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Fenerbahçe's latest addition to its football team arrived at Istanbul'sAtatürk Airport today. Fenerbahçe has signed Dutch forward Dirk Kuyt on a three-year contract from English giants Liverpool, according to a...

President Barack Obama on Friday suspended the threat of deportation against hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought to the United States as minors, delighting crucial Hispanic voters...

Cheered on by thousands of spectators, US tightrope walker Nik Wallenda late Friday fulfilled his childhood dream of walking over the Niagara Falls and into the history books. Crowds packed the US and...

Rodney King, whose police brutality case in 1991 led to deadly riots in Los Angeles, was found dead in a swimming pool on Sunday in Rialto, California, police told...

Tunisia's interior ministry on Thursday banned demonstrations in the face of calls by Islamists for protests to uphold sacred values after Friday prayers, ministry spokesman Khaled Tarrouche told AFP....

Authorities in restive northern Nigeria's Kaduna State on Sunday imposed a 24-hour curfew following several bomb attacks on churches in the area, a government spokesman and police said. "The...

The sentencing of the two farmworkers convicted in the killing South Africa's white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche was on Monday postponed until August. The court seating in the northwestern...

Pakistan's top court on Tuesday disqualified Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in a stunning move likely to throw the country into fresh turmoil two months after the premier was...

A powerful typhoon bringing heavy rain and strong winds slammed into Japan's Pacific Coast Tuesday, the weather agency said, as flights were cancelled and evacuations ordered. About 10,400 people...

A Japanese minister apologised Tuesday for the nation's failure to make use of a United States-made map showing how radiation was spreading from crippled reactors in the days after...