Here's the latest news for Friday, January 2nd: U.S. imposes fresh sanctions against North Korea, Jury selection nears in Boston Marathon Bombing trial; More bodies recovered in AirAsia 8501 disaster;...

Even by the lacklustre standards of the Italian public service, it was a flagrant display of absenteeism - 83 per cent of Rome's police officers called in sick on New Year's Eve, as more than half a...

A woman who claims that an American investment banker loaned her to rich and powerful friends as an underage "sex slave" has alleged in a US court document that she was repeatedly forced to have...

The AirAsia jet that crashed into the Java Sea rose so high so fast and was thrust so violently into the water that it 'bordered on the edge of logic', a crash expert said today. Aviation...

A plane with 28 passengers on board has made an emergency landing after one of its engines caught fire. Firefighters were called to London Southend Airport at about 8.45am. The Blue Islands...

Ukrainian nationalists have marched through Kiev to honour the World War Two anti-Soviet leader Stepan Bandera. At the rally far-right leader Oleh Tyahnybok, who heads the Svoboda party, urged...

Most types of cancer can be put down to bad luck rather than risk factors such as smoking, a study has suggested. A US team were trying to explain why some tissues were millions of times more...

The Italian Air Force is rescuing hundreds of migrants stranded on a cargo ship apparently abandoned in rough seas by smugglers in the Mediterranean. The Air Force said late Thursday...

A passenger aboard AirAsia Flight 8501 became the first victim of the crash to be returned to her family today, one of many painful reunions to come, as search crews struggled against wind and heavy...

People unable to contact friends and relatives streamed into hospitals Thursday, anxious for information after a stampede during New Year's celebrations in Shanghai's historic waterfront area killed...