A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand's South Island in the early hours of the morning causing some panic but no immediate reports of...

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in the south of Afghanistan after touching down on...

Miami police swooped on the main airport on Friday when screeners detected a suspicious article in a checked...

25 or more people have died in a gunfight between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug gang members near the northern Mexican city of...

Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu has said it is time to finalize a deal on the Middle East peace...

Two pilots were killed Friday when a Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed on a road just two minutes after it took off from Dubai airport, police...

A US general has revealed the Taliban in Afghanistan are very short of money with their drug labs and supply routes under pressure from US...

The relief effort in the area hit by floods in Pakistan may be helped by a new request for Muslims to tithe for the aid...

A new book written by famous British physicist, Stephen Hawking, claims that God did not create the universe and the "big bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of...

A fuel tanker is aground on a sandbar in Canada’s far...

Another Gulf coast rig has caught fire, causing the United States Coast Guard to scramble into...

A twelve-year-old girl, riding in a car which was driving through Tapuach Junction in the West Bank, has been hit with a stone which came through the...

Mexico that there's a lot of violence going on and we don't want that going into Arizona."She said she was referring to beheadings and other cartel-related violence...

WELLINGTON, Sept 4, 2010 (AFP) - - Three people died when a plane crashed at a popular New Zealand tourist attraction Saturday, medical officials said.The plane went down near the airstrip at Fox...

UNITED NATIONS — With memories still fresh of food riots set off by spiking prices just two years ago, agricultural experts on Friday cast a wary eye on the steep rise in the cost of wheat...

South Korea for a long time without knowing Wanju, an obscure county 112 miles south of Seoul. And, at least until recently, a person could know a lot about Wanju without ever hearing of Cha Sa-soon,...

When the respected German director Peter Stein withdrew in July from a major production of Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” at...

OAXACA, Mexico (AP) — A plane crash in southern Mexico killed all six people on board Friday, including two federal legislators and two...

Now that conservatives had their shot, October 2 represents an opportunity for progressives to come to the nation's capital and rally their...

London, England (CNN) -- Religious leaders in Britain on Friday hit back at claims by leading physicist Stephen Hawking that God had no role in the creation of the...

OAXACA, Mexico - Two members of Mexico's Congress were among six people killed on Friday when their private plane crashed near a popular Mexican Pacific beach resort, officials said.Guillermo...

Labour leadership challenger Ed Miliband has dismissed ex-PM Tony Blair's advice not to move a "millimeter" away from New Labour. A YouGov poll commissioned by Mr Miliband's...

7 days 7 questions It's the Magazine's 7 days 7 questions weekly quiz - a chance to find out how much news from the past week you've read, heard and watched... and how much has stayed lodged in the...

Now we - along with millions of internet users around the world - know why. The controversial Republican's performance in a debate with gubernatorial rivals has become a cringe-worthy hit and a...

OAXACA, Mexico (Reuters) - Two members of Mexico's Congress were among six people killed on Friday when their private plane crashed near a popular Mexican Pacific beach resort, officials...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities declared a state of emergency after a major earthquake hit New Zealand's second biggest city, Christchurch, early on Saturday, bringing down power lines, ripping up...

HYANNIS, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Earl churned toward the Massachusetts coast on Friday, en route to Canada's Maritime provinces, after slapping North...

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 54 people in the second major attack this week and piling pressure on a...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. government inspectors found no leaking oil at Mariner Energy Inc's burned platform in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said late on Friday, allaying fears about more...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Friday it was the target of an investigation by the Texas Attorney General's office into the fairness of its search engine...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors in Gabriel Capital LP, a so-called feeder fund that funneled money to imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff, were awarded $12.74 million by a panel of three arbitrators,...

A 7.0 magnitude quake has caused severe damage in New Zealand's second largest city. But, CBS News' Ben Tracy reports that injuries were limited due to several...

Idol May Get All New Judges Erica Hill spoke with Maxim Editor in Chief Joe Levy about rumors that every judge on American Idol will be leaving the...

No one would have blamed Cole Hamels for skipping the 24-hour trip to Denver on Thursday. The pitcher was starting Friday's game, so he could have flown home ahead of the Phillies for a good night's...

Brandon McManus kicked a 43-yard field goal with 8 seconds left to lift Temple to a 31-24 win over defending FCS national champion Villanova on Friday night. Justin Gildea scored on a 26-yard fumble...

President Obama informed Cory Etchberger, the son of Richard Etchberger, above, that his father would finally receive the Medal of Honor. (Source: Air Force Enlisted Heritage Research...

Q: I have an issue with my husband that I really don't know how to handle. First, let me say that he is in his 50s.Before we went out to dinner one night, I caught him staring out the window at my...

The Eagles have acquired Cardinals guard Reggie Wells for a sixth-round draft pick in 2011. Wells, entering his eighth NFL season, started all 16 games for a prolific Cardinals offense in five of...

WHEN IT COMES to dining at one of the best restaurants in Philadelphia, membership really does have its privileges. That's because 1862 by Martin Hamann is only open to 3,200 people and their...

Blackwater Worldwide created a web of more than 30 shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in American government contracts after the security company came under intense...

Chilling new details of this week's hostage drama at the Discovery Channel's Maryland headquarters were revealed Friday in a series of 911 recordings released by police. In emergency calls made to...

The man who tried to break into Paris Hilton's home armed with two large knives pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles Friday to a felony count of attempted residential burglary, RadarOnline...

Hizbullah has an arsenal of approximately 15,000 rockets amassed on Lebanon's border with Israel, including some with a long enough range to hit the southern city of Eilat, US envoy Michael Oren told...

LISBON, Sep 3, 2010 (IPS) - A trial that dragged on for six years amidst public outrage ended Friday in Portugal with the unexpected sentencing of prominent personalities, found guilty in a child sex...

Two Mexican federal lawmakers and at least three others have died when their small plane crashed in southern Mexico. First police reports said seven people had died in the crash near the Pacific...

DUBAI - A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said. The state news agency WAM, quoting the General Civil Aviation Authority,...

Shock horror: bored doctor's wife becomes a Bunny Girl at the age of 154. Playboy magazine's literary "Playmate of the Month" is Madame Bovary, the naughty doctor's wife from a small...

In an embarrassing blow to India's sporting hopes a month before it hosts the Commonwealth Games, eight of its athletes have been suspended after failing drugs tests. Five were to have competed in...