WORLD

Xinhua's warning to Uncle Sam: Peeping Tom will be struck blind.

Parents in Germany will now be able to choose "undetermined" where baby's sex is unclear.

Underground passage equipped with electricity and rail system found linking San Diego and Tijuana

Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, AOL and Facebook asked for additional oversight and accountability mechanisms for NSA programmes.

But New York AIDS charity Housing Works set for huge windfall from auction sale.

Military strike targets Hamas tunnels in Gaza.

Volvo says it is looking at all possibilities including wiring problems, engine errors and presence of chemical explosives in bus's trunk.

Border officials arrest Montreal woman Mercedes Jerez Farias for cocaine-stuffed pumpkins.

Following a surprise meeting with a German MP, NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden indicates he is open to giving evidence against old employers.

Beijing asserts right to curb export of essential minerals indispensable for hi-tech industries.

Charities bracing for rollback in aid and more cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Barack Obama had ordered NSA to halt eavesdropping on IMF and World Bank within last few weeks.

Attack on a military base near coastal city of Latakia targets Russian-made missiles intended to be transferred to Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

Three mobsters killed in Quarto Oggiaro suburb fuelling fears amid locals in northern Italian business city

Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson had an affair lasting at least six years, the Old Bailey hears.

South Africa's road safety record comes bottom of list of 36 mostly developed countries, discovers expat Cath Everett.

Neighbours catch widow allegedly trying to dump baby's body a day after birth.

Canadian politician's friend Alessandro Lisi rearrested on extrortion charges following drug trafficking probe.

Details of massive housing construction emerge after release of 26 Palestinian prisoners.

Halloween has morphed from pagan festival to spooky celebration over hundreds of years.

Two trucks smuggling migrants across the desert broke down north of Niger's town of Arlit.

Pupil fell to death in Chengdu classroom after pleading he was scared.

The Christian Science Church in Dixon, Illinois, resembles the phallus shape from a bird's eye view .

Outrage after girl found in front of hospital suffering from life-threatening injuries and signs of rape

The National Security Agency has tapped directly into communications links used by Google and Yahoo to move huge amounts of email and other user information among overseas data centres, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday (October 31).

New York buzzing at latest stunt by British artist which is set to raise huge sum for AIDS charity

Photo released of baby olinguito, first mammal discovered in western hemisphere for 35 years.

Front National leader puzzled by the beards sported by hostages freed by al-Qaida in Niger

Antonietta Testa had heart attack and collapsed into husband's tomb but Pompei residents used death to choose lotto numbers.