazen attack to be a sign that all bets in the drug war may be off.

The authorities have located a group of kidnappers and the 19 hostages they seized in Egypt, but no rescue attempt that could endanger the hostages is planned.

By Ashraf Badr and Andrew Heavens
CAIRO/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Authorities know the whereabouts of kidnappers who seized 19 hostages in the Egyptian desert, but have no plans for any rescue operation that could harm the captives, a Sudanese Foreign Ministry official said on Tuesday.
Masked kidnappers snatched the hostages -- five Italians, five Germans, a Romanian and eight Egyptians -- from a desert safari near Egypt's southern border with Sudan and Libya on Friday and were thought to hav