French prosecutors on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into accusations that disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn took part in a...

A Yemeni soldier packing powerful explosives under his uniform blew himself up in the middle of an army battalion in Sanaa on Monday, killing 96...

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano and Iran's lead negotiator, Saeed Jalili, hailed 'intensive' and 'very good' talks on Iran's...

Italian police have interrogated two suspects over the school bombing that killed a 16-year-old girl and gravely injured five more teens, newspaper...

As world leaders meet this weekend for back-to-back summits hosted by President Barack Obama six months ahead of US elections, they would be forgiven...

Ethnic rebels engaged in peace talks with Myanmar's government proposed on Saturday to wipe out drugs in Shan state - where much of the country's...

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car outside security headquarters in Syria's biggest eastern city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, killing...

Two 16-year-old girls died on Saturday after a powerful bomb blast outside their school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi, with another seven...

Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands a real chance of winning an upper house seat in his native Australia if he presses ahead with...

West Indies fought back in the first Test at Lord's here on Saturday with a disciplined display of seam bowling. England were 341 for seven at...

Sailor Ben Ainslie was the first torchbearer as the Olympic flame began its 70-day journey around Britain and Ireland on Saturday ahead of the 2012 ...

Bayern Munich host Chelsea in Saturday's Champions League final with both sides looking to erase painful memories of recent defeat at the last hurdle...