Egyptian authorities today significantly raised the death toll from clashes the previous day between police and supporters of the ousted Islamist president, saying more than 500 people died and laying...

Prime Minister David Cameron has written a heartfelt letter to the father of teenager Hannah Smith whose suicide was linked to the controversial website Ask.fm.   Mr Cameron sent the...

The South Korean president proposed Thursday that the two Koreas hold a reunion next month for families still separated 60 years after the Korean War. The proposal came a day after the...

A cameraman for British broadcaster Sky News and a Dubai-based newspaper reporter were killed during violence in Egypt on Wednesday, their employers said.   Sky said Mick Deane, 61, was shot...

An Egyptian Health Ministry official says 56 people have been killed across the country in clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi.   Khaled...

Surveillance cameras captured the moment every door at a maximum-security jail wing in Florida swung open and released a flock of violent criminals, who ganged up and attacked another inmate with...

An Indian navy official said 18 sailors are trapped aboard a submarine that caught fire and sank after an explosion. He says other sailors are working frantically to save them.   The...

Israel released 26 Palestinian inmates, including many convicted in grisly killings, on the eve of long-stalled Mideast peace talks, angering families of those slain by the prisoners, who were...

Emotions can often get the better of jubilant relatives during a wedding celebration. But rather than shedding a tear, this grandmother somehow managed to throw her drink over the...

The body of an animal lover was gnawed and eaten by her own cats after she died at home alone, a UK court heard today.   The decomposing corpse of Janet Veal, 56, was discovered on the...