Tens of thousands of people are attending the funeral of Rafael Ramos, one of the two New York policemen shot dead a week ago. VP...
Dustin Diamond has been charged with stabbing a man in a bar fight. The actor is best known for playing Screech in Saved by the...
Yoon Mi-rae has threatened to sue Sony Pictures Entertainment for using one of her songs in the controversial movie The Interview without permission, according...
Adam Sandler has topped Forbes' Most Overpaid Actor List for a second year in a row. Adam Sandler came ahead of Johnny Depp and Ben...
North Korea has berated President Barack Obama over the release of The Interview movie in the US. The Interview is about a fictional plot to...
Exodus: Gods and Kings has been banned in Egypt because of what censors described as "historical inaccuracies". The head of the censorship board said these...
Whilst presents and family are all well and good, we all know that the real star of the festive season is Christmas dinner. Sure,...
Indonesia and other nations are holding memorial services for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on the 10th anniversary of the disaster. In Indonesia's...
Belgian PM Charles Michel has been attacked with french fries and squirted with mayonnaise by anti-austerity activists. “Michel out, austerity out,” cried the four activists...
The Italian anti-trust authority has fined travel website TripAdvisor €500,000 ($625,000) for publishing misleading information in its reviews. The competition watchdog began a seven-month investigation...
The Ebola vaccine trial in Africa shows promising initial results, according to a report in the Lancet medical journal. Scientists say it is a crucial...
In a pre-Christmas address to cardinals, Pope Francis has sharply criticized the Vatican bureaucracy, complaining of "spiritual Alzheimer's" and "the terrorism of gossip". The pontiff...
North Korea's human rights record is being discussed by the UN Security Council, despite opposition from China and Russia. It comes days after the UN...
Joe Cocker has died from pulmonary cancer at the age of 70. The Sheffield-born singer had a career lasting more than 40 years, with hits...
Beji Caid Essebsi has been confirmed as winner of Tunisia's first free presidential poll. The veteran politician secured 55.68% of the vote in Sunday's run-off,...
China is investigating former President Hu Jintao's most senior aide, Ling Jihua, state media report. Ling Jihua is accused of "disciplinary violations", Xinhua news agency...
The US is considering putting North Korea back on its list of terrorism sponsors after the hacking of Sony Pictures, President Barack Obama has...
Elton John married his long-term partner David Furnish in a ceremony at Windsor estate in Berkshire, the UK. A number of stars attended the ceremony....
December 21 is the shortest day of 2014 in the northern hemisphere. The moment is marked at 22:03 GMT by an astronomical phenomenon known as...
Tunisia is choosing its first freely elected president in a run-off election seen as a landmark in the country's move to democracy. Secular-leaning Nidaa Tounes...
The US insists to reject North Korea's claim that it was not responsible for Sony Pictures cyber-attack. North Korea strongly denies carrying out the attack...
Muhammad Ali has been hospitalized with a mild case of pneumonia, his spokesman says. The 72-year-old former three-time heavyweight champion boxer, who suffers from Parkinson's...
Mersane Warria have been charged with the murder of seven of her children and her niece in the Australian city of Cairns. Mersane Warria, 37,...
An armed opened fire and shot dead two police officers sitting inside a patrol car in New York City before killing himself. Two New York...
Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein has died after a confrontation with Israeli troops at a protest in the West Bank. Ziad Abu Ein had died...
Former President Aleksander Kwasniewski has acknowledged Poland let the CIA run a secret prison on its territory following 9/11. Aleksander Kwasniewski insisted he had not...
Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi have received the Nobel Peace Prize awards. The Nobel committee described both laureates as "champions of...
Human rights groups and the United Nations have called for the prosecution of US officials involved in what a Senate report called the "brutal"...
Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov has revealed that he bought James Watson's Nobel Prize gold medal, and intends to return it to him. Steel and telecoms...
Prince William and Kate Middleton met LeBron James in New York on December 8 after watching a basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and...
Mutant Giant Spider Dog, a short film featuring a dog in a tarantula costume, was the biggest "trending" video on YouTube in 2014, Google...
President Barack Obama has written a line of computer code to help animate a character from Frozen animated movie. Barack Obama joined a group of...