The Toronto city council has decided to strip Mayor Rob Ford of most of his authority, as the embattled city…
Dow Jones index rose above 16,000 points for the first time and the broader Standard and Poor's passed through the…
One man has been seriously injured after a gunman has opened fire inside a Paris office building housing the left-wing…
Top Syrian rebel commander Abdul Qadir al-Saleh has died of wounds he sustained in a government air strike on a…
Stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has begun removing fuel rods from a storage pond at the Unit 4 reactor building. The…
Documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reportedly revealed that Australia's intelligence agencies spied on phone calls of Indonesian President…
Dozens of tornadoes killed at least six people, injured many others and left devastating damage in parts of Illinois. The…
A Russian passenger plane has crashed at Kazan airport killing at least 50 people, officials say. The Tatarstan Airlines Boeing…
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has been asked by the government to try the former military leader Pervez Musharraf on treason charges.…
Two police officers and nine axe-wielding assailants have been shot dead during an attack on a police station in China's…