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Sydney - An audacious break-out attempt Sunday at a high-security facility in...
The Justice Department is keeping a close eye on the antitrust implications of the settlement...
Apple and the iPhone are too-large of a boon to chew for only one dog. The dog that has been...
Yahoo announced it will close the personal hosting site called GeoCities. The company announced in...
Hong Kong - Asia's richest woman signed a will giving away her entire...
Apple is getting close to serving its 1 billionth application through the App Store and...
Imagine signing in to check for new e-mails and finding out you don’t have an e-mail inbox...
Computer industry billionaire Bill Gates announced his intention to help the Chinese government...
New York City’s Empire State Building will go dark Saturday night as well...
London - Britain's Prince William has spoken of the "emptiness" he often feels about the...
Matt Groening’s “The Simpsons” feels like it’s been around since forever...
New York's semi-annual Fashion week proudly featured models styled as Mattel Inc's fashion icon...
Space experts said Friday that the first-ever collision between two satellites has created clouds...
Google Earth has ventured into new waters. Really, it got its feet wet.
The 5.0 version...
Sunday, when the Super Bowl was kicked off in Arizona, viewers were surprised to see more than they...
A recent report on a Microsoft partner blog has recently revealed that the Redmond giant...
Thursday, the “American Idol” show visited two cities in a single episode for...
Possibilities are being considered in an effort to stop the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University...
The symphonic music played at the presidential inauguration...
Monday night, at the Kids Inaugural concert, Michelle Obama shared the stage with Miley...
The discussions on Steve Jobs’ health appear to keep on going, as the interest on the...
It seems that the world financial crisis has begun to be quite menacing, as the other days Nortel...
The national board of the Screen Actors Guild seems to be determined to go ahead pressing on with...
The Golden Globe Awards are given annually to those who have contributed heavily to the scene of...
First of all, Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease with no known cure. Except for...
As the private memorial service has been held in Florida for John Travolta’s 16-year-old son...
The Twilight series is one of the most successful fantasy book series, coming close behind...
Final arrangements were made for Jett Travolta's private funeral service, which will be held in...
The Rainbow Room is one of the most famous and prominent restaurants and nightclubs in the United...
More than a year after the conclusion of the first season, “Damages” makes an...
Saturday, the Bahamas’ health minister announced that two pathologists would be used in...
As the new year approaches, above the southwestern horizon Venus is now dominating the sky at...
Tuesday, a United States astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut completed a five and a half hours...
Due to the recent rift between members of Hollywood's largest union, the Screen Actors Guild said...
Santa Claus – the chubby, cheerful, old man dressed in a red coat with white collar and...
When “American Idol” returns with a new season in January,
it will reveal several format changes...
The holidays are almost here, with Christmas being so close that many are actually feeling it....
Well, don’t expect to see the flag the Apollo
11 astronauts (allegedly)
left on the moon, but if...
Tokyo - Humanoid robot guides are being used at a shopping mall in the Japanese city of Osaka to...
Brussels - The European Union is to spend 55 million euros (70 million dollars) over the next five...
Martha Sharp Crawford von Bulow, known as Sunny von Bulow,
who spent the last 28 years of her life...
Los Angeles - Crime finally caught up with OJ Simpson Friday as the former American football star,...
A study
published Friday in the British journal BMJ, authored by Dr. Nicholas A.
Christakis, a...
Los Angeles - The battle of the super-dolls has been decided. Mattel, the world's largest toy...
Thursday, NASA announced they would be delaying their launch of a Mars robotic mission until 2011,...
Faith Williams, the baby girl that survived an emergency
surgery of separation from her baby...
The Harry Potter mania continues this week as adored British
writer J. K. Rowling releases “The...
Shingo, Japan - A blue-and-white signpost on a snowy village street points the way. After a long...
A tragic event shocked Tracy, San Francisco after a 17-year-old boy, severely bruised and beaten,...
Britney Spears announced on "Good Morning America" Tuesday, December 2, the dates for a...
A recent study completed at the University of Utah Applied
Cognition Lab reached the conclusion...
Following the brutal killings of Jennifer Hudson’s mother,
brother and nephew, William Balfour,...
Start
praying for a clear sky on Monday night, since Jupiter and Venus have begun
December in...
It seems that Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in our solar system, have been moving...
This holiday season brings you stellar entertainment of the sort you have never seen before, from...
There’s enough A-Rod to go around girls. The New York Yankees slugger knows best. He spent a great...
Television personality Brooke Burke has become the third
female participant on “Dancing with the...
Reese Witherspoon is one of Hollywood’s most beloved actresses, bringing her Southern charm to...
Social networking sites are the places where people should make new friends, exchange new,...
Cynthia Rodriguez accuses her soon-to-be ex-hubby, New York Yankees super slugger Alex Rodriguez of...
R&B singer Chris Brown was the big winner at this year’s American Music Awards on Sunday,...
Since its inception, Google’s Chrome browser has rapidly
evolved and fixed many of its nascent...
A large number of people close their eyes when it comes to getting tested for HIV, even though two...
Benji Madden is no longer Paris Hilton’s “love of my life.” The two split after nine months...
Genetic testing to see someone’s predisposition to type 2 diabetes
is not significantly better...
Although usually mocked and severely underestimated, online bullying is as real and as harmful as...
Even though
Sunday, Columbia Pictures proudly announced that the new James Bond movie “Quantum
of...
“Saturday Night Live” has outdone itself once more, this
weekend’s greatest hilarity coming from...
Comedian Wanda Sykes confessed that the passage of a same-sex marriage ban in California has led to...
For many years now, astronomers have given their best to
learn more about planets orbiting other...
This Friday, the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has scheduled the
launch of...
Yangon - A popular blogger who liked to post real-life stories of Myanmar people has been sentenced...
Britney Spears’ youngest son, Jayden James, is to be released from hospital on Tuesday, according...
A study publicized by U.S. researchers at an American Heart
Association meeting in New Orleans...
Los Angeles - In a matter of less than two seconds, Brandon Roy rode an emotional coaster before...
More than 71 million people tuned in for President-elect
Barack Obama’s historic win, which also...
Notorious best-seller writer Michael Crichton who wrote such novels as "The Andromeda...
In an event that happens roughly every ever year but is in
many cases unobservable due to...
A 1400 lb tank of liquid toxic ammonia, dubbed the Early
Ammonia Servicer (EAS), which was used...
Last night represented a tough moment for friends and family
of Jennifer Hudson’s slain mother,...
Arrangements for a memorial service in Chicago
in honor of the murdered mother, brother and nephew...
We don’t know yet whether Barack Obama’s much talked about
campaign ad was productive for his...
In a 30-minute campaign advertisement worth millions, Barack
Obama avoided to claim that he would...
The West Hollywood
homeowner who decorated his house with effigies of Republicans Sarah Palin...
Amy Poehler, the “Saturday Night Live” cast member who played Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, missed...
The Arkansas television anchorwoman brutally attacked in her own home and found unresponsive in bed...
"Today" Show coanchor Matt Lauer had never been to a roast before, but the Friars Club...
Mothers-to-be who are depressed during pregnancy
have a higher risk of premature delivery, a new...
Yesterday, Toni Braxton became the biggest celebrity to be voted off “Dancing With The Stars.” The...
Television networks usually fight tooth and nail for the position of “most watched network”. Buying...
Paris - The gap between the rich and the poor has widened in most industrial countries over the...
Curtains open, curtains close. Even for “Monty Python’s
Spamalot.” The multiple Tony Award-winning...
A recent national survey on the use of Internet, completed
by the Pew Internet & American Life...
In an effort to resolve the contract talks with the
Hollywood studios, the national board of the...
The U.S. space agency launches today a space probe that will keep an eye on the violence and...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its new standards for airborne lead particles....
The audience for David Letterman and John McCain's summit meeting was Late Show's biggest since...
Aurora, Illinois
– A medical helicopter transporting a girl to Chicago Hospital
crashed on...
Apart from the well-known and appreciated uses of the
Internet, there might be another one, as...
After receiving more than 3 million complaints, the Federal
Trade Commission (FTC) managed to...
AMD, Advanced Micro Devices, announced on Monday that the Department Of Justice has closed the...
On Sunday, a manatee that had been previously rescued from
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, waters died...
Supermodel Christie Brinkley was angered by the fact that her fourth ex-hubby Peter Cook broke...
John McCain may have disappointed David Letterman last month
when he didn’t show up for his...
Thursday, the fourth episode of the popular reality
television game show “Survivor,” which is...
As if the post-SNL media craze is not enough, with millions of views of Tina Fey’s “spot on”...
Christie Brinkley fights back. The super model has reportedly asked for a restraining order against...
Comedians Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman got back together. The two had split up in July after...
Spotted: a small
asteroid headed for Earth on early Tuesday morning.
One day
before, Harvard...
At the end of almost twenty years of hard work and high hopes, the Central Artery/Tunnel Project,...
AIDS first came to public notice in 1981 when US doctors noted an unusual cluster of deaths
among...
Arthritis’ drugs glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate might
no longer be prescribed as they proved...
The top two executives of Amerindo Investment Advisers Inc., Alberto Vilar, who is also recognized...
New York City’s mayor Michael Bloomberg is planning to seek a third term according to a report from...
Paul Newman’s good looks arouse urbanity, sophistication and
toughness. He shaped different...
Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson and Canadian actor Ryan
Reynolds inconspicuously tied the knot...
A Johnson & Johnson anemia drug tested in Germany on a panel of stroke patients is...
He was 83, but we thought he would always be around. After half a century of acting, directing and...
Young actor Daniel Radcliffe made his Broadway debut last
night, in the revival of Peter Shaffer’s...
Oranjemund, Namibia - The archeologists are into raptures about the close to 500-year-old shipwreck...
Bruce Ivins, the main suspect in anthrax
case sent himself an e-mail saying he new the identity of...
Stars may want to keep details concerning their sexuality
under wraps, but that doesn’t mean...
Being accused of illegally accessing close to 200
confidential passport files of several...
By far among the most entertaining broadcasts on Sunday night, yet way less interesting than last...
Sunday night’s Emmy Awards ceremony, telecast live on ABC
from the huge and yawning Nokia Theatre...
This year’s Emmy Awards ceremony is expected to be really frenzied,
as “Mad Men’s” nutty,...
After last week’s transformer failure, a new hardware
malfunction has stopped the LHC dead in its...
The fact that millions of Americans don’t have cable is well
known and that meant, for a long...
Los Angeles - Led by the most talked about comedian in the country, Tina Fey, the stars of the US...
Although Tina Fey made her brilliant performance as the GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin...
One of MTV's breakthrough shows, "Total Request Live," will be closing its doors ten...
Teens may sigh, but producers believe it’s the right thing
to do. After 10 years of “Total Request...
MTV heads announced their decision to rest “Total Request Live” after 10 years of broadcasting (a...
MTV’s “Total Request Live” lived for 10 years in the screams
of 14-year-olds. However, it’s time...
Munich - Every autumn the fragrance of malt and roasted almonds lingers over the Theresienwiese...
Los Angeles - The world of literature Monday was mourning American novelist David Foster Wallace,...
David Foster Wallace, the well-known novelist who recently passed away, will surely be missed by...
David Foster Wallace used his remarkable talent as a writer,
his frenzied, high-spirited writing...
The Virginia Supreme Court took an unexpected decision and overturned yesterday American AOL...
NASA was forced to close down the Johnson Space Center on
Thursday, under the threat of Category 2...
Lindsay Lohan opened up in Marie Claire’s October issue. Her apparently vague confessions may lead...
British supermodel Naomi Campbell revealed
her secret wish to have a child in an interview at a...
Tokyo - Japan needs a charismatic leader who has guts, tolerance and talent in policy...
Actor Morgan Freeman joins singer Barbra Streisand, Who
musicians Pete Townshend and Roger...
The latest study on breast cancer appears to question the efficiency
of an MRI or magnetic...
Sunday was the last day for Astroland, the amusement park on
Coney Island. Its owner, Carol Hill...
After weeks of speculation regarding Britney Spears’
performance at this year’s MTV Video Music...
"Rules of Engagement" star David Spade became a daddy.The comedian actor who became...
The New York Sun, a Manhattan daily newspaper launched six
years ago, might close at the end of...
Hit us, Britney, one more time! One year after a disastrous
so-called comeback performance at the...
The average wind speed of cyclones increased radically,
pushing up the average number of extreme...
Just when we thought that the browser battle will remain the
exclusive territory
of Firefox and...
The hurricane season appears to be constantly delaying NASA’s
plans of moving the shuttle Atlantis...
Carla Bruni, the wife of the French president, will appear
along with the hard rock band Metallica...
Rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was put under arrest and jailed Wednesday after he punched his...
Long-term exposure to burning incense could
put people at risk of cancers of the respiratory...
Charlie Sheen, the star of TV series “Two and a Half Men” is
expecting his fourth child, with...
Watch out, Angelina! Ex adult film star Jenna Jameson confirmed
she was expecting her first child...
Academy Award-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson has
been asked by presidential candidate...
Madonna launched her "Sweet and Sticky" tour in her own fashion - by creating a bit of...
The absolute star of hit U.S. television sitcom "Two
and a Half Men," Charlie Sheen,...
After a three-year long investigation conducted by the
National Institute of Standards and...
“The Hills” fourth season just commenced and drama already
started pouring. Luckily there’s Lauren...
It is sad to hear when people close to us are suffering from serious diseases, but the feeling...
The stand-up
comedian Bernie Mac died August 9 due to complications from pneumonia. He was
50...
Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised more
active involvement in the Space...
They finally got to do it! Successful talk show host Ellen
DeGeneres and her long time girlfriend,...
Two days ago, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, two American
hunters, claimed that they had...
The buzz created around Bigfoot’s recent discovery reached
unprecedented heights, especially due...
The complete 28-film lineup for the 46th New York
Film Festival was announced on Tuesday by the...
American Airline Inc. announced on Monday that it is joining
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a...
The friendship between Madonna and New York Yankees’ super star slugger Alex Rodriguez has been...
According to a study completed by the Pew Internet &
American Life Project, close to 50...
The body of a 24-year old woman was found Wednesday on the roof a club where rapper Lil' Kim held...
Federal prosecutors in New York have decided to close the
investigation into how actor Heath...
Comedian Bernie Mac may not be dead yet, but according to a source close to the funnyman's family,...
While actress Mary-Kate Olsen asked for immunity from prosecution before cooperating with the...
A new study carried out by Microsoft found that between any two individuals on the planet there is...
The man who managed to cause a general panic through his
video posted on YouTube, where he claimed...
After fourteen Boy Scouts and one adult contracted E. coli
infection while attending a popular...
Bruce E. Ivins, the US scientist who supposedly killed himself this week, “was going to go out in a...
Actress Christina Applegate, best known for playing Kelly Bundy on TV comedy “Married… With...
Harry Potter author JK Rowling delighted fans by announcing Thursday - her 43rd birthday - that a...
Lance Armstrong and Kate Hudson proved once again that
nothing is what it seems. After three...
Renowned American comedian Jerry Lewis was detained by
police in Las Vegas last week when...
The White House estimated Monday that President Bush would leave a record
$482 billion budget...
“It’s uncharted waters” is how Warner Bros. distribution
president Dan Fellman described the...
Republican Sen. John McCain announced on Monday that he had
had a small patch of skin removed from...
Anne Hathaway's diaries have been confiscated by the FBI during a raid at her ex-boyfriend's...
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie conceived their newly born twins in vitro according to a source close...
Finally, some more information is surfacing in the
surprising arrest of Christian Bale and it all...
On Tuesday, Gartner and IDC, two major IT research firms,
brought forward the results of a...
On Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention published the alarming results of...
Nintendo's Wii Music has been unleashed at the company's E3 press conference. The game challenges...
Medical comedy “Scrubs” never got to have its finale on its
home of seven years, NBC, but it will...
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan who
faces a historic...
A pizza restaurant clerk’s parents and husband planned and attempted to rob the place where the...
The vets from the Wildlife Center of Virginia near
Waynesboro managed to successfully complete a...
"Generation Kill," the HBO seven-part miniseries produced
by David Simon and Ed Burns,...
After being known for close to two years as Fake Steve Jobs,
Daniel Lyons, a former Forbes...
People.com is reporting that the nasty divorce trial between
former supermodel Christie Brinkley...
American pop singer and actress Jessica Simpson is reportedly very upset about the remarks made by...
The Moon, Earth’s only natural satellite, has always been
surrounded by an aura of mystery....
Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban welcomed their first
child Monday morning, a baby girl they...
It’s nice to see that celebrities don’t always go on fancy parties.
It’s even nicer when they go...
The NASA scientists
revealed, on Sunday, after analyzing a set of photos taken by the
Messenger...
Angelina Jolie’s gynecologist held a press conference on Wednesday during which he gave details...
Three days ago, two medical helicopters collided in
Flagstaff, Arizona, killing six people and...
Pregnant Angelina Jolie has checked into a hospital in Nice, France, ahead of the birth of her...
Gilbert Arenas is one-step away from accepting a six-year
offer from the Washington Wizards that...
Uma Thurman has reportedly gotten engaged to her wealthy Swiss financier beau Arpad...
It seems like finally Sony has decided to officially confirm its long-rumored movies download...
The highly anticipated release of the new
big-budget, big-screen version of the 1960’s "Get...
“Two and a Half Men” actor Charlie Sheen apologized for the inappropriate words he used in a...
Mary Tyler Moore will join Brooke Shields, Kim Raver and Lindsay Price in the second season of...
Superstar pop singer Britney Spears has a private jet in the vicinity of her home in Los Angeles so...
William Hurt and his “The Big Chill” co-star Glenn Close will be reunited on the second...
Christopher Ciccone, Madonna's brother, will publish a memoir called "Life With My Sister...
Almighty talk show host Oprah Winfrey is topping, for the second year straight, Forbes magazine's...
How many of those just learning of Google co- founder Sergey
Brin’s deposit of $5 million...
Acclaimed and controversial director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful sex with...
Softbank Mobile Corp and Telefonica Moviles Espana have
announced that they will make iPhone...
Nearly three years after the Hurricane Katrina made thousands
of victims, leaving thousands others...
A fire that broke out around 3 a.m. today managed to destroy
the historic James Hook & Co....
Microsoft decided to offer a demonstration of its new
Windows 7 operating system, with more than...
A wacky wily pirate made cinematic Memorial Day weekend history last year with the highest-grossing...
The trial of R. Kelly started with three days of explosive testimony. Facing up to 15 years behind...
Thursday the Brooklyn Bridge turned 125 years-old and its existence
was celebrated with the start...
Olympic champion Kristi Yamaguchi has confidently danced her way to the finale of Dancing with the...
Young David Archuleta has been closely supervised and encouraged by his dad, who calls himself a...
Health officials are trying to identify all persons who were
in close contact with the 26-year-old...
NBC is to officially confirm Jimmy Fallon’s move to “Late Night” during a news...
It appears Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are rushing to the aisle and will tie the knot next week...
Thursday was not the perfect day for swimming for Debbie Shoemaker of Toledo, Ohio. As she was...
Although the Bush administration has objected to the bill, saying it was too expensive, and the...
With the official release of GTA IV just hours away, the
reviews and previews have started pouring...
The founder of the Hells Angels motorcycle club has sued HBO
over an upcoming pilot he claims to...
It seems like everything around has become an enemy for our
health lately with reports indicating...
Veteran Disney animator Ollie Johnston, the last of the revered “Nine Old Men” who...
The Dallas VA Medical Center has decided to close its
psychiatric wing after a fourth mentally ill...
Paris Hilton is making a comeback in the reality TV business with a new show which was just...
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine studied the lyrics of hundreds of...
NBC Universal president and CEO Jeff Zucker laid it out nice and clear during his opening keynote...
Today, January 28, Lego is celebrating its 50th
anniversary and on this occasion Google has...
US television network ABC is facing a $1.4 million fine brought by the Federal Communications...
The Karibu Books chain which has been specializing in books for African Americans is closing down...
British singer Lily Allen suffered a miscarriage earlier this week, leaving her and boyfriend Ed...
George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna is said to marry her fiancé Henry Hager in a ceremony on May...
According to a report from Business
Week, the music giant Sony BMG will sell DRM free music some...
The New Year has brought its first major change for novelist Tom Wolfe: the end of a 40-year-long...
The National Film Registry added 25 more classic American films of great variety for preservation...
Yesterday was a very sad day for
Daniel M. Tani, one of NASA’s astronauts on board the...
Christie’s in New York held a wines and spirits auction this weekend and registered such...
Wildfires in Southern California have led to the scorching of acres of land and the evacuation of a...
Let Microsoft celebrate! As everyone has expected Halo 3 has
represented quite a huge success and...
Legendary hard-rock group Led Zeppelin is returning for a tribute concert: surviving members Robert...
David Letterman made a historical appearance on the 22nd season premiere of The Oprah Winfrey Show...
Astroland Amusement Park, open to the eager public since 1962, may soon close, as the property has...
Following weeks of speculation, MTV confirmed on Thursday that pop princess Britney Spears will be...
With Greece facing a nationwide state of emergency after the deadly fires that have killed 51...
The waited Spears – Timberlake duet proved to be nothing but
a bluff. According to reports in the...
Only if you are not on a well-deserved holiday, then you
certainly already know that the famous...
The hype surrounding “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” is lovely proof that...
The suspense is over! “Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows”,
the last and seventh book from the boy...
According to a report from the Danish tabloid BT a pirate
copy of the latest book in Harry Potter...
The US
space shuttle began its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere Friday. NASA
announced...
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Riyadh - Saudi Arabia will not bar pilgrims from countries that have reported cases of swine...
Paris - France has agreed to offer residency to a former prisoner in the controversial US...
As the death toll climbed to 152 in Mexico, countries around the world took steps to warn the...
Mexico City - The government of Mexico City banned eating in restaurants and ordered gyms, clubs,...
Mexico City - Mexico's entertainment industry, one of the few sectors that continued to defy the...
Los Angeles - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday that California was fully prepared to deal...
New Delhi - Indian health authorities sounded an alert after an outbreak of a...
Tank, Pakistan - Haneef Mehsud was a normal teenager who spend most of his time...
Soweto, South Africa - Voting was under way Wednesday in South Africa's fourth general election...
Buenos Aires (dpa) - The deaths in the United States of 21 polo horses belonging to the Venezuelan...
Tokyo - Japan's whaling fleet failed to achieve its target but still returned to...
Bogota - Colombian police arrested Wednesday Daniel Rendon, known with the alias "Don...
Nairobi/Washington - Somali pirates, holding a US ship captain in a lifeboat and surrounded by two...
L'Aquila, Italy - A state funeral for many of the victims of Monday's earthquake in Italy began...
Beijing - The Dalai Lama was a notable absentee on Friday as religious leaders...
London - Investigations into the recent murders of two soldiers and a police officer in Northern...
London - The private home of a top British banker at the centre of a heated row over lavish...
London - A former Guantanamo Bay detainee released two weeks ago Friday accused British...
Washington - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang...
Kampala - Recovery operations were still going on into the afternoon Monday after a Russian-built...
Hong Kong - For more than a week now a deadly tide has been washing out of...
Tair Herfa, Lebanon - A day after militants launched three Katyusha rockets from their village in...
Paris - He began life 80 years ago at the age of 15, and when his career ended nearly 50 years...
Madrid (dpa) - A year ago, 5-year-old Mari Luz Cortes left her home in the southern Spanish city of...
The Chinese government announced on Tuesday that a 19-year-old teenager girl from Beijing died of...
A Chinese woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation...
Kiev - Russia is screwing down on the natural gas taps to Ukraine, and as Kiev media spin would...
Berlin - European inflation plunged to its lowest level in more than two years in December, data...
Perth, Australia - Lleyton Hewitt made a resounding return after summer hip...
Islamabad - At least seven people, including five policemen, were killed and around two dozen...
Tel Aviv/Gaza - Israeli troops pushed further into the Gaza Strip Sunday morning, battling...
Kiev - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has - once again - delivered a maestro...
Geneva - In July, employees at a Geneva hotel decided to call the police to complain about the...
Berlin - For many, it was a first stopping-off point: a place where refugees could prepare for...
Gaza City - The streets of Gaza City are almost empty. After five days of ferocious Israeli...
Marrakesh - Marrakesh in Morocco is not only one of the most exhilarating cities in Africa -...
Vilnius - The year 2009 is a very special one for Lithuania and the capital Vilnius for a...
Gaza/Tel Aviv - Israel rejected calls by the United Nations and European Union for an...
Havana - Collapsed political systems, presidents who came and went, wars and attacks, broken...
Chetumal, Quintana Roo - The vast lagoons between Bacalar on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the...
Banda Aceh, Indonesia - Grass has covered the mass grave known as Kuburan Massal...
Madrid - For Maria G., a 40-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant in Madrid, it is a grim Christmas ahead....
Taipei - Forty years ago, then-president Chiang Kai-shek called on Taiwan's...
Nairobi - The war in Somalia, one of Africa's bloodiest ongoing conflicts, shows little sign of...
Zagreb - Ever since it broke off from Yugoslavia, Croatia tried hard to persuade others and itself...
Harare - President Robert Mugabe's once indomitable Zanu-PF party gathers on Thursday for its...
Kabul - Seven years down the line fighting terrorism in Afghanistan, the US government wants to...
Baghdad - On December 11 a lone male parked his car outside the Abdullah Restaurant, on the...
Beirut - The year 2008 saw Lebanon battling threats on two fronts: On one side the threat of civil...
Tehran - It was not the best of years for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
As 2008 drew to...
Islamabad - In 2008, Pakistan wobbled in its fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, who have...
Hamburg - An Afghan-born youth declined to testify Tuesday at his trial for the murder of his own...
New Delhi - The Indian Navy in another successful anti-piracy operation in the Gulf of Aden...
Mexico City - A pregnant woman was killed in a shoot-out at a military checkpoint in Aldama town in...
Beijing - Liu Xiaobo, a prominent Chinese human rights activist, has been detained by police for...
Vatican City - The Vatican announced Tuesday the retirement of Nigerian-born Cardinal Francis...
Potsdam, Germany - Some 63 years after the end of World War II, a German prince is trying to secure...
Wellington - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced Tuesday that he had ordered an air...
New Delhi - Investigations have shown those behind Mumbai terrorist attacks that left 188 people...
New Delhi - Authorities in India's north-eastern Assam state culled 40,000 poultry of some 60,000...
Azam Amir Kasab was the only terrorist to be captured alive
from the group that ran havoc through...
Islamabad - The terrorist attacks in Mumbai have strained the improving relations between India and...
Berlin - Inflation in the 15-member eurozone fell sharply in November and unemployment edged...
Belgrade - When web designer Petar Jakovljevic found a cramped two-bedroom apartment close to...
Bamyan, Afghanistan - Nowhere else in the eastern military command sector in Afghanistan do foreign...
Brussels - The head of the European Union's executive has an ambitious Christmas wish this year: he...
Warsaw - As the European Union seeks to slash greenhouse gas emissions, Polish coal miners are...
Beijing - China is already the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, according to some...
Riga - The Latvian government might have thought its announcement on November 20 that it was in...
A man wielding two samurai swords was shot and killed by a
security guard at the Church of...
Taipei - China's decision to allow Taiwan's former vice president Lien Chan to attend the APEC...
Moscow - A juror in the murder trial of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya on Thursday...
Kiev - A right-wing Ukrainian nationalist party on Thursday accused the Kremlin of complicity in...
Hamelin, Germany - The rats are back in Hamelin, where a legendary Pied Piper once rid the Germany...
London - A leading convicted member of the militant Basque separatist group ETA, who is wanted by...
Hanoi - Heavy rains that have caused 12 deaths in Vietnam's southern and central regions are making...
Johannesburg - Around 1,000 people gathered in northern Johannesburg on Saturday to pay their...
Geneva - The UN decided to put together a plan for the transfer of more than 60,000 displaced...
Nice, France - French President Nicolas Sarkozy continues with his efforts to end the...
New York - Government leaders attending the UN General Assembly debate on religion and peace on...
The CIA chief said that, according to the latest data on the issue, the al Qaeda terrorist...
London - Britain might send another 2,000 troops to Afghanistan in 2009 in an effort to respond to...
Bangkok - Thais from all walks of life and provinces near and far flocked to Bangkok's Sanam Luang...
Beijing - Today, Shares on China's two stock markets managed to get up by 3 percent.
The key...
Beirut - The Arab League decided to look into the circumstances surrounding several purported...
Wellington - Greenpeace, an international environmental organization, hailed the beginning of the...
Johannesburg - The body of South African singer and anti-apartheid icon, Miriam Makeba, arrived...
Seoul - North Korea threatened Wednesday to close its borders with South Korea starting December 1,...
Taiwan’s former President, Chen Shui-bian, was handcuffed as he left the prosecutor's office where...
Gorleben, Germany - Fierce protests accompanied the arrival of a shipment of radioactive waste at a...
Jerusalem - Israelis were going to the polls Tuesday to elect new city councils and mayors for...
Beijing - An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit China's remote north-western...
The three Indonesian militants executed on Sunday for the 2002 Bali bombings were buried. The...
Bangkok - Britain has revoked tourist visas for fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra...
London - The British Labour government and Conservative opposition Wednesday hailed as...
Berlin - German political leaders congratulated Barack Obama on his election success Wednesday with...
Islamabad- A suicide car bomber attacked a security checkpoint in north-western Pakistan on...
Madrid - During her 33 years as queen, Sofia of Spain had been known for her gentleness and...
Moscow - The presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to a peaceful solution to the...
Washington - The US raid against a top al-Qaeda operative this week in Syria was the latest effort...
Islamabad - A powerful earthquake rattled Pakistan's south-western Balochistan province on...
Seoul - North Korea's military threatened Monday to quit an industrial cooperation project if South...
Killer whales – or orcas – have been declared an endangered species since 2005, although they were...
Frankfurt - The euro plunged to a three-year low Friday, slipping below 1.25 dollars, amid...
Manila - A former senior police official caught with a huge amount of cash at an airport in Moscow...
Islamabad - A suspected US missile strike Thursday killed at least 8 people and wounded 6 others in...
Ljubljana - Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Slovenia on Tuesday for her first visit since the small...
The Antarctic wilderness is attracting a growing number of tourists keen to experience the icy...
Tehran - Leading reformists in Iran have urged former president Mohammad Khatami to run against...
Khost, Afghanistan - The young Texan woman talking to the Afghan tribesman wears a US military...
About 2,500 residents of four Butler County communities in western Pennsylvania were evacuated from...
Khost, Afghanistan - Less than six hours after a helicopter drops a combined US and Afghan army...
San Francisco - The wine was flowing, the band was blaring, and on the dance floor a Brazilian lady...
Brussels - NATO defence ministers meet on Thursday and Friday amid concerns that a "Vietnam...
Bangkok - Conflicts in Bangkok between police and protestors around Parliament claimed two dead and...
Bangkok - Thousands of followers of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) surrounded Parliament...
Colombo - At least 26 people were killed and 80 others injured in a suicide bomb attack in North...
Rome - Pope Benedict XVI marked the opening of a 20-day long gathering in Rome of the world's Roman...
Washington - Even if you can't go on an actual caribou hunt with Republican vice-presidential...
Harare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and pro- democracy leader Morgan Tsvangirai failed to...
San Francisco - About 70 searchers combed the area around the crash site of adventurer Steve...
San Francisco - The enigma of the disappearance of adventurer Steve Fossett moved closer to...
Baghdad - At least 13 persons were killed Thursday and another 49 were injured in a double suicide...
San Francisco - A new search was launched Wednesday for missing and presumed-dead adventurer Steve...
The tropical storm season is close to being over for the U.S. and its citizens. After Kyle gained...
Israel must withdraw from the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights,...
Vienna - Werner Faymann
relied on his charm, populist touch and some help from the media to emerge...
Berlin - Politicians in Germany warned Saturday of the
dangers posed by Islamists, following the...
Moscow/Orenburg, Russia - The Venezuelan and Russian presidents met in southern Russia Friday as...
Two Afghan intelligence agents and three civilian were
killed by a suicide bomber in eastern...
Cairo - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a pink granite head, believed to Portray that of...
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