Astronaut sends spectacular pictures back to Earth via his Twitter account.
Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, has proposed the resurrection of a Soviet-era project to divert Siberian rivers southward t...
A Koran burning ceremony to take place at a Florida church on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks has provoked international conde...
The residents of Lustful Court in Georgia, US, have asked for a name change as they are sick of being subjected to ridicule
Rubbing your hands together after washing could counteract the effect of cleaning them in the first place, scientists have claimed
A video of a lion attacking one its trainers in front of a crowd of onlookers at a Las Vegas hotel has created a stir in the US.
The headquarters of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling UMP party has been raided by police as part of the L'Oreal electoral fraud scand...
Proposals to tax witches and fortune tellers in Romania were voted down by senators
Wreckage of ruined car illustrates changing nature of modern warfare
A police officer managed to arrest a suspect despite being squirted with his own pepper spray, punched and kicked in the head and then sho...