A decade after the attacks on New York and Washington, has the American and British "war on terror" made either the Western or the Islamic world signficantly safer place, or has it simply bred resentment on all sides?
Russia is in mourning after a Yak-42 plane carrying three-time Russian champions Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - a popular team Hockey team crashed on Wednesday near Yaroslavl, 185 miles northeast of Moscow.
John Galliano has been found guilty of anti-Semitic insults after he admitted using anti-Semitic insults and racist language at a Paris restaurant.
Despite calling for a halt to hostilities and extending the deadline before their planned assault on Bani Walid following stalled negotiations with the tribal leaders, Gaddafi loyalists fired on advancing a chief interim council negotiator said.
The Palestinian Authority has officially launched its bid to become a full member of the United Nations, using its campaign to denounce what it sees as the United States' double standards.
Muammar Gaddafi is still on the run despite being hunted down by the National Transitional Council and NATO forces. Taking over from Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden, the colonel is now the most wanted man on the planet.
The Channel Four Documentary "Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill" aired on British television Wednesday night, four months after American Special Forces stormed the al-Qaida leader's compound in Pakistan and shot the man responsible for thousands of deaths across the world.
As controversy is still surrounding the war crimes committed during the Sri Lanka civil war in which between 10,000 and 20,000 civilians were killed in the final months of the conflict continues, Amnesty International said a national inquiry has failed so far to investigate war crimes by both the army and Tamil rebels.
NATO has temporarily stopped transferring detainees to a number of Afghan jails after a new report, yet to be published, uncovered accusations of torture and abuse NATO and United Nations officials said Tuesday.
The events of 9/11 seem very clear to most people in the world. Nineteen terrorists were able to get through airport security, hijack four passenger airliners and fly them into targets to cause maximum devastation to New York and Washington DC. However to some, the reaction of the United States in the aftermath of 9/11 does not add up, raising suspicions of an 'inside job.'
According to a new study conducted by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) released recently, babies being born in a certain month will indicate what job they will end up with.
“Which month the baby is born may determine what career he or she is likely to follow as an adult,” they asserted. Researchers in the study also found that the month in which babies are born could also affect everything from intelligence to lifespan.
A spokesman for Tripoli's new military council says National Transitional (NTC) have found Muammar Gaddafi and know where he is hiding, warning he will soon be captured or killed, the Associated Press reported.
A bomb hidden in a briefcase detonated outside the Indian High Court, at the heart of the capital Delhi, killing at least nine people and injuring 45, Home Secretary RK Singh has said.
As rebel forces continue the manhunt for fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi in Libya's desert triangle, reports emerging said that more than 200 armoured vehicles possibly sheltering Gaddafi and his sons had crossed into Niger, with sources saying the colonel could be heading for Burkina Faso.
China has said it will strengthen controls over its arms exports, following revelations that representatives of the Gaddafi regime met with state-owned weapons companies despite a UN embargo, without the knowledge of the government.
As Tel Aviv refuses to apologise for the deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish-flagged protest flotilla that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists last year, Turkey is "totally suspending" all trade, military and defence industry ties with Israel, the Turkish prime minister said.
Younis al-Mauritani, a senior al-Qaeda commander, who experts say acted as the organisation's "foreign minister", has been captured by Pakistani security forces working together with the CIA, the Pakistani army said on Monday.
A "monster" wildfire, 16-miles-wide (26-km) has struck drought-stricken Texas with fire-fighters struggling to contain the fire that has destroyed almost 500 homes.
Although Amy Winehouse made the Sunday Times Rich List in 2008 with an estimated fortune of £10 million, her fortune was worth just over £2 million when she died.
Fourth September this year marked the first anniversary of the 7.1 Richter scale earthquake that struck the city of Christchurch at 04.35 local time. New Zealand's second largest city, and the largest in the South Island, the miracle was surely that despite extensive damage, no-one was killed in the quake. No doubt that the quake hit the area early on a Saturday morning helped make this possible.
Police in Sydney are negotiating with a shirtless man wearing a barrister's wig who is holding a child at a courthouse in a suburb of Sidney and is in possession of a backpack which he says contains explosives.
A Libyan armed convoy of vehicles, believed to be mainly made up of Tuareg fighters fighting for Colonel Gaddafi has crossed into Niger according to reports.
With revelations that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer that may kill him within two years, the race for succession in Zimbabwe is set to get even more heated.
Jacques Chirac, was absent from court as his corruption trial opened Monday as he "no longer has the full capacity to participate in court proceedings", according to a statement released on Saturday by his lawyers, who have asked the former French president be allowed to skip court appearances.
Tensions between the UK, China and the Libyan Transitional Council (NTC) are increasing after allegations of close ties to the Gaddafi regime threaten to derail the relationship the NTC has with its allies.
Despite months of protests and with the International Community growing impatient the al-Assad regime still continues its crackdown as deaths of several protesters security personnel were reported in Syria on Sunday as the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited Damascus.
A small plane crashed and burst into flames Sunday killing one person and igniting a fire, forcing residents of a California mountain community to flee from at least 100 homes.
Despite Gaddafi being in hiding since the rebels assault on Tripoli, the National Transitional Council (NTC) forces are still struggling to take control of the country as latest report say that talks between the new regime and Gaddafi loyalists have broken down, leading many to fear a bloody battle for the town of Bani Walid.
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Japanese rescue teams have resumed the search as thousands were stranded and more than 50 people are still missing after Typhoon Talas hit the west of the country, triggering floods and landslides that killed at least 26 people on Shikoku Island on Saturday.
