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...

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

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...

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...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Friday 'strongly condemned' the bomb attacks in which scores of people were killed this week in Pakistan's cities of Quetta and...

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

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...

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...

At least 54 people were killed and more than 100 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...

Indian documentary filmmaker Vijay Kumar, arrested in Houston for allegedly carrying 'jihadist' literature and brass knuckles in his checked baggage, will remain behind bars without bail but can leave 'voluntarily' if his case is resolved within 120...

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday strongly condemned the suicide bomb attack in Quetta city that left 40 people dead and over 100...

Charlie Watts, the drummer for the legendary rock group The Rolling Stones, told a French newspaper that the group was considering going on tour in 2012 to celebrate their 50 years of its...

Champion swimmer Leisel Jones of Australia is more excited than apprehensive about competing in the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games because she feels that last minute work is not a new thing in big sporting...

At least 43 people were killed in powerful explosions in three different cities in Pakistan Friday, two days after triple blasts ripped through a Shia religious procession in Lahore killing 35...

At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured when a powerful blast ripped through a Shia procession in Pakistan's Quetta city Friday, two days after a similar attack killed 35 people in...

Twenty-five people were injured Friday in a suicide car bomb attack on a police building in Tajikistan, an interior ministry spokesman...

Formula baby milk can have 40 times more aluminium than breast milk -- which may have an adverse affect on...

At least 13 people were killed in a powerful explosion that ripped through a procession taken out by the Shia community in Pakistan's Quetta city Friday, media reports...

Four people were killed after a bloody altercation took place over a 1 yuan (US 15 cents) parking charge in China's Yangpu...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that this week's Mideast peace talks as well as Israel itself were 'doomed to collapse' as millions of Iranians were expected to turn out for state-organised anti-Israel...

Over 150,000 rampaging wild boars in a province in eastern China are giving sleepless nights to farmers who have been forced to maintain round-the-clock vigil to save their...