With his approval ratings dropping and Democrats at risk of losing control of Congress this November, President Barack Obama on Wednesday launched a campaign-style attack on Republicans he accused of putting politics before the country's best interest.

Pakistan police have arrested three suspects linked to a Pakistani-American accused in New York of the attempted car bombing of Times Square, a senior police official said Wednesday.

The former U.S. commander in Afghanistan, sacked over a disastrous magazine interview, plans to teach Yale University students about "coping with failure" and the "media environment" in his course on leadership.

Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro has joked that the "Cuban model doesn't even work for us any more," the Atlantic magazine reported Wednesday.

Homosexual men in Europe are increasingly failing to adhere to safe sex, according to two new studies.

The rhetoric accompanying France's expulsions of Roma migrants is similar to that used by the Nazis, a senior European official said Wednesday, prompting an angry response from Paris.

A tunnel being drilled to the trapped Chilean miners is making remarkably quick progress, but officials stuck Wednesday to the rescue target of between early November and early December.

A spurned American wife has won $5.9 million Cdn in compensation from the woman who broke up her marriage.

A "learn to anticipate" ad campaign, created by the French office of a New York agency for a Paris-based weekly newspaper, is being denounced as grossly insensitive for its exploitation of the 9/11 terror tragedy just days before the event's anniversary.

Imam Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, emerged Wednesday from a meeting with the Rev. Terry Jones and said he was hopeful that the fervently anti-Islam church leader would call off plans to burn copies of the Qur'an on Saturday's anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

British psychologists have discovered the dance moves that make men attractive to women — it's more about how they move their neck and trunk than fancy footwork.

Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar said on Wednesday his fighters were close to victory in driving foreign forces out of Afghanistan, flouting claims of progress against the militants by the top military commander there.

British television host Piers Morgan will replace talk-show host Larry King on CNN's prime-time lineup in January, the network said on Wednesday.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon met Rwanda's president here Wednesday in a bid to defuse his government's anger over allegations contained in a UN report that Rwandan forces committed war crimes in DR Congo.

A Russian passenger plane carrying 81 people made a "miracle" crash landing at a deserted air strip deep in the Siberian taiga after a complete mid-flight power failure, officials said Wednesday.

Nine Portuguese tourists were killed and 14 injured when their tour bus plunged into a ravine in northern Morocco on Wednesday, the interior ministry said.

A BP Plc investigation of the Gulf of Mexico disaster played down the company's role in the world's worst offshore oil spill, seeking to share the blame with its contractors.

Iranian authorities have suspended the sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

Thousands of homes remained without power Wednesday morning following a night of raging fires that jumped from house to house on Detroit's east side Tuesday night.

A tiny Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Qu'ran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks has triggered fears within the White House of a violent backlash against American troops overseas.