Archive for the ‘ World News ’ Category

BBC broadcaster Ray Gosling was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder after he confessed on television to killing a lover who was dying of AIDS.

A veteran climber’s body was found in the crater of a volcano, after falling 1,500 feet when the snow he was standing on collapsed beneath him.

The Red Cross says a school collapsed in northern Haiti after heavy rains, killing 3 children on Monday.

A man made a Valentine’s Day proposal to his girlfriend via a stadium video board at a New York Rangers ice hockey match – but got the cold shoulder.

Inside Marjah, Marines encountered “death at every corner” on Sunday, their second day of a massive offensive to capture this bleak mud-brick city filled with booby traps, hardcore Taliban fighters and civilians unsure where to cast their loyalty.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi landed in hot water again after joking that Italy’s doors were only open to attractive immigrants, The Sun reported Saturday.

Sixteen countries have offered to provide the 3,500 extra troops and police officers that the United Nations requested to beef up security in Haiti and ensure aid is delivered to earthquake victims, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday.

The father of the only remaining suspect in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway has died in Aruba.

South Africans today celebrated the steps that sounded apartheid’s death knell 20 years ago: Nelson Mandela walking to freedom after 27 years in prison.

Photographed on a reserve in Madagascar, these two lemurs show off some of their best moves for the camera.

Helicopters ferried rescuers to and bodies away from the site of a massive avalanches that blocked an important mountain pass north of Kabul as the death toll soared Wednesday to 166, officials said.

Ethiopian skier Robel Teklemariam is not the first slightly odd entrant to challenge for Winter Olympic glory…

Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue.

Iran’s military has launched two production lines to build unmanned aircraft with surveillance and attack capabilities, the defense minister said Monday.

American and British forces poised to assault the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province, have begun targeting insurgent leaders for assassination, The Sunday Times reported.