Mexican authorities have dismissed almost a quarter of all traffic police in the city of Monterrey for failing corruption and competence tests. It is the latest move...

Thailand may have a reputation for indulging visitors in their various vices, but smoking is no longer one of them. On Tuesday, more than 600 fired-up protesters...

A landslide on a mountainside in northern Tanzania triggered by four days of heavy rain has killed at least 20 people, a senior local official said on...

When US President Barack Obama visits China this weekend, he will encounter a rival that sees the financial crisis as more of an opportunity than a threat. America, on...

No one knows if one-year old Yunus will ever see his mother again. Like six million other Indonesians, she traveled far from home to find employment. She was hired by a...

First came the Brezhnev Market. Then the Bush Market. Now Afghans are beginning to call their notorious bazaar full of chow and supplies bought or stolen from the vast...

Nigerian star Stephen Worgu, who plays in Sudan, has been convicted of drinking alcohol and has been sentenced to be flogged. Worgu plays for the Sudanese giants Al...

Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China’s central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that police refuse to acknowledge...

An ugly race row has left South Africa’s national power company leaderless and is threatening to turn the lights out in the country only nine months before it is...

Gordon Brown’s poor spelling and awkward telephone manner may have won him sympathy this week, as the British public begins to feel sorry for a prime minister...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t...

Police say Mike Tyson has been detained on suspicion of battery after an alleged altercation with a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport. Tyson’s...

Life is slowly getting back to normal at the women’s campus of Islamabad’s International Islamic University. The young women who study here chatter on the...

It seems like such a simple act of compassion - allowing the partners of committed same-sex couples to make funeral arrangements for their significant others. But...

Stability was rediscovered once again in AlTafayleh neighborhood in Eastern Amman after riots reportedly caused injuries among anti-riots police forces and cases of...

President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how...

No, I am saying it, this is the verdict of BeautifulPeople.com. and how did they draw this inference, simply by rejecting most of the Britons’ applications - both...

Christain women in Egypt are going through a horrible time, reveal the Christian Solidarity International (CSI)and the Coptic Foundation for Human Rights.

The Pakistan team is distressed about the current fallout in the semi-finals of New Zealand. Anyhow younis khan comes to the rescue by saying there is a feud in the...

Don’t laugh — this is serious money! Who denies that city guys are smart? Who says that the term city slickers is not correct? In recent years two stories of...