The UN food agency says one-third of all food produced in the world gets wasted, amounting to a loss of $750 billion a year.   The Rome-based Food and Agricultural Organisation said in a...

CBS News had essentially given up its pursuit of Syrian President Bashar Assad for an interview because he would not agree to go on "60 Minutes," until Charlie Rose suggested airing it on...

Saying their crime shocked the conscience of India, the prosecutor in the fatal New Delhi gang rape called today for all four convicted rapists to be hanged, while one of the defendants...

A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts touched down to Earth early today after undocking from the International Space Station following 166 days in space.   American Chris...

A powerful car bomb exploded today near Libya's Foreign Ministry building in the heart of the eastern coastal city of Benghazi, security officials said, exactly one year after an attack...

BEIRUT (AP) — A Russian plan for Syria to turn over its chemical weapons to avert Western missile strikes has bogged down after Moscow rejected U.S. and French demands for a binding U.N....

A lawyer found he couldn't sneak into court late, at least not wearing jeans and blue suede sneakers.   Judge Ioan Adrian Chitoiu slapped defence lawyer Catalin Dancu with a...

They had just married, but the woman was having second thoughts, court documents say. During an argument at a US park, he grabbed her arm, but she shoved him off a cliff to his...

A British jury has cleared Michael Le Vell, a longtime star of the British soap opera "Coronation Street," of child sex abuse charges.    The 48-year-old actor was found not...

Men's aptitude for childcare may be reflected in the size of their testes, according to a study by US scientists, the study of which was published in yesterday’s The Guardian online...