Eight dead children and a woman suffering from stab wounds were found inside a home in a northern Australian city on Friday, police said. Queensland state police said they were called to the home...

Government staff in the UK sending festive emails have been urged to not to say Merry Christmas. The extraordinary advice was sent this week to avoid offending people of other faiths and...

The European Court of Justice says obesity can be a disability, a ruling that could have consequences for employers across the continent. The court ruled Thursday in the case of a Danish...

Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed Thursday to fix Russia's economic woes within two years, pledging to diversify the gas-dependent economy and persuade businesses to help prop up the collapsing...

Martina Navratilova and her long-time partner Julia Lemigova were married in New York City on Monday, the couple confirmed to the BBC. Speaking to the news service shortly after the...

Italian actress Virna Lisi passed away today, aged 78. Well-loved by young and old, Virna Lisi, born in Ancina in 1936, began her career in her early teens, debuting in The Line of Steel in...

After a half-century of Cold War acrimony, the United States and Cuba moved on Wednesday to restore diplomatic relations - a historic shift that could revitalize the flow of money and people...

Ting Su, 29, caught bed-hopping husband Cheng, 30, romping naked in a car-park along with her twin sister after using a mobile phone tracker to locate their whereabouts, The Mirror...

The siege at the Sydney cafe had been going on for more than five hours and 82-year-old John O'Brien had become convinced the gunman was insane and they would likely all end up...

The Taliban massacre that killed 148 people, mostly children, at a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan left a scene of heart-wrenching devastation, pools of blood and young lives...