Foreign Minister George W. Vella attended a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, where he said that Malta is closely following the developments in Libya. Ministers met to discuss...

A Dutchman's attempt at a romantic wedding proposal was simply smashing. The unidentified lover in the central town of Ijsselstein rented a crane, planning to descend in front of his girlfriend's...

A western New York brewery has constructed a Christmas tree out of hundreds of beer kegs. All that's missing is the beer. The Genesee Brewing Co. built the 23-foot (75-feet)-high Christmas tree...

Thousands of Christmas cards are pouring into a small village in Wisconsin that shares its name with the most famous reindeer. The Rudolph Post Office receives more than 10,000 Christmas cards...

An 18-year-old man was killed by a shark on Monday while spearfishing on the Great Barrier Reef off the eastern Australian tourist town of Port Douglas, police said. It was the first fatal shark...

A nation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail against them, are behind U.S. dictionary Merriam-Webster's 2014 word of...

Four armed men have entered an apartment in the western Belgian city of Ghent, and police have blocked off a wide perimeter around the area. Police said Monday that three hours after the men...

A sudden collapse at the site of Ecuador's largest-ever infrastructure project killed 13 people and injured a dozen more, officials said. The Chinese embassy in Quito confirmed that 10 Ecuadorean...

Trade unions are capping a month of labour action against government austerity policies with a general strike that has paralyzed air and rail traffic and idled companies throughout...