Wildfire rips through 150 homes in Northern California

(Reuters) - Fire crews in California battled on Tuesday to halt the advance of wildfire that has already destroyed about 150 homes, lapped ...

U.N. peacekeepers in Golan freed

The 45 U.N. peacekeepers seized in the Golan Heights have been freed and are in good condition, the United Nations said Thursday. The peac...

Bomb explodes near court in Cairo before constitutional poll, no casualties

A bomb exploded outside a court in Cairo on Tuesday morning, minutes before the referendum on Egypt's new draft constitution kicks off, ...

UN chief in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi leaders

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon held meetings on Monday with Iraqi leaders and urged them to deal with the roots of the problems in Anbar...

U.S., Russia propose "localized" ceasefire in Syria ahead of peace talks

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday he and Russia n Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the possibility of a ceasefire in Sy...

New fossil reveals evolution of hind limbs: study

An analysis of the well- preserved pelves and a partial pelvic fin from Tiktaalik roseae, a 375 million-year-old transitional species betwee...

60 killed in ongoing clashes in Iraq's Anbar province

At least 60 people were killed and some 297 others wounded in clashes between the security forces and militant groups over the past two week...

Ten US Air Force officers investigated over drugs

The US Air Force is now investigating 10 officers at six military bases for alleged illegal drug possession, service officials report. Nin...

Woman and two young boys found dead in Brent

A murder investigation has been launched after a woman and two young boys were found dead in a house in Brent, north-west London. The bodi...

Priest shot dead in Brazil church

Police in Brazil say two gunmen have killed an evangelical priest at his church in the city of Belo Horizonte. The gunmen reportedly entered...

Man killed in stolen car collision

A 22-year-old Dunmurry man has been killed after the stolen car he was driving was involved in a collision with a van on the outskirts of so...

Lightning kills three people on beach in Argentina

A lightning strike has killed three people and injured more than 20 others in a coastal town of Argentina. Reports from Villa Gesell, south-...

Heart attack 'leaves cellular trace'

Patients who have a heart attack have unique cells floating in their blood, say US researchers. Their study on 111 people, published in th...

Volkswagen's luxury car brands, record sales

Porsche's deliveries jumped 15%, Audi's 8.3% and Bentley posted a growth of 19% in 2013, from a year earlier. Demand for luxury ...

Afghan Taliban prisoners to be freed

Afghanistan will release scores of prisoners considered by the US to be a security threat, President Hamid Karzai's office has said. A s...

Afghanistan to free 72 inmates seen "dangerous" by U.S.: statement

The Afghan government said Thursday it would set free 72 out of 88 suspected Taliban inmates regarded by the United States as "dangero...

Syrian troops kill 45 rebels in Homs

At least 45 rebel fighters were killed on Thursday in Syria's central province of Homs, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human R...

Germany to destroy effluent from Syrian chemicals

According to the international chemical watchdog, Germany will dispose of 370 metric tons of effluent to be generated by the hydrolysis of S...

27 Afghan militants killed in raids

Twenty-seven militants were killed in a series of military operations across Afghanistan since early Sunday, said the country's Interior...

Afghan police arrests would-be suicide bomber child

Police in south Afghanistan arrested a 10 years old would-be suicide bomber on Sunday, a statement of the Interior Ministry released here Mo...