Typhoon Kai-Tak has killed at least 27 people as it swept across northern provinces of Vietnam over the weekend, officials…
Julian Assange has urged the US to end its "witch-hunt" against WikiLeaks, in his first public statement since entering Ecuador's…
Anti-Japanese protests took place in cities across China after Japan's nationalists raised their country's flag on disputed islands. Thousands of…
Mark Shriver, who is a prominent member of the Kennedy clan, has pulled the curtain on some family secrets in…
The backlash against Kristen Stewart has taken a strange turn with a T-shirt company selling tops with “Kristen Stewart Is…
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy in Beijing after taking refuge there for a week and Chinese…
Located in Brussels in Belgium, Nemo 33, the world's deepest swimming pool, contains a whopping 660,500 gallons (2.5 million litres)…
Kim Kardashian has seized the limelight again by posting pictures of what she would look like... as an alien. Kim…
Miss China Yu Wenxia was crowned as Miss World 2012 at the Dongsheng stadium in China on Saturday. According to…
A rare piece of art believed to have been inspired by Pablo Picasso in an Evansville museum, actually turned out…
The Ecuadorean government said it had granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum because it shared his fears of political persecution…
A 20-year-old man has died at the V Festival in Staffordshire in UK. Police said security staff at Weston Park…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is expected to make a public statement later on the diplomatic row that has engulfed him…
Alice Pyne, a teenager dying of cancer, has fulfilled her “bucket list” of things she wanted to do. Her final…
Philippine Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo is missing after the light aircraft he was travelling in crashed into the sea, officials…
Suspected Al-Qaeda militants have attacked the intelligence headquarters of Yemen's southern city of Aden killing 14 people, officials say. The…
Japanese politicians have set sail for a group of disputed islands, in the teeth of protests by China which claims…
Czech police have arrested a man they suspect of planning an attack similar to those launched by Anders Bering Breivik…
Eduardo Leite, a Brazilian construction worker, has survived after a 2 m (six-foot) steel rod fell from above and pierced…
Few months ago, Macaulay Culkin shocked the world with his pale and skeletal appearance, but he seems to have turned…
Patrick Ricard, head of the global spirits company Pernod Ricard, whose father founded the Ricard firm, has died at the…
French Phillipe Croizon, who lost all his limbs in an electrocution accident, has completed a swim to link five continents.…
Researchers claim that swapping to a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil could help protect your bones in later life.…
A couple of hamburgers a week could increase the chances of getting prostate cancer by 40%, according to new a…
British Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on Picasso's Child With A Dove, in the hope…