Around one million people have been evacuated from the Chinese city of Beichuan for fear that a dam may burst....

A reported plot against the life of Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has postponed his return from Europe and South Africa where he had been in exile for a...

In Italy, angry residents of the city of Naples have set fire to the piles of uncollected rubbish lying in the streets....

Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama has lashed out at President George Bush for suggesting the Illinois senator would appease...

Freed Austrian dungeon boys Stefan and Felix Fritzl have taken their first ever steps in the outside world....

An Australian opposition party member has suggested a regime change in Myanmar if the generals continue to let the humanitarian crisis...

US President George Bush's request for Saudi Arabia to produce more oil has been rejected....

The Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has accused European states of overturning the boats of Africans trying to reach...

The UN Committee Against Torture has reported that Indonesian police, armed forces and intelligence services regularly use torture on criminal suspects to extract...

The Gujarat special operations police forces have conducted searches in 35 different cyber cafes in Ahmedabad in the wake the Jaipur blasts....

Georgia has sent an envoy to Russia to ease tensions between two countries over its break-away region...

BOSTON (AP) -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was airlifted to a hospital Saturday after suffering a seizure at his home, and did not appear to have had a stroke as initially suspected, his spokeswoman...

The prime minister returned to Baghdad from Mosul - where he has been overseeing the crackdown - to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who made a surprise visit to Iraq on...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Kerala: With food grain crunch emerging as a major concern for state, a campaign to boost rice production will be launched in the state as the CPI (M)-led LDF government enters...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a festival outside a Southern California church Saturday, wounding three people, one of them critically, police...

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- Six cars of a freight train derailed early Saturday, including one that began leaking hydrochloric acid, causing thousands of people to evacuate homes, businesses and two...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- Attempting to lay a symbolic claim to his party's presidential nomination, Democrat Barack Obama will mark the latest round of primary voting with a rally in Iowa, where his...

The two-time Cy Young Award winner pitched efficiently into the eighth inning, and the Mets got home runs from Jose Reyes and David Wright to top the Yankees 7-4 Saturday in the opener of a...

$196 million ticket sold at liquor store near Cincinnati Mega Millions officials say it's the only winning ticket 17 others with all numbers except Mega Ball win $250,000...

President Bush in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, on tour of Mideast Saudi Arabia responded to Bush request to increase oil supply with modest hike Criticism in Egypt, Saudi Arabia media of Bush tilting too...

DETROIT (AP) -- American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. boosted its wage offer and increased the payments it will give workers to take a wage cut as part of a tentative agreement that could...

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- Six rail cars derailed in southern Louisiana Saturday, causing a hydrochloric acid leak from two of the cars that forced police to evacuate thousands of residents within a...

More's the pity. We all know of, or see, reckless beneficiaries sending their kids to school with no lunch or breakfast while the money goes on smokes and pokies.This is a country that dare not speak...

(CNN) -- The NAACP has chosen Ben Jealous as its new president after a contentious debate that lasted long into the night, members of its board of directors said...

THRISSUR, Kerala: The state government would set up a special Hi-tech crime investigation cell at an estimated cost of Rs 30 million in order to effectively tackle the rising cyber crimes in the...

"You know, it's hard enough to get one person," Allen told reporters Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, hours before the premier of his romantic comedy "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," starring...

US Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy has been taken to hospital suffering stroke-like symptoms. Senator Kennedy, 76, was taken by ambulance to hospital in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and then by...

BEICHUAN, China (AP) -- Thousands of Chinese earthquake victims fled areas near the epicenter Saturday, fearful of floods from rivers blocked by landslides rattled loose in this week's powerful...

Almost constant drizzle on day three of the Lord's Test left England frustrated as they were denied the chance to gain a stranglehold over New Zealand. Play was confined to a 40-minute spell in...

Once the fifth over ended, Delhi went into the highest gear possible. VRV Singh was brought into the attack to replace Irfan Pathan and looked in no form of control whatsover. Gambhir first stroked...

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) -- Rafael Nadal fought off a challenge from Novak Djokovic 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 Saturday to set up another final against defending champion Roger Federer at the Hamburg...

Albanians may have found a new villain to blame for the frequent power cuts that have been blighting their lives. The country's main electricity company says a cat chasing a mouse caused a 72-hour...

Rescue efforts are resuming in Beichuan in China, after the entire city was evacuated amid fears that it could be engulfed by a river bursting its banks. The city was reduced to ruins by Monday's...

In this Jan. 22, 2008 file photo, Iraqi prisoners exercise in a prison compound in central Baghdad, Iraq. The amnesty rulings could offer an early exit for many of the 27,000 prisoners in Iraqi...

Tens of thousands of people were celebrating in Portsmouth on Saturday after Pompey lifted the FA Cup for the first time in 69 years. An estimated 60,000 fans had thronged in front of a big screen...

A driver has been cut free from his car after a train smashed into it at a railway crossing in the Highlands. Graham Macmillan, 44, was on his way to a shinty match when the accident happened at...

President Leonel Fernandez has won re-election in the Dominican Republic as his main opponent admitted defeat. Miguel Vargas Maldonado conceded after early results confirmed exit poll predictions...

Failure in Afghanistan would be "devastating" while the Nato mission was "hanging in the balance", Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said on a visit. Speaking during his first trip there, Mr Clegg...

Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty have caused concern among fans after filming a bizarre video of themselves playing with newborn mice. The pair, believed to be at Doherty's Wiltshire home, put the...

The new GI Bill essentially would guarantee a full scholarship at any in-state public university, along with a monthly housing stipend, for anyone who serves in the military for at least three years....

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey's Foreign Ministry says gunmen shot and injured a Turkish police officer near the country's embassy in Baghdad. The ministry says unidentified gunmen opened fire on a...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a top Democratic critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, expressed confidence during a visit to Iraq on Saturday that expected provincial elections will...

By Daniel Woolls Madrid - Spanish police have arrested five young computer hackers who allegedly disabled Internet pages run by government agencies in the US, Latin America and Asia, authorities...

Border patrolmen on Saturday found the bodies of a woman reported missing and her ex-husband in a car outside Moshav Ben Shemen in central Israel. Details of the cause of death for the two victims...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As head of the deep-pocketed Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, New York Sen. Charles Schumer hand-picked his party's nominee to take on Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, the last...

NEW YORK (AP) -- News that Saudi Arabia had boosted its oil output by 300,000 barrels a day was greeted as a non-event on oil markets - the move wasn't anywhere near the kind of production increase...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Somali pirates hijacked a Jordanian ship Saturday in the latest in a string of attacks off the lawless coast of Somalia, the head of a seafarer's association...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have detained more than 1,000 suspects in an offensive aimed at crushing al Qaeda in northern Iraq, the military commander of the operation said on...

In an official ceremony in Tehran this week, Mayor Mohammad Baqir Ghalibaf opened a new, sex-segregated park designed exclusively for women's leisure and...

Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov has formally launched an alternative parliament aimed at the "restoration of democracy and popular government in...