A retired British couple snatched from their yacht last month by Somali pirates say they're afraid they could be killed within a week.

A Scottish man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday after he was convicted of gouging out his ex-girlfriend's eye, tossing it over an eighth-floor

A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave said she lost her insurance benefits after posting vacation photos on Facebook showing her at the beach, at a nightclub

American student Amanda Knox "coveted hatred" for the British roommate she is accused of murdering and "killed her to take revenge," a prosecutor told an

A British couple being held hostage by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday that they fear they will be killed or handed to a terrorist group

A top South Korean model who was a fixture at fashion week in Paris and London was found dead at her apartment in Paris, an official said Friday.

A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 16 people, including two children and a policeman, and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in

Ireland has 'thrown down the gauntlet' to France Thursday to replay a World Cup qualifier match after Les Bleus striker Thierry Henry handballed before a

British soldiers conducted house-to-house searches for those trapped by floods as deep as 8 feet.

A British man who said he strangled his wife during a nightmare about fighting off an intruder has been found not guilty in her death.

An Italian court is hearing final arguments in the trial of Knox and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of Meredith Kercher more

Representatives of six world powers urged Iran on Friday to accept a U.N. plan aimed at delaying its ability to build a nuclear weapon, as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog

A top South Korean model who was a fixture at fashion week in Paris and London was found dead at her apartment in Paris, an official said Friday.

A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least eight militants Friday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said.

A woman who was brutally attacked at a British nightclub successfully tracked down her attacker on Facebook after police said they had no leads.

A passenger plane overshot the runway Thursday, landing in hardened lava surrounding an airport in eastern Congo and injuring 20 people, a U.N.-run radio

One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection -- a 6th century reliquary containing what is revered as fragments of the cross on which

The effort to sign a new, multitrillion-dollar greenhouse gas reduction treaty in Copenhagen next month has hit a wall, but that isn't slowing down the United Nations.

Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading Al Qaeda's message to Muslims in the West.

Showing impatience with Iranian foot-dragging, President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and its allies are discussing possible new penalties against

Afghan President Hamid Karzai promised Thursday to prosecute corrupt officials and end a culture of impunity in an inauguration speech made under intense

A suicide bomber killed 19 people Thursday outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants fighting back

Ireland has 'thrown down the gauntlet' to France Thursday to replay a World Cup qualifier match after Les Bleus striker Thierry Henry handballed before a crucial goal, Sky News

For his critics, President Hamid Karzai's inaugural speech Thursday struck all the right notes — sober pledges to get tough on corruption and strengthen his

South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept

Israeli aircraft struck a weapons-manufacturing facility and two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, in response to recent rocket attacks on Israel, the

The United Nations detained an outspoken critic and booted her from their New York headquarters in what the human rights watchdog is calling an effort to silence her stand against

A department store in Japan has experimented with using a robot assistant to help handle the large volume of shoppers, according to the Telegraph.

Israel broke ground on a new housing complex for Jews in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, brushing off President Barack Obama's criticism that construction in the disputed part of the

Hillary Rodham Clinton, on her first trip to Afghanistan as U.S. secretary of state, said Wednesday that President Hamid Karzai's inauguration provides a new

French police believe they have averted a school massacre after arresting a 13-year-old computer games enthusiast who was apparently planning to shoot dead teachers who had given

Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months on Wednesday, but guards on board the U.S.-flagged cargo ship repelled the

Two teenage girls in the U.K. were found guilty Wednesday of causing the death of a vicar’s daughter who leapt from a window - but were told they have been forgiven by the dead

Murdered British student Meredith Kercher was arguing about money with suspect Amanda Knox minutes before she died, her convicted killer has claimed, Sky News

Iraq's election commission has halted preparations for a January vote after the country's Sunni Arab vice president vetoed part of an election law that paved the way for the poll,

Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months and were thwarted by private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship

Security forces increased patrols and helicopter flyovers in the Afghan capital Wednesday, bracing for possible militant attacks during the ceremony that will

Ladies, if you're looking to attract the right kind of attention from men, flash 40 percent of your skin.

Research for a new exhibition has found that Nazi Germany tried to remove Christ from Christmas using swastika tree ornaments, "Germanic" cookies and putting a

Ever wonder what it would feel like to be a hamster? Now you can find out. A hotel in Nantes, France, is offering people the chance to live like a rodent.

Pirates freed 36 crew members from a Spanish trawler Tuesday, and a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom. Spain's

An obscure law from the 1800s that is still on the books bans women from wearing pants in Paris, according to the Telegraph.

President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from hours of intense talks Tuesday determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial

A 90-year-old former member of the Nazi's SS has been charged with 58 counts of murder for the 1945 killings of Jewish forced laborers in Austria, authorities said Tuesday.

Seismologists said Tuesday an earthquake struck off Canada's Pacific coast province of British Columbia.

Pirates off the coast of Somalia have attacked two vessels, and at least one of those has been captured.

The employers of a research scientist who unmasked herself as a call girl-turned bestselling author are standing by her, saying that her past had nothing to do with her present

With their country in deep political crisis, Czechs took to the streets throughout the country Tuesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of

British forces should buy off potential Taliban recruits with "bags of gold", according to a new army field manual published yesterday.

Hours after saying that the burqa, the head-to-toe veil worn by some Muslim women, has no place in French society, President Nicolas Sarkozy backtracked saying

A promotion that was set to include tossing envelopes of cash from a bus turned violent after thousands of people turned up and the event had to be canceled

Gunmen killed at least 13 people in a Sunni village west of Baghdad, dumping their bullet-riddled bodies in a cemetery, Iraqi security officials said Monday.

A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.

There's nothing to fear from a little criticism. President Barack Obama is making that point today to Chinese leaders, as he urges them to stop censoring

The United Nations nuclear agency announced that Iran will start up its once-secret nuclear facility outside the holy city of Qom in 2011.

The Palestinians have asked the European Union to support their plan to ask the U.N. to recognize an independent Palestinian state without Israeli consent.

Gunmen killed at least 13 people in a Sunni village west of Baghdad, dumping their bullet-riddled bodies in a cemetery, Iraqi security officials said Monday.

Insurgents fired two rockets Monday into a crowded market northeast of Kabul where the head of French forces in Afghanistan was holding a meeting with tribal elders. The attack

President Barack Obama is walking a tightrope on his first trip to China, seeking to enlist help in tackling urgent global problems while weighing when and how

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday threatened to retaliate if Palestinians declare a unilateral state, saying such a move would unravel

The United States is limiting its goals in Afghanistan and demanding better accountability from that country's underperforming leader, Secretary of State

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia in past centuries with the promise of a better

Paraguayan authorities say 1,500 people have escaped a fire that destroyed a supermarket on the outskirts of the capital, killing two people.

More than 60 albinos in Tanzania and Burundi have been killed in the past year by witchdoctors, who make potions from the body parts of people with the

Iran on Sunday denounced as 'disgraceful' U.S. moves to seize four mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by a Muslim nonprofit organization suspected of

President Barack Obama on Sunday told Myanmar's junta to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an unusual face-to-face interaction with a top

President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States and Russia would have a replacement treaty on reducing nuclear arms ready for approval by year's end, an

Police captured one of Sicily's top Mafia fugitives on Sunday, dealing a stiff blow to the island's Cosa Nostra crime syndicate, Italian officials said.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya insisted late Saturday that he will not accept any deal to restore him to office if it means he must recognize

Iran on Sunday denounced as 'disgraceful' U.S. moves to seize four mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by a Muslim nonprofit organization suspected of

Palestinian officials said Sunday they are preparing to ask the United Nations to endorse an independent state without Israel's consent because they are losing faith in the peace

A police official says more than a dozen militants opened fire on the house of an anti-Taliban mayor in northwestern Pakistan. Security guards repelled the attack, killing three

With a solemn ceremony in Stockholm's antiquities museum, Sweden on Saturday marked the return of 22 skulls looted from a native Hawaiian community mainly in the 17th century.

India's eunuchs and transsexuals have won a long-running campaign to be listed as "others," distinct from males and females, on electoral rolls and voter

Iraqi civilians who were detained by British troops during the U.S.-led war have leveled some 33 allegations of rape and abuse against male and female

Iran has formed a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a clear attack on an opposition that relies almost exclusively on online

Two people in China who received swine flu vaccinations died in the past week but at least one death appears unrelated to the vaccine and the other was being

President Barack Obama pressed on with his mission to repair America's global standing, telling Asians he was determined to engage them as equal partners in

Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances as part of the Communist party's efforts to clamp down on the corruption that

A British woman who trapped her pedophile husband by posing as a teenage girl on the internet has been praised by a children's charity, Sky News reported.

Iran has formed a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a clear attack on an opposition that relies almost exclusively on online means to broadcast its

The Ministry of Defense is investigating fresh allegations of abuse by the U.K. military in Iraq, The London Times reported.

A speeding train derailed in western India early Saturday killing at least nine people and injuring more than 80 others.

President Barack Obama declared Saturday that an era of American disengagement in the globe's fastest-growing region is over and warned that the U.S. and its

The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing Friday that wounded six people near the Afghan capital, while Britain's prime minister suggested 5,000

A British judge has ruled that a boy attacked by another toddler with a car jack can claim compensation from a government body that helps crime victims.

Britain's prime minister says NATO nations may contribute 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan -- offering key backing as the U.S. decides whether to increase troop levels.

North Korea warned Friday that it will mercilessly defend itself in disputed waters where a bloody naval clash with rival South Korea took place this week,

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya accused the U.S. government Thursday of weakening and changing course in the conflict over the June 28 coup that saw

A homicide car bomber attempting to strike an international military convoy on the outskirts of Kabul wounded at least 19 people Friday, including nine NATO service members, on a

A wife who suspected her husband was soliciting online sex from underage girls busted him after posing as a teenage girl herself.

A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and striking at the heart of the institution overseeing much

The world's tallest living man has unveiled the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea outlet in Norway's capital, Oslo.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday vowed support for the Philippine fight against al-Qaida-linked militants and highlighted the U.S.

Police say they have evacuated 3,000 people in Wroclaw, a city in southwestern Poland, after discovering a World War II-era bomb.

Iran's recently revealed uranium enrichment hall is a highly fortified underground space that appears too small to house a civilian nuclear program, but large enough to serve for

Facing what government officials call a 'critical' energy shortage, Cuba has ordered its state enterprises to take 'extreme measures' to cut back its fuel consumption through the

British Airways has confirmed its board is holding a meeting to consider a potential merger deal with Spanish airline Iberia, Sky News reported.