Richard Wilson has been a pallbearer for at least five of his “homeboys” in the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux imitation of a notorious Denver gang.

Bolivia — When the tap across from her mud-walled home dried up in September, Celia Cruz stopped making soups and scaled back washing for her family of five. She...

Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after the African group withdrew co-operation. African delegations were angry at what they saw as moves by...

An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts closer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over a massive area of ocean, experts said...

f you live in the Maldives, “1.5 to stay alive” is more than just a catchy slogan. The reality is that temperature rises above 1.5C will destroy this island...

o close by the motherland. Britain has claimed an historic victory in the Miss World contest — although technically Miss Gibraltar won the prize. Kaiane Aldorino,...

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s recent admission that he would have invaded Iraq even if he knew from the start that it did not have weapons of mass...

Taliban fighters attacked checkpoints in northern and southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 16 members of the Afghan National police. Eight policemen were killed...

An assassination bid aimed at the first Guinean leader from the minority Guerze tribe has raised concerns that ethnic and regional divisions in the country could...

Brazilian police officers in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, in the country’s Southeast, routinely resort to lethal force, often committing extrajudicial...

Twenty-three people burned to death when a bus carrying mourners to a funeral collided with a truck on a road in southwest Nigeria, police said Monday. Killed were the...

Dubai’s government has announced it has been given a $10bn (£6.13bn) handout from United Arab Emirates neighbour Abu Dhabi to help it pay off its debts. It will...

Like any true heavyweight, Silvio Berlusconi is a bruiser who likes a rumble in the political jungle. Well now he’s got the scars to prove it. On his nose, his...

When Tokyo Sexwale stands up at the just completed ZANU PF congress and declares undying gratitude to ZANU PF because of their support of the ANC during the South...

The spectre of failure loomed at the UN climate summit Monday as an African negotiator said the talks were at “code red” while China accused wealthy nations...

Mexican cartels are increasingly going “old school” to keep supplying America with methamphetamine despite an ingredient squeeze. Some gangs have responded...

There were rose petals and rice on the ground in front of the civil registry in Buenos Aires. But in the end they weren’t for Alex Freyre and Jose Maria Di Bello,...

It was a shocking sight and the putrid smell almost made me vomit: A hundred dead cows were spread across the dry plain in various stages of decomposition. Flies buzzed...

Raul Castro on Sunday declared the global climate summit in Copenhagen a failure from the start and urged leftist Latin American leaders to devise their own plan on how...

A thick layer of the black spongy soil, the remnants of ancient forests, wraps the globe’s northern tier. Deeper than 15 feet in places, the peat layer extends over...