As natural disaster batter the world's agricultural industry, fears are growing that we may be heading into the dark food crisis days of 2007 and...

Over 200 women and children have been raped by rebels in the Congo in recent weeks, according to UN...

A plane has crashed in the United Arab Emirates in the city of Dubai, it is unknown how many...

A US cartoonist's attempt to make a statement about the violence in Mexico backfired with his use of the Mexican flag and its national symbol, the Mexican...

A UN report on the rapes that took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was released on...

Christchurch residents are taking stock of the damage to their city following the major earthquake that struck in the early hours of Saturday morning with local officials calling the lack of fatalities a...

The Peruvian Amazon has suffered a major dry spell with the Amazon River's water levels dropping...

A popular medication for the prevention of osteoporosis doubles the chances of developing cancer, according to a recent UK...

A massive traffic jam has developed in China's Inner Mongolia on the Beijing Tibet Highway just days after another major snarl was...

Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, has asked people for more help in flood relief efforts in Pakistan, saying humanitarian needs should transcend international...

A Chicago dentist is paying for a new ad advocating that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton make a second presidential run in...

The machinegun used by Al Pacino's gangster character in the mafia movie 'Scarface' is likely to fetch 100,000 pounds at an auction in the...

A 106-year-old woman in Britain is not only a virgin, she has never ever been...

With the vacuum in the Pakistani leadership visible right from the onset of the flood tragedy, foot-soldiers of extremist organisations have rushed in where President Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif are reluctant to...

As the US lost 54,000 jobs last month, President Barack Obama promised a new package of ideas next week on job creation and lashed out at Republicans for blocking a legislation to help small...

'The biggest fireball ever seen' and a 'massive 20-storey tower of smoke and flames' was how witnesses described the crash of a Boeing 747-400 cargo plane in Dubai, in which two crew members were...

'Clear Blue Tuesday', a musical offering a unique perspective on the Sep 11, 2001 terror attack in New York was released here...

The landmark trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will resume Monday at the UN's Yugoslav war crimes court in the Hague after a brief...

Australian voters want the three independent MPs to support a Labor government led by incumbent Prime Minister Julia Gillard rather than join the opposition coalition, a survey said...

Around 280 fans were arrested amid violence around Friday evening's Euro 2012 qualifying match between Belgium and Germany, the German football federation DFB...

Lindsay Lohan can't steer clear of trouble. Just days after she was released from a jail and rehab stint, witnesses accused her Friday of hitting a baby stroller with her Maserati and then leaving the...

Victor Zamorano, one of 33 miners trapped 700 metres underground in northern Chile, sent a poem Friday to officials working to rescue...

More than 4,000 inmates of three Venezuelan jails went on a hunger strike in protest against alleged brutality by guards, judicial delays and overcrowding in...

Pop queen Janet Jackson is considering shunning record labels to release her own music, after finding herself without industry backing for the first time in her...

Hollywood actress Jessica Alba reveals motherhood has affected her choice of film...

Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore says that despite her good organisational skills behind the camera, her real life is a...

A state of emergency was declared Saturday after Christchurch, the biggest city in New Zealand's South Island, was extensively damaged by a massive 7.1-magnitude earthquake that flattened buildings, ripped up roads and cut power, water and sewage...

Hollywood actor Ben Affleck admits he is embarrassed by the first short film he directed, saying it looks as if it was made by someone with 'no...

At least 27 people were killed and 36 injured in two road accidents in northeast China Firday, authorities...

Australian lingerie model Miranda Kerr has shown off her baby bump in a new advertising campaign for her organic skincare...

At least 12 people died Friday when a bus crashed with a truck at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southeastern Mexico, the authorities...

The New Zealand city of Christchurch was extensively damaged early Saturday when it was hit by a massive 7.4-magnitude earthquake which flattened buildings, ripped up roads and cut power, water and sewage...

Rapper Snoop Dogg is eager to reunite with singer Katy Perry in the studio and has lined up the singer to appear on his next...

British singer Cheryl Cole's marriage to soccer ace Ashley was officially declared dead Friday, when they were granted a...

The UAE's exports to Saudi Arabia surpassed one billion Saudi riyals (about $266 million) in June, while Saudi exports to the UAE were valued at 961 million riyals, officials...

The crew of a Boeing 747 cargo plane are feared dead after the aircraft crashed on a road shortly after taking off from Dubai Friday, a media report...

Tsunami monitoring agencies said they had detected no destructive tsunami after a deep earthquake of 7.4 magnitude struck near New Zealand's South Island...

Hollywood legend Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband wants her body to be plastinated and put on show after she passes...

Singer Celine Dion has revealed her new fragrance is inspired by her...

Singer Lady Gaga was hospitalised six times last year because of her extreme dieting, which saw her lose as much as 20 pounds between fittings for...

A cargo plane crashed Friday evening in an uninhabited area in Dubai, media reports...

A Portuguese court Friday found six out of seven defendants guilty in a high-profile paedophilia case which has shocked the nation, and handed out prison sentences of up to 18...

A 64-year-old man who was building an underground house for his family has become a subject of a probe by authorities in China's Henan...

A police officer was killed and 30 people were injured Friday in a suicide car bomb attack at a police station in Tajikistan, officials...

A traffic jam more than 100 km long has formed in China just one week after gridlock led to tailbacks lasting 10 days northwest of...

India's Sania Mirza's run in the US Open tennis tournament ended with her losing in the first round of the women's doubles...

Divers have salvaged what is believed to be the world's oldest preserved beer from a 200-year-old shipwreck, the government of the semi-autonomous Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden said...

At least 76 people were killed and more than 160 injured in three powerful explosions in Pakistani cities Friday, two days after triple blasts ripped through a Shia religious procession in Lahore killing 35...

At least 73 people were killed and more than 150 injured in a blast that ripped through a procession taken out by the Shia community near Meezan chowk in Quetta, capital of Pakistan's Balochistan province, media reports...

The banned radical group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Friday claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide bomb attack in Quetta city, Xinhua...