South Africans voted on Wednesday in municipal elections in which squalid, open toilets built for the poor have become ...
An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter Scale hit Solomon Islands at 2:37 a.m. Beijing Time Monday, according to ...
The last two operating reactors of Japan`s Hamaoka nuclear power plant were shut on Saturday down over fears of a ...
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake shook Costa Rica on Friday, alarming residents of the Central American country and causing ...
A deranged knifeman decapitated a British woman in a supermarket on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife on Friday ...
One serviceman and three militants were killed in a clash in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Sunday, where ...
At least seven people were killed in new violence in Iraq on Wednesday, including three civilians in roadside bombings ...
Singer Mariah Carey on Saturday gave birth to twins, delivering a boy and a girl on the third anniversary of her ...
German police arrested three suspected members of al Qaeda on Friday, federal prosecutors said, and the newspaper Bild ...
Prince William will wear the red uniform of Colonel of the Irish Guards when he marries girlfriend Kate Middleton on ...
Hundreds of Syrian women and children have crossed into northern Lebanon, fleeing gunfire on the Syrian side of the ...
A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims inside a mosque in the central Iraqi town of ...
A car bomb Thursday killed five people in north Iraq, including a senior police officer, while gunmen shot dead a ...
Heavy explosions late Sunday shook the centre of Tripoli as warplanes overflew the Libyan capital, AFP journalists ...
The United States carried out its first drone strike in Libya on Saturday, the Pentagon said, two days after approving ...