Authorities were on Monday investigating a fatal shooting in an Israeli prison after a US-Israeli inmate was gunned down by guards after opening fire with a...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed off on a controversial law that will see homosexuals jailed for life, shrugging off warnings from key international allies...
Fresh from a $19-billion (14-billion-euro) takeover by Facebook, mobile messaging service WhatsApp said Monday it will launch free voice calls by mid-year. The introduction of free...
Alec Baldwin denounced the rituals of celebrity worship as he vowed to retire from public life. “In the New Media culture, anything good you do is...
As Arizonans wait to see if Gov. Jan Brewer will sign the recently passed bill legalizing anti-LGBT discrimination, a state senator who voted for the bill...
A Spanish astronomer on Monday said he had witnessed a fridge-sized asteroid smash into the Moon, in the biggest lunar impact by a space rock ever...
A leopard sparked panic in a north Indian city when it strayed inside a hospital, a cinema and an apartment block while evading captors, an official...
Pope Francis has created a new finance ministry to oversee the Holy See's economic and administrative affairs, his first decisive action in the wake of scandals...
Ukraine issued an arrest warrant Monday for ousted president Viktor Yanukovych over the "mass murder" of protesters and appealed for $35 billion in Western aid to...
Egypt’s government has resigned, the prime minister said on Monday, paving the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his candidacy for...
Recording a police officer in public isn't a crime. Well, it isn't anything a cop can cite or arrest you for doing. Instead, a bunch of...
The rogue runaway star Kappa Cassiopeiae — also known as HD 2905 — is the subject of a stunning new image taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space...
If you want to get a sense of just how rapidly the world is being deforested, and words aren’t enough for you, well, now there’s a...
Producer Harvey Weinstein says Hunger Games star ‘deserves a rest’ after series of exhausting movies Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence is to take a year-long break from the...
One in every 13 tweets contains a rude word. But what are people’s favorites – and which ones do women use more than men? What do...