Flooding sparked by heavy seasonal rains has killed two people and forced nearly 16,000 to flee their homes on Malaysia's east coast.   Authorities have evacuated...

Gerry Anderson, British creator of the hit "Thunderbirds" TV show, has died at age 83.   Anderson's son Jamie said his father died peacefully in his sleep on Wednesday. In a...

    Blind and alone in Alaska winter temperatures that dipped 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-40 degrees Celsius), a lost 8-year-old Fairbanks dog wasn't given much of a chance...

The upper chamber of Russia's parliament on Wednesday unanimously voted in favor of a measure banning Americans from adopting Russian children. It now goes to President Vladimir Putin to sign or...

    Spanish police have seized 11 metric tons of hashish smuggled from Morocco on trucks with tanks rigged to hide the drugs. Thirty five people were arrested in what was described as...

    Angry residents beat a man to death and threw rocks at firefighters after a shantytown fire left thousands of people homeless, and another Christmas Day blaze in the Philippine...

Queen Elizabeth II has hailed the holidays in a new dimension, delivering her Christmas message for the first time in 3D.    In the annual, prerecorded broadcast, the monarch paid...

    A flight packed with Christmas tourists crash-landed on a road in central Myanmar on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring 11, officials said.   Four foreigners were...

    Japan's ousted ruling party named a new leader to replace Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda as its chief. The move comes ahead of a vote in parliament to install a new government...

    Pope Benedict XVI marked Christmas Eve with Mass in St. Peter's Basilica and a pressing question: Will people find room in their hectic, technology-driven lives for children,...