As natural disaster batter the world's agricultural industry, fears are growing that we may be heading into the dark food crisis days of 2007 and...

Over 200 women and children have been raped by rebels in the Congo in recent weeks, according to UN...

A US cartoonist's attempt to make a statement about the violence in Mexico backfired with his use of the Mexican flag and its national symbol, the Mexican...

Christchurch residents are taking stock of the damage to their city following the major earthquake that struck in the early hours of Saturday morning with local officials calling the lack of fatalities a...

The Peruvian Amazon has suffered a major dry spell with the Amazon River's water levels dropping...

A popular medication for the prevention of osteoporosis doubles the chances of developing cancer, according to a recent UK...

A massive traffic jam has developed in China's Inner Mongolia on the Beijing Tibet Highway just days after another major snarl was...

Mount Sinabung in Indonesia has sent more ash billowing into the air, prompting the evacuation of villagers who'd begun to return to their...

A plane has crashed in the United Arab Emirates in the city of Dubai, killing both pilots of the...

A plane has crashed in New Zealand's South Island killing all nine passengers...

Miami police swooped on the main airport on Friday when screeners detected a suspicious article in a checked...

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in the south of Afghanistan after touching down on...

25 or more people have died in a gunfight between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug gang members near the northern Mexican city of...

Nine people were killed when a skydive plane crashed at Fox Glacier airport in New...

Sep 4 2010 A Briton is among nine people who died when a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashed and burst into flames near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps. ...

The breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh says one Azerbaijani soldier was killed today in fighting on the front line of the Armenian-backed region. It says on its army website that soldiers repelled...

The United States should not delay in ratifying the new nuclear arms treaty with Russia, the chief U.S. negotiator has said.Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller argues that the longer it...

QUETTA, Pakistan -- A suicide bombing claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed at least 54 Muslims at a procession in southwest Pakistan yesterday. To the northwest, in Pakistan's restive tribal...

A Chicago dentist has created a TV ad pushing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as a 2012 presidential candidate, Politico reported yesterday. The 30-second spot, which cost Dr. William...

Rescuers spotted the body of the son of Hall of Fame boxing promoter Bob Arum on a rugged Washington state mountainside yesterday afternoon, five days after they began looking for him in North...

A dozen sickened Ground Zero workers -- including several out-of-state firefighters -- are asking a judge to let them join a pending $712.5 million settlement with the city. The claimants say in...

Take Manhattan -- please! Republican Carl Paladino supposedly wants to be governor of the entire state, but admitted yesterday he really only likes two of the five Big Apple boroughs -- Queens and...

The BP oil spill that spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico is unlikely to deter travel to Florida and Louisiana for the rest of the year, a new poll shows. Bookings to the...

VICTORIA BECKHAM talks the talk. Guiding a visitor through her fall 2010 collection, spread on a rack in her studio in Battersea, she draws out a dress recently worn...

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea is preparing a large political meeting where dictator Kim Jong Il is expected to appoint his youngest son to a key Workers Party position in what would be the...

What's he smoking? A Brooklyn man claims he cut his mouth on a nail lodged inside a cigar. Stogie smoker Anthony Raimondi says that two years ago, he bit into a Holt's Company specialty cigar called...

One of the money men behind the developer of the Ground Zero mosque was sued for allegedly ripping off an insurance company for nearly $1.8 million, according to court documents. Hisham Elzanaty, who...

Al-Hayat reported on Saturday.According to the report, PA sources said that Palestinian attendees on the Washington trip felt a significant shift in outlook regarding impending negotiations, having...

JOHR AL-DIK, Eastern Gaza Strip, Sep 4, 2010 (IPS) - With power cuts up to 16 hours to full days, a soaring heat wave and unbearable humidity, the Israeli-led siege on Gaza is but one of many...

Nine people, including four foreigners, were killed when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at a popular New Zealand tourist spot Saturday, officials said. The plane went down near the...

COPIAPO, Chile : Three drilling machines will try to dig out 33 miners trapped for a month underground, the engineer in charge of the rescue operation said Friday, as work at the main shaft resumed....

SOUTH YARMOUTH, Massachusetts : Storm Earl barreled toward Canada past the northeastern US state of Massachusetts early Saturday after it weakened further and was downgraded from a hurricane to a...

Nine people died after a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashed on New Zealand’s South Island today.The plane burst into flames after take-off from an airstrip at Fox Glacier, said...

INDONESIA - Environmentalists praised Burger King's decision Saturday to stop buying palm oil from an Indonesian company accused of destroying rainforests. The US hamburger chain giant - which...

NEW ORLEANS: BP PLC was on Saturday slowly raising the 300-ton blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, careful not to damage or drop a key piece of evidence in...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake damaged buildings, cut power and knocked fleeing residents off their feet on New Zealand's South Island early Saturday, but...

A Briton was among nine people who died when a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashed and burst into flames near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps today. ...

By Gyles Beckford Wellington - Authorities declared a state of emergency after a major earthquake hit New Zealand's second biggest city early on Saturday, bringing down power lines, ripping up...

Makhachkala, Russia - A senior official in the province of Dagestan in Russia's Caucasus was wounded on Saturday and his driver killed by a bomb planted in their car, a police spokesperson told...

Oaxaca, Mexico - At least six people, including two Mexican federal lawmakers and a governor, were killed when their small plane crashed in southern Mexico on Friday, the attorney general's office...

Wellington - Nine people, including four foreigners, were killed when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at a popular New Zealand tourist spot on Saturday, police and media said. The...

A Pakistani flood victim covers her face as she talks on the phone at a relief camp for victims in Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province September 3,...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A light aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in flames Saturday near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, killing nine people including four foreign...

Phillies' starting pitcher Cole Hamels throws against the Brewers during the 6th inning at Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia, Friday, September 3, 2010. (Steven M. Falk / Staff...

I LIKE LABOR DAY, and that's fitting, because I've labored in nearly every kind of job. I worked in an animal research lab and as a police dispatcher, in a drug store and as a supermarket cashier, in...

MURDER CASES can be mysteries. In one case, however, authorities aren't scratching their heads over who did it. They believe they have the right man. Instead, they're puzzled by the actions of a...

Carol Keenan and husband Robert Berardo celebrate her 1990 victory in a gender-bias lawsuit against the city. Keenan, who died Thursday, was the city's first female homicide...