A 6.5 magnitude earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday killing at least two people and knocking out power in the capital. The quake, which struck the...
At least 13 people were killed, including two children after small plane has crashed in the Philippines into a school building in Paranaque near...
Over 25,000 protesters have gathered so far in Moscow in a show of anger over disputed parliamentary polls. The opposition says the protest - on...
Ross Truett Ashley, a Radford University student, has been identified as the gunman who shot a Virginia Tech police officer and then turned the...
Indian officials say at least 73 people have been killed in a fire that broke out in a hospital in the city of Calcutta...
Virginia Tech campus is on lockdown after two people - including a police officer - are shot dead by a crazed gunman who went...
Five people, including a pilot, died after a Sundance helicopter crashed Wednesday afternoon during a tour of Las Vegas and the Hoover Dam. According to...
Wednesday in the afternoon, Jerry Sandusky left his home in handcuffs after prosecutors filed amid startling new testimony has emerged from one of his...
At least 54 people have been killed after a bomb exploded at a packed mosque in Afghanistan as people celebrated a major Shi'ite festival...
Last night a gunman went on the rampage in Bayonne, New Jersey, killing three people, including a baby, and then himself in an apparent...
At least 13 people have been injured, including two in critical condition, after thousands of fans stormed the field and tore down goalposts after...
Herman Cain, one of the US presidential hopefuls, announced he is suspending his campaign for the Republican nomination. Herman Cain blamed political and media pressure...
Dominick Chilcott, the British ambassador in Iran claims the ruling regime at Tehran is likely to have supported an attack on the UK's embassy...
The European Union has agreed on new sanctions on 180 Iranian officials and firms over Tehran's controversial nuclear programme. EU ministers meeting in Brussels also...
Iranian protesters in the capital, Tehran, have broken into the UK embassy compound during an anti-British demonstration, reports say. The protesters are said to be...
Bernie Fine, the Syracuse University basketball coach accused of sex abuse has been fired after damning new evidence suggested his wife watched him molest...
Wales manager Gary Speed was found hanged at his home in Cheshire. Gary speed, the former Leeds United, Everton, Newcastle and Bolton star, who appeared...
A new swine flu strain put U.S. health officials on alert for more cases after it was found in three children in Iowa this month. It...
Curiosity, the world's biggest extraterrestrial explorer has been launched today on a 354 million mile journey to Mars that hopes to discover whether the...
Three Europeans have been abducted and a fourth has been killed by an armed gang of kidnappers in the city of Timbuktu in northern...
At least five demonstrators have been shot dead by loyalists of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh during protests in the capital, Sanaa, reports say. People...
A family of six is feared dead after a plane crashed into Arizona' Superstition Mountains last night in a tragic Thanksgiving accident. After the crash,...
The European Space Agency (ESA) says it has finally contacted Phobos-Grunt, Russia's troubled Mars mission. ESA reports that its tracking station in Perth, Australia, picked...
Gregory Halman, baseball player at Seattle Mariners, has been stabbed to death in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Gregory Halman, 24, the Seattle Mariners outfielder, died in the...
Two people have been killed and more than 670 injured after protesters clashed yesterday with security forces in Cairo and Alexandria. The latest clashes came...