MISS Venezuela was the fairest of them all once again, winning the 2009 Miss Universe crown for the second year straight and the sixth time…
RELIGIOUS authorities in Malaysia postponed yesterday the caning of a Muslim woman convicted of drinking alcohol until after the holy month of Ramadan. The planned…
NORTH Korea announced yesterday it had agreed to resume reunions of families separated by the border with South Korea and restart stalled tourism ventures in…
UNITED States police boats and divers recovered a piece of a submerged helicopter and a fourth body early yesterday as investigators resumed their search for…
HUNDREDS of police officers were scouring the streets of Tel Aviv today in a door-to-door manhunt for a gunman who opened fire on a gay…
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found five well-preserved Roman shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of vases, pots and other objects…
THE Disney movie “G-Force” shows a squad of specially trained, computer-generated guinea pig spies coming to the world’s rescue. After the movie comes out, though,…
AT least 17 people were killed when a passenger plane caught fire during its landing in northeastern Iran yesterday, the state IRNA news agency reported.…
THE United States and India said yesterday that they had agreed on a defence pact that takes a major step toward allowing the sale of…
THE first astronauts to walk on the moon want United States President Barack Obama to aim for a new goal: Mars. Early this morning (Singapore…