When do you not listen to the African wildlife expert? When he tells you to stand closer to the rhino.   That suggestion by a South African game park owner resulted in serious injuries to a...

Tokyo's Narita International Airport operator says 3,400 travellers spent the night in the terminal after snow caused airlines to cancel 71 flights.   In the season's first snowfall...

    A Milan court on Monday rejected a bid by former Premier Silvio Berlusconi to halt his sex-for-hire trial because of Italy's general election campaign, a ruling that means a...

A Japanese official says a woman in his town near Tokyo who became world's oldest living female just last month has died at 115.    Koto Okubo died Saturday at a nursing home in...

A passenger has given birth aboard a plane flying to Armenia and named her daughter after one of the flight attendants who helped with the delivery.     The birth of the healthy baby...

A "Death Star" won't be a part of the U.S. military's arsenal any time soon.   More than 34,000 people have signed an online petition calling on the Obama administration to...

The former Kate Middleton is due to give birth to her first baby in July, and her health is improving after a bout of severe morning sickness, palace officials said Monday.   The child of...

British Prime Minister David Cameron says he hopes to negotiate fundamental changes in his country's membership of the European Union which can then be put to the country in a...

Millions of devout Hindus have plunged into the holy Ganges River in India in a ritual they believe can wash away their sins.   Monday is considered the most auspicious day of the Kumbh...

    Holding aloft ancient flags and young children, hundreds of thousands of people converged Sunday on the Eiffel Tower to protest the French president's plan to legalize gay...