Nigerian people and trade unionists have condemned the government for withdrawing a fuel price subsidy which has led petrol prices to more than double...
A manhunt is under way for an Iraq war veteran wanted in connection with the murder of a female ranger at Mount Rainier National...
A 7 magnitude earthquake hit eastern and northeastern Japan today, but there are no immediate reports of injuries or damage and no danger of...
A man has been detained at Midland International Airport in Texas, after he tried to carry explosives through security, according to officials. The man was...
The abbot of the prestigious Vatopedi monastery in Mount Athos, Greece has been imprisoned pending trial for alleged fraud and embezzlement. Archimandrite Ephraim, 56, is...
The Pacific island of Samoa has moved 24 hours into the future, making its nation the first to see in 2012. People began celebrating as...
An arsonist struck across Hollywood on Friday early in the morning, torching vehicles and setting homes ablaze in 19 separate fires over a four-hour...
At least 13 people have been killed and another 13 were injured after a petrol tanker crashed bursting into flames and engulfing seven cars...
17 South Sudanese civilians have been killed during air raids by Sudan's military, an official said. South Sudan's military spokesman Philip Aguer said those killed...
The Russian Soyuz rocket system has been pressed back into service, five days after a failed launch. The vehicle successfully put six spacecraft in orbit...
Thousands of people have rallied this evening in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh against ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremism. Today protest follows two days of clashes...
A series of bomb attacks in Nigeria, including two during Christmas Mass services at Catholic churches, killed 40 people and left many others injured. The Islamist...
Tens of thousands of people gathered in central Moscow to protest against Vladimir Putin and the alleged electoral fraud. The protesters passed a resolution "not...
At least 44 people have been killed and more than 150 injured in twin suicide car bombings in Damascus, Syria, officials say. State television said...
At least 63 people have been killed and around 185 injured in a wave of apparently co-ordinated bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad,...
Greenhill & Co investment banker Jeffrey Buckalew, his wife and his children are believed to be among five people killed after a small aircraft...
Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader, has died at the age of 69, state-run television has announced. Kim Jong-il, who has led the communist nation...
Václav Havel, the former Czech president and dissident playwright, who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a...
At least four people are dead and about 50 are missing after a Russian oil drilling rig sank in freezing seas in the Sea...
Barefoot singer Cesaria Evora died Saturday in a hospital in Cape Verde, said Minister of Culture of Cape Verde, Mario Lucio Sousa. Cesaria Evora, the...
More than 430 people have been killed and many more missing in recent flash floods triggered by typhoon Washi in the southern Philippines, officials say. Many...
Russia's Federal Customs Service found radioactive material in the luggage of a passenger bound for Iran - at Moscow's Sheremetyevo international airport. Federal Customs Service...
Indian police say at least 48 people have died after consuming toxic alcohol in country's West Bengal state. Several residents of the Magrahat, Usthi and...
Four people have been killed and at least 75 were injured during a grenade attack in a Christmas shopping area in Liege, Belgium. The shoppers,...
Four US soldiers have been killed when two helicopters crashed on a training exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, reports quoting a military...