European leaders say 26 out of 27 EU member states have backed a tax and budget pact to tackle the eurozone debt crisis.  

Syria's leading opposition movement warned on December 9 of an impending government "massacre" designed to crush activists in the city of Homs, which has emerged as a center of anti-regime unrest.  

Despite some recent signs the sluggish US economy might be improving, President Barack Obama warns it could be years before the country is on a sound footing.

Thirty-five people were killed after a fire scorched a hospital in eastern India Friday, authorities said.

European leaders started a two-day summit in Brussels on December 8 in the latest effort to resolve the continent's debt crisis and save the euro.

A gunman ambushed and killed a campus police officer and was later reported to have been found dead on December 8 at Virginia Tech University, the site of one of the worst shooting rampages in US history.

At least 30 NATO oil tankers and containers were torched following a rocket attack on a container terminal near Quetta of southwestern Pakistan on the night of December 8, reported PTV, a government-run television in Pakistan.

The new top US envoy to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is calling on Pyongyang to take “concrete steps” in order to revive stalled multilateral talks over its nuclear program.

The leaders of France and Germany have jointly called for eurozone countries to have common corporation and financial transaction taxes.

Russia has warned NATO that it is forcing a new arms race by deploying a missile defense shield in Europe.