French anti-terrorism police converged on an area northeast of Paris after two brothers suspected of being behind an attack on a satirical newspaper were spotted at a petrol station in the...

Two people including a police officer have been seriously wounded in a shooting on the southern edge of Paris, officials say. Authorities are doing their utmost to identify and arrest the...

Political cartoonists around the world are tweeting their response to the massacre at the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, where armed gunmen killed four French cartoonists. Ruben...

Police hunted Thursday for two heavily armed men, one with possible links to al-Qaida, in the methodical killing of 12 people at a satirical newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammed. The prime...

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) - Divers were hoping to zero in on AirAsia Flight 8501's black boxes Thursday, after search and recovery operations got a much-needed boost with the discovery of a chunk...

Pierre-Adrien Sollier is a 32-year-old artist who has graduated in graphic arts and specialised in 3D animation.  He has tried to develop a history of art using Playmobil figures instead of...

Claims by Omar Al-Hassi, the Libya-Dawn supported "prime minister" in Tripoli, that a British military delegation recently paid a three-day visit to the capital have been rubbished by the British...

One of eight new planets spied in distant solar systems has usurped the title of "most Earth-like alien world", astronomers have said. All eight were picked out by Nasa's Kepler space telescope,...

At least two gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing a number of people, French media report. Witnesses spoke of sustained gunfire at the office...

A female suicide bomber has blown herself up in the Turkish city of Istanbul, injuring two police officers, the city governor says. She hit a police station in the tourist hub of Sultanahmet....