A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle packed with explosives rammed into a car carrying the deputy governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Saturday, killing him and wounding three of his bodyguards, the Interior Ministry said.

Myanmar's highest court has declined to hear a case filed by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was seeking to overturn the government's dissolution of herpoliticalparty.

The fishmonger at the market cries, "Long live Tunisia!", his smile as big as the fish he's slicing. Middle-aged women hold sleep-overs to talk politics deep into the night. Euphoric Tunisians have a chance to do what was undreamable three weeks ago: Build a democracy from the ground up.

Bolivia will ask the United Nations to organize a conference on coca leaf-chewing if the U.S., Britain and Sweden don't withdraw their objections to the country's efforts to drop the ban on the ...

U.S. officials signaled Saturday that they want to see Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak take bolder steps to address the concerns of his country's rioting protesters, scoffing at his attempt to quiet the unrest with a string of high-level personnel changes. 

Myanmar is preparing to open its first session of parliament in more than two decades, a major step in the ruling military's self-styled transition to democracy but one being carried out with li...