NASA scientists say crater, formed by an impact billions of years ago, is the largest yet encountered It could be the Sahara or Egypt’s Western Desert, but this sand-covered crater is the latest image from Mars. The picture was taken from...

Brother of Nobel prize-winning Colombian writer says side-effects of cancer treatment have accelerated his decline The Nobel prizewinning author Gabriel García Márquez is suffering from senile dementia and can no longer write, his brother has...

Religious groups attack London family planning conference as ‘blatant attack on morality’ Campaigners have attacked a “war on women” being waged by religious organisations before an international summit on family planning...

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Mexico CitySaturday against the presidential election win of Enrique Pena Nieto, accusing him and his party of widespread vote-buying. The marchers claim Pena Nieto, from the Institutional...

A Colorado state Senator is raising some eyebrows for praising a Dutch lawmaker’s anti-Islam crusade, saying in an interview that the lawmaker’s proposal to ban the construction of new mosques was worth considering in the United...

Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) married his partner Saturday in his hometown of Newton, Massachusetts, making him the first sitting congressman to be in a same-sex marriage. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick officiated the ceremony between...

Speaker of the House John Boehner wants you to vote for Mitt Romney, though he concedes you might have to hold your nose to do so. According to Roll Call, an unidentified woman during a question and answer session last week asked Boehner,...

Voters flocked to cast their ballots Saturday in Libya’s first free national election in decades after the ouster of dictator Moamer Kadhafi, despite protests disrupting some polling in the restive east. Gunmen killed one person and...

A study released Friday by the National Snow & Ice Data Center found that arctic ice levels underwent their most rapid loss ever for the month of June this year. According to the study, the arctic lost 2.86 million square miles of ice in...

Flash floods deluged Russia’s southern Krasnodar, killing at least 134 people — many feared drowned in their beds — in the region’sworst natural disaster in decades, officials and witnesses said Saturday. President...

West African presidents said at a crisis summit on Mali Saturday that the international war crimes court should probe abuses committed in the country’s Islamist-held desert north. The six leaders also urged Malian civil leaders to secur...

A New York appeals court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought against the state’s year-old marriage equality law, ruling that the state legislature did not violate open meetings rules while working toward a deal on the measure. The...

Egyptian women are speaking up against sexual violence after harrowing tales of mob attacks in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square prompted initiatives to combat the “epidemic.” Surrounded by volunteers to protect them, dozens of...

About 80 masked people, calling themselves allies of the global hacker group Anonymous, picked up litter in Tokyo Saturday in a novel protest against Japan’s tougher laws against illegal downloads. In light rain, they took part in an...

Students and alumni of Texas A&M University formed what they called a “maroon wall” of volunteers around Central Baptist Church in College Park, Texas on Thursday, shielding the funeral of Army Lieutenant Colonel Roy Lin Tisdale...