Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced his resignation Friday after 15 months in power, his career doomed by the government's handling of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis.
The U.S. Department of Defence unveiled its annual report on China's military on Wednesday, revealing the Asian giant will have a modern military capable of force-projection while sustaining high-intensity combat in less than ten years.
While the West and the rebels hunt Colonel Gaddafi down, less attention is given to the most vulnerable people affected by the conflict: the children.
Where is Muammar Gaddafi? It is the question of the moment, as two days after the Libyan leader's compound fell in the hands of the rebels, the Colonel is still in hiding.
Since Amy Winehouse's demise last month, her father Mitch Winehouse spoke of his plans to set up a foundation in her name to help drug users.
700,000 students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will today receive their GCSE results.
Questions into Amy Winehouse's cause of death remain unanswered as toxicology reports revealed there were "no illegal substances" in her body at the time of her death, the singer's family said.
A theory that climate change could be a cause in triggering conflict, has been given a new boost after a new scientific study found an unmistakeable link between climate fluctuations and violence.
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Hurricane Irene, the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season, battered the Bahamas Wednesday night and is expected to gather power as it moves on the North Carolina coast and threatens the densely populated U.S. Northeast by the weekend.
19 people were injured after a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Peru, near the border with Brazil, destroying several buildings while traffic in the southern part of the country is blocked, reports said.
As the quest for Gaddafi intensifies, world powers are already planning their next strategic move to optimise their relationship with Libya, strategizing their next moves for relations with Libya, proving that the race for the best deals has now truly started.
Amy Winehouse's cause of death remains a mystery, until inquest results are revealed in October.
As Anna Hazare refuses to end his hunger strike, the Indian government, feeling the pressure, has decided is meeting to meet with of all major opposition parties to arrive at a compromise that will satisfy the 74-year-old Gandhian activist.
Gaddafi's compound might now be in the hands of the rebels, but the leader is not yet ready to relinquish power.
After months of conflict, the rebels control most of Tripoli, but there is still no news of Moammar Gaddafi and his followers are still setting up resistance.
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke will today promise to end criminals on community punishments 'sitting idle at home watching daytime television'
As the dust settles on the riots that took hold of the streets of London a fortnight ago, the emergency services are now beginning to release information on the damage inflicted on their vehicles during the disturbances.
People on the East Coast of the Unites States are still in a state of shock after a magnitude-5.8 earthquake centred on the state of Virginia was felt in Washington and New York.
North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il arrived in Siberia Tuesday, making his first visit to the country and old cold war ally in nine years.
The search for Colonel Gadhafi might soon be over after an al-Jazeera correspondent said rebels are only 500m from Col Gaddafi's heavily fortified Bab al-Aziziya compound in the centre of Tripoli, but the civilians living in Tripoli are still getting caught up in the conflict.
Phillip Seaton and wife Deborah have sued a surgeon for "loss of service, love and affection", after Mr Seaton's penis was amputated during an operation which he said was done without his consent.
A petition calling on the UK Government to release all official documents relating to the Hillsborough disaster 15 April 1989 may result in a debate in Parliament.
Saif al-Islam, appearing in the streets of Tripoli Tuesday morning, proclaimed: "We broke the backbone of the rebels. It was a trap. We gave them a hard time. So we are winning." Could he be right?
A Labour MP is asking Britain's Electoral Commission to investigate whether Rupert Murdoch and his News International were 'covertly' funding the Conservative Party when it was in opposition.
Hurricane Irene is set to hit Haiti, the Bahamas and Florida in the next few days, forecasters warned last night.
Since Amy Winehouse's demise last month, her father Mitch Winehouse spoke of his plans to set up a foundation in her name to help drug users.
The Australian parliament has found itself in the middle of a new sex scandal after Craig Thomson, the former secretary of the Health Services in 2005, has been accused of withdrawing money from his union credit card that was then used to procure the services of prostitutes, while working for the government.
More than 2,000 of bullet-riddled bodies were found buried in dozens of unmarked graves across Kashmir, an Indian government human rights commission inquiry has concluded.
As the 41-year-old regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi is falling apart, leaving space for the National Transitional Council to take over the country, analysts are already attempting to look at the consequences of the fall of the man that managed to cling to power for so many years.
