Need a condom delivered to your doorstep in an hour? Then Dubai is the place to be.   Already the launching pad for American fast-food restaurants and a Canadian coffee shop, the glittering...

Model Naomi Campbell accepted libel damages Thursday from a British newspaper over a story that falsely claimed she was planning an elephant polo match in India for her partner's...

Missing: One golden cookie, weighing around 20 kilogrammes.   Suspect: The Cookie Monster?   The rectangular gilded bronze sculpture was part of a statue gracing the facade of...

Cyprus has been forced to reprint all 575,000 ballot slips for next month's presidential election after Guinness World Records objected to a candidate's use of its logo, officials said...

One of the most troubling outcomes of the ongoing financial crisis has been a collapse of trust in democratic institutions and politicians. Indeed, in 2012, the global public-relations firm...

Public transport workers in the Greek capital have walked off the job in a 24-hour strike, snarling traffic around Athens, while a doctors' strike has left hospitals functioning with emergency...

    Royalty means rarely having to mind the gap.   Britain's Prince Charles took a ride on the London subway Wednesday — for the first time in a quarter...

Germans are emptying fewer beer steins these days.   Consumption of the national beverage fell by 1.8 percent last year to the lowest level since West and East Germany reunified in...

The vandals that damaged a U.S. cemetery this week have pleaded "moo."   Police say a small herd of cows knocked over 40 flags and veterans' grave markers, then snacked on a...

Protesters from a Communist-back labor union forced their way into a government building Wednesday, and clashed with police who used tear gas to expel them.   At least one person was taken...