Authorities are struggling to determine the reason a 27-year-old Alabama man shot dead 10 people, including his mother, before killing himself after a gunbattle with police and a car chase down a ...

Up to 150,000 of the books on the shelves of Berlin's Central and Regional Library headquarters (ZLB) are thought to have been stolen by the National Socialists from Jews, freemasons, social ...

R&B singer/songwriter Kelly Rowland gets HIV tested in Kenya as part of the MTV Staying Alive campaign against AIDS.

Israel has moved ahead with a plan to expand a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank pursuing a project the United States has already condemned as an obstacle to peace efforts. It was ...

Almost a fifth of Amsterdam’s popular marijuana-selling coffee shops are to be closed because they are too close to schools, the city council said on Friday. Of the 228 such shops in the Dutch ...

An Egyptian woman successfully gave birth to septuplets early Saturday in the coastal city of Alexandria, a hospital director said.

Groups representing the mentally disabled claim the movie 'Tropic Thunder' is going too far.

Aries should start a new study or take a big trip. Then you are in for a fulfilling year in 2021, believes astrologer Randon Rosenbohm. A good network is helpful.

The Australian hometown of late actor Heath Ledger named a theater after him Tuesday to honor his commitment to acting. The 91 million Australian dollar (US$87 million), 575-seat Heath Ledger ...

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak apologised to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday after Israeli forces shelled the main U.N. aid compound in Gaza. The United Nations Relief and ...

On thursday the 11th of the "Star Trek movies" makes its debut in movie theaters, backed by a huge hype. But whether the film based on a 43-year-old franchise can win young fans and big box office ...

A new kind of malaria drug has been developed by U.S. researchers that kills the parasite that causes the disease and keeps it from becoming resistant to the drug. Tests in mice show the compound ...