In an article published by the Izvestia daily newspaper, Gennady Matishov, who is the director of the Murmansk Marine Biology Institute in northern Russia, explained...

Dhanusha district in Nepal’s Terai plains, that celebrated the wedding of Ram and Janaki last month with the arrival of tens...

Two of the biggest goals for U.S. forces in Afghanistan are building up Afghan security forces and convincing Taliban fighters to lay down their arms — and cash...

Four people were killed in two blasts in Iraq’s capital Wednesday, a day after a string of suicide bombings killed nearly 130 people and injured more than 400 in...

Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human...

Sir John Scarlett, who drew up the dossier on which Mr Blair’s all-important claim was based, admitted the confusion would not have arisen if he had “spelled out”...

The children of this dusty village rarely see cars or trucks, but they fashion toy airplanes out of mud with paper propellers that turn in a hot, dry wind. It’s...

Residents of Budapest got to see a whole lot of red — and plenty of skin — during an annual Santa Claus charity run. About 100 runners wearing nothing but Santa...

Mounting discontent over the building ban, announced at the end of November, has already manifested itself in a series of scuffles between egg-throwing settlers and...

Dr.Samir Al Taqi from SyriaTribune discusses a possible milestone in the development of militant political Islam, mostly in the light of Nasrallah’s last...

In the United States and Europe, people worry that their well-paying, high-skill jobs will be, in a word, “Bangalored” — shipped off to India.

A pornography actress was today the tenth woman to be linked to scandal-hit golfer Tiger Woods. Joslyn James, who has starred in a number of extremely explicit adult...

When he was a Roman Catholic bishop, Fernando Lugo taught liberation theology to uplift the poor. Now he is president, he has sent special forces into Paraguay’s...

Iran intensified its crackdown on demonstrators Thursday as thousands of pro-government militiamen stormed the grounds of the country’s most prominent university...

Nigerian police are carrying out a shocking level of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, Amnesty International says. The rights group’s...

The private army accused of a civilian massacre in the southern Philippines has killed at least 200 other people, the country’s human rights commissioner said...

Wednesday’s edition of the Washington Post features an op-ed by Sarah Palin, who reprises her call — first made in a Facebook post last week — for...

Climate change in South Asia has impacted on Pakistan a loss of around $3.57 billion over the past 18 years, according to a World Bank report. The report alarms...

A man suspected of being one of the world’s most prolific underground bankers has been arrested in India after a global manhunt involving British police. Naresh...

Honduras’ president-elect said Tuesday he wants amnesty for ousted President Manuel Zelaya and for all of those involved in the June 28 coup that deposed...