A Pakistani tribal leader who led opposition against the Taliban has been killed in an explosion, CNN reports. Police say Hashim Khan died when explosives hidden inside his vehicle detonated. The blast happened Wednesday afternoon around 1 o’cloc ...
A fire ripped through a Hong Kong market popular among tourists early Wednesday morning, leaving dozens of people wounded and at least 9 others dead. Government officials said the fire broke out shortly before 5 a.m. at a hawker stall on Fu Yuen ...
Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man accused of murdering 77 people in two separate attacks in July, has been declared insane by psychiatrists. Medical experts came to the conclusion that Breivik is schizophrenic after conducting 13 intervie ...
Lana Peters, the only daughter of the late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, has died. Peters, born Svetlana Alliluyeva to Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva, passed away in Wisconsin last Tuesday. She was 85 and had been battli ...
A top Colombian drug lord was captured in Venezuela over the weekend, officials from both countries confirmed Monday. Intelligence provided to Venezuelan authorities by Colombian police led to the arrest of Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco, also known ...
A protest against the U.K.’s decision to ban all business relationships and transactions with Iranian banks led to demonstrators storming two British Embassy compounds in Tehran on Tuesday. Live footage shows protesters smashing doors and windows ...
British officials confirmed Monday that Prince William was part of a four man rescue team that saved two Russian sailors from the Irish Sea after their ship capsized. William was the co-pilot of the helicopter that airlifted the sailors and took ...
Pakistani officials outraged by the deaths of 24 soldiers in a NATO airstrike over the weekend have denied reports the soldiers caused the attack by firing on coalition troops patrolling along the border in Afghanistan. Major General Athar Abbas ...
Officials in the Philippines believe al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaff militants are responsible for Sunday’s deadly explosion at a hotel in Zamboanga City. Authorities say 3 people died and 27 others were wounded in the blast, which originated from a ...
A Pakistani woman accused of killing her husband and cooking his remains said she committed the crimes to prevent him from having a sexual relationship with her teen daughter.
Mexican officials say three abandoned vehicles discovered Thursday in Jalisco state were filled with the corpses of 26 men. According to the Notimex news agency, the cars were abandoned near a monument on a major street in Guadalajara. A message ...
A young Afghan woman who was convicted of adultery and sentenced to 12 years in prison after a family member raped her two years ago has had her sentence reduced. Prosecutors announced Wednesday that 21-year-old Gulnaz will only be required to se ...
The Southeast Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia ended in tragedy this week with the deaths of two fans. Police say the pair was trampled to death in a stampede. Another 8 people were injured.
An experienced helicopter pilot helping in the installation of a seven-story Christmas tree near the Te Wero Island Bridge in Auckland, New Zealand on Wednesday miraculously survived a crash that left the helicopter severely mangled.
A strong earthquake rattled Bolivia Tuesday afternoon, but did not cause any damages, injuries or deaths. The U.S. Geological Survey initially reported a 6.7 magnitude tremor, but later downgraded it to a 6.2 magnitude.
Mexican soldiers patrolling in the border city of Tijuana last Friday found $15.3 million in cash inside a parked car. The cash was seized along with jewelry, four weapons and three kilos of cocaine. Authorities say the money belonged to Sinaloa ...
A Korean-flagged cargo ship manned by 21 crew members sank Monday afternoon in the South China Sea, authorities in China and South Korea have confirmed. The Bright Ruby, which was traveling from Malaysia to China with a load of steel, went down a ...
An ambush carried out by more than fifty suspected Baluch separatist rebels left over a dozen paramilitary troops dead, Pakistani officials say. According to a military spokesman, the ambush took place Monday in Balochistan province’s Chamalang d ...
Two separate fires ripped through a nursing home in Sydney Australia early Friday, leaving at least four elderly patients dead. At least 14 people suffered severe burns and were admitted to intensive care. Eighteen others were hospitalized with m ...
A collision involving an overloaded school bus and a coal truck in northwest China on Wednesday left over a dozen people dead. The accident happened in Yulinzi township, Gansu province