Anton Hammerl, the 41-year-old South African photographer who had gone missing in Libya, is believed to be dead, say his family members.They said he was apparently killed in the Libyan desert by Moammar Gadhafi's forces
Using a region in upheaval as the impetus behind his “Arab spring” speech, President Barack Obama saw to it that the world knew just what it is that America values.
Doomsday prophet Harold Camping is claiming that the Second Coming of Jesus is destined to take place on May 21 which will be coupled with a destructive earthquake followed by the rapture of true Christians.
Masataka Shimizu, the president of Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), which operates Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, has stepped down from his post on Friday.
The peace-deal between Israel and Palestine will be achieved only if the 1967 borders are taken into consideration, says a report published by Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in February 2010.
Some prominent Israeli reporters who are accompanying the Egyptian Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his trip to Washington, has predicted a stormy meeting between him and the US President. Netanyahu and Obama are scheduled for talks at the White House on Friday.
An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale struck western Turkey on Thursday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
History will remember Dominique Strauss-Kahn as a man who put the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the road to decline, and that the new leadership should bring about a fundamental rethink of the fund's economic programs for the European periphery, leading think tank American Enterprise Institute has said.
In a significant step taken by Japanese lawmakers, Japan has decided to join the child-custody agreement, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble announced on Friday that Europe will soon decide on a candidate to become the next chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reports said
A powerful blast in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday morning killed at least one person and injured 10 people, including 2 Americans.
Protesters in Madrid have camped out in the central square for the fourth consecutive night.
The policeman was kidnapped on his way to work, he was taken in a car and paraded around Pearl roundabout and then they took him to Salmanyah Hospital where he was held hostage said a government spokesman, when asked about the incidence.
It's been more than two months since 8.9 magnitude earthquakes struck Japan and took a toll on Japanese people and crippled the economy. Various relief measures are underway at various stages to restore normalcy in the ravaged island nation with aid flowing in from various quarters and volunteers pledging their support to restore the lives.
Despite the ongoing talks to improve ties with former arch-rival Taiwan, China is going to target 1,800 missiles at the country in 2012.
In a hearing at New York's Supreme Court, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was granted bail and released from the Rikers Island prison facility on Thursday.
Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces have faced yet another major blow after Nato air strikes hit eight of his warships on the ports of Tripoli, Al Khums and Sirte.
TRIPOLI- The Syrian refugees fleeing to northern Lebanon were stopped on Thursday, as the Syrian and Lebanese authorities set out to close the border, a local media reported.
A roadside bomb exploded near US consulate vehicle carrying Americans in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing one local person and injuring others, an embassy spokesman told Reuters on Friday.
At least 27 people were killed and around a hundred wounded when a bomb hidden in a car exploded in a parking lot outside the main police offices in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Obama’s speech on Thursday saying, Those borders are not defensible, the Palestinian state must not come at Israel’s expense.
In a much-anticipated address, President Barack Obama’s speech outlined the U.S. policy in the Middle East and North Africa in the middle of the Arab uprisings in the world.
The million-dollar question surrounding the killing of terror master mind Osama Bin Laden seems to have been answered. According to reports, the U.S. government will not pay out the $25 million reward the Department of State had announced years ago for anyone giving clues leading to his capture.
As Annie Jacobsen's new book, AREA 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, is to hit shelves in few days, various media reports are suggesting the major hot spots for UFOs around the world.
President Barack Obama has said Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi will either leave power soon or be forced out. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Gaddafi's wife and daughter Aisha have fled to Tunisia.
A Senate panel reserved angry words for Facebook executives for the social networking giant’s apparent failure in preventing under-age people from having access to the network.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was granted bail Thursday afternoon after spending over four days in Riker's New York jail for allegations on sexually assaulting a hotel maid. Judge Michael Obus offered to remove Strauss-Kahn from the prison cell after a if it was agreed that he post a $1 million bail.
The Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer unveiled an online tax calculator for New York City residents, announced Thursday.
The U.S. national debt hit $14.3 trillion, reaching its legal borrowing limit on Monday.
Tokyo Electric Power Co is likely to book about a 1 trillion yen ($12.3 billion) net loss for its fiscal year that ended in March due to losses from the accident at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
