International Herald Tribune

A dispute between news organizations and the Pentagon flared after the May expulsion of four reporters.

The oil spill response commander gave BP another 24 hours to test its well, keeping it shut as BP and officials weigh whether to kill it permanently.

A facelift at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum should enhance its links across cultures and their histories.

Western nations endorsed President Hamid Karzai’s plan for Afghan forces to take the lead on security by 2014.

The jet-leasing newcomer, which has ordered 120 aircraft valued at nearly $9 billion, is the single biggest customer at the Farnborough International Airshow.

Assurances by government leaders in recent weeks that their countries' banks will pass the tests has left economists and analysts anything but reassured.

Appearing with President Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said he did not see the need for more investigation into the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber.

The large-scale naval exercises off Japan and the Korean Peninsula will next week, despite objections from China.

A trainee program brings thousands of apprentices to Japan, but critics say employers pay illegally low wages and treat the migrant workers poorly.

Western nations at a conference in Kabul on Tuesday are expected to endorse President Hamid Karzai’s plan for Afghan forces to take the lead by 2014.

Two new studies found different ways to sharply cut H.I.V. infections among women: a vaginal gel and a system of cash payments.

Biopsy diagnosis can be surprisingly prone to error in identifying breast cancer, often leading to unnecessary and disfiguring surgery.

Russians struggled to cope with record highs while the sun caused fires and withered 24 million acres sown with wheat, barley and other crops in the south.

President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron have numerous topics to discuss, but controversies around Britain’s largest company will lead the list.

Over a thousand National Guard troops are part of the Obama administration’s effort to increase security.

Moktada al-Sadr made his first direct public foray into the impasse, meeting with the prime minister’s rival.

Flush with success in building an increasingly high-profile airline industry, Middle East Gulf states now want to get into aerospace manufacturing too.

The lack of a workable tax system feeds an inequality in Pakistani society, and is helping an insurgency spread and complicating U.S. policy in the region.

The oil spill has added a new element of uncertainty to life on Louisiana’s bayous, which has long mixed beauty and wildlife with periods of natural destruction.

To trains collided at a station in eastern India early Monday, mangling the carriages and killing 61 people, railway police said.