BERLIN (AFP) – Germany on Monday announced plans to become the first major industralised power to shut down all its nuclear plants, with a phase-out due to be wrapped up by 2022, the government agreed Monday.

Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen announced the decision by the centre-right coalition, which was prompted by the Japan nuclear disaster, in the early hours of Monday morning, describing it as "irreversible".

He said the vast majority of Germany's 17…

A row over how much to pay the head of the National Crime Agency (NCA) is delaying the launch of the government's strategy to tackle organised crime.

Details of the agency, the UK's equivalent of the FBI, were expected to be…

Serbia - Mladic, the wartime Bosnian Serb military chief wanted for genocide for Europe's worst massacre of civilians since World War II, was the U.N. war crimes tribunal's No. 1 fugitive has been captured by UN officials and taken in to custody on Thursday.

Mladic, now 69, is known for personally leading his troops in the 1995 Serb onslaught against the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica where thousands of Muslim men and boys were killed.  Mladic was indicted for…

Earlier this week, the FBI trumpeted the news that violent crime dropped 5.5% in 2010 while reported property crimes fell 2.8% during the depths of the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression. The news, though, is far from positive.

Though most regions of the U.S. saw declines, the Northeast saw an increase in murders (8.3%), forcible rapes (1.4%) and aggravated assaults (0.7%). Why that region was affected by crime more than others isn't clear. Perhaps it…

Soon after being officially appointed caretaker chief of the terrorist group, c vowed to avenge the death of his former leader.

"Our new leader has asked for a big plan for London," Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said.

"He believes the UK is the backbone of Europe and must be crushed."

Taliban and al-Qa'ida leaders met near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border last week to confirm the new role for al-Adel, 51, (pictured) who was once bin Laden's security…

WASHINGTON –  (AP) The FBI has a fingerprint and forensic evidence linking Al Qaeda's top bomb maker in Yemen to a trio of explosive devices used in recent attacks on the United States, tangible reminders that Usama bin Laden's death has not eliminated the threat from the group's most active and dangerous…

AP - MEXICO CITY — Mexican federal police captured a leading member of the Gulf drug cartel Friday at what appeared to have been his birthday party, authorities said.

Gilberto Barragan Balderas "is considered one of the main leaders of the Gulf Cartel" and is the subject of a $5 million reward by the U.S. Drug Enforcement…

(Reuters) - A leading specialist on al Qaeda said on…

Parliamentary leaders and representatives from 26 nations and groups ended the G20 Speakers' Consultation 2011 in Seoul, South Korea on Friday.



In a joint communiqué adopted by the leaders at the end of the three-day gathering, they pledged to fight against any form of terrorism and to pursue nuclear safety.



The Speakers' Consultation chairman, South Korean parliamentary…

Turns out it's not just news organizations that are grappling with proper Twitter etiquette for their…

The Force Reconnaissance Companies (abbreviated as either 'Force Recon' or FORECON), are one of the United States Marine Corps's…