Cheered on by thousands of spectators, US tightrope walker Nik Wallenda late Friday fulfilled his childhood dream of walking over the Niagara...

Rodney King, whose police brutality case in 1991 led to deadly riots in Los Angeles, was found dead in a...

Tunisia's interior ministry on Thursday banned demonstrations in the face of calls by Islamists for protests to uphold sacred values...

Authorities in restive northern Nigeria's Kaduna State on Sunday imposed a 24-hour curfew following several bomb attacks on churches in...

The sentencing of the two farmworkers convicted in the killing South Africa's white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche was on Monday...

Pakistan's top court on Tuesday disqualified Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in a stunning move likely to throw the country...

A powerful typhoon bringing heavy rain and strong winds slammed into Japan's Pacific Coast Tuesday, the weather agency said, as...

A Japanese minister apologised Tuesday for the nation's failure to make use of a United States-made map showing how radiation...

An 89-year-old man died on June 17 in hospital after being violently mauled by stray dogs in a Sofia public...

Former Serbian President Boris Tadic was expected start negotiations yesterday on the formation of a pro-European Union government that would...