Within the last month and a half, the corpses of 12 endangered finless porpoises, including a pregnant one, have been found around Dongting Lake, Hunan province.
Iran accused its Gulf Arab neighbors on Wednesday of interfering in its internal affairs after they described a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a tiny island - claimed by Iran and the c - as a "provocative act".
The Nasdaq turned positive on Wednesday, helped by strength in large-cap Internet shares Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O).
A hijacker hit and killed a street cleaner when he lost control of a stolen car during a high-speed chase in Bedfordview, East Rand, on Wednesday, said Ekurhuleni metro police.
GROZNY, Russia - Geologists in Russia's volatile Chechnya region have discovered what they believe to be fossilized dinosaur eggs laid by one of the huge extinct reptiles that roamed the Earth more than 60 million years ago.
Kelli Bordeaux Missing: Missing Fort Bragg Soldier May Be In Danger, Cops Say
Here is a look at Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, the 88-year-old who has ruled the southern African country for more than three decades.
Residents of the Austrian village @!$%#ing will vote later this week on changing its name. Locals, or @!$%#ingers as they are known, say they are sick of visitors stealing signs.
A special clock in London’s Trafalgar Square counts down to the city hosting the Olympic Games 100 days from now. England’s capital is expecting an estimated five million extra visitors and the chairman of the International Olympic Committee coordination commission …
India announced plans Wednesday to test launch a new long-range missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead as far as the Chinese capital Beijing for the first time.
Apple Inc's results will be dissected more closely than ever next week, after a share swoon raised concerns on Wall Street that the stock's gravity-defying rally may be losing steam.
A missing Alberta couple has been found after search and rescue crews spent two days combing the B.C. backcountry.
Gasoline prices appear to have peaked more than a month earlier than usual this year at less than $4 a gallon, reflecting reduced tensions with Iran and declining demand for fuel in the U.S. and China, oil analysts say.
Swiss drugmaker Roche (ROG.VX) said on Wednesday it would not extend a $6.8 billion hostile offer for genetic specialist Illumina (ILMN.O) as the U.S. group's shareholders blocked its move to appoint new directors.
President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma were shown on Syrian state TV packing food aid, an apparent effort to burnish the image of a first couple derided for ordering luxury goods on the Internet while their country burns.
Time Magazine’s 2012 list of 100 most influential people in the world, released on Wednesday morning, featured a healthy mix of global leaders, artists and rebels as usual.
Remains of Syrian Soldiers who Perished in 1982 Israeli Invasion Found in Kfarhouna
Japan said on Tuesday it had won approval from Beijing to buy Chinese government bonds for the first time, in a move aimed at binding Asia's two biggest economies and traditional rivals closer together.
Crime boss Oleg Gagiyev was sentenced Tuesday by a military court to life in prison for arranging the murders of high-ranking officials in the government of North Ossetia, including the mayor of the republic's capital Vladikavka …
Syria has planted landmines near its borders with Lebanon and Turkey, along routes used by refugees fleeing the strife-torn country, Human Rights Watch (HRW) charged on Tuesday.
Turkey's prime minister says the next meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria group will take place in Istanbul on April 2. Turkey has expressed hope that Russia and China, who shunned the previous conference in Tunisia, would join the upcoming meeting.
Sri Lanka has imposed censorship on security-related mobile phone messages despite the withdrawal last year of tough emergency laws following the end of its separatist war with Tamil rebels.
French actor Olivier Martinez has confirmed that he and Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry are engaged to marry, a report said.
The European Union, United States and Japan formally asked the World Trade Organization on Tuesday to settle a dispute with China over Beijing's restriction on exports of raw materials, including rare earth elements critical to major industries.
Eating a portion of processed red meat daily can boost a person's risk of dying young by up to 20 percent, said a long-running U.S. study of more than 120,000 people released on Monday.
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