Japanese whalers have shot water cannons at anti-whaling activists, the conservationist group's founder claimed, hours after the activists tracked down the hunting fleet in...
Dazzling fireworks lit up Australia's Sydney Harbour, communist Vietnam held a rare, Western-style countdown to the new year, and Japanese revellers released balloons carrying...
Mexico's federal police said that the once-fearsome La Familia drug cartel has been "completely dismembered" and has broken down into small groups that commit...
Pope Benedict XVI marked the final hours of 2010 with public prayer and a word of concern for families struggling with economic troubles.Benedict gave...
The co-executors of Michael Jackson's estate said the Discovery Channel has heeded their request that they cancel a show purporting to re-enact the dead...
Ivory Coast's incumbent leader who refuses to cede power is describing international efforts to oust him a "coup d'etat".In an address broadcast on state...
Engineers are continuing the mammoth task of repairing the leaks that crippled Northern Ireland's water system.Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy said an independent probe...
