The NTC received a large boost on Thursday when Russia finally granted its recognition.
Factory activity worldwide stalled last month as new orders tumbled, a series of surveys showed on Thursday, heightening fears that the global economy may be heading for another recession.
A group of scientists identified the headless remains of Ned Kelly, Australia's infamous outlaw, officials said on Thursday. Their discovery has ended a mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Kelly's body — a mystery that dates back 130 years.
Moammar Gadhafi is in a desert town outside Tripoli planning a counterattack, a Libyan military chief said Thursday morning.
Two of Moammar Gadhafi's sons clashed on the airwaves Wednesday, with one offering peace and another promising a 'war of attrition' as a final battle for control of Libya's coast loomed.
It was a DNA sample from one of Kelly's descendants that confirmed that one of the skeletons, which was missing most of its skull, was indeed that of the notorious killer, said Victoria Attorney General Robert Clark.
Global warming and climate change are phenomena that broke the bonds of scientific circles to emerge as a matter of debate between believers and skeptics. Countless studies validating and denying global warming have seen the light of the day, providing fodder for more, often somewhat bitter debates. Within the past month, Nobel Prize winner and leading climate change alarmist Al Gore has called those who deny global warming akin to racists, and pseudo-...
American Bernard Lagat ran like a million bucks to win his 5,000 meters heat at the world championships on Thursday, while Britain's Mo Farah managed to stay out of trouble in a physical second heat to cruise into the final.
The Venice film festival promises a pop superstar and a whiff of scandal Thursday, with Madonna presenting her second feature and Roman Polanski notable by his absence at the world premiere of his new picture.
Just because everyone speaks English, doesn't mean we all speak the same language. Here are some well known (and some surprising) vocab differences between American and British English.
A man from the Channel island of Guernsey became the oldest person to swim across the English Channel on Wednesday. It took him 17 hours.
IBM has agreed to buy British security analytics software firm i2 for an undisclosed sum, it said Wednesday, as it continues to devour companies that can help its clients deal with growing mountains of data.
Samsung's flagship Galaxy S2, touted as the next iPhone killer, is rolling out a white version, again, setting its sight on countering Apple's white iPhone.
Texas juror Jonathan Hudson has plead guilty to contempt of court after trying to befriend the defendant of the case, Courtney Downing.
Global investors slashed their holdings of equities below 50 percent this month and piled into cash, reflecting what was lining up to be the worst August for world stocks since 1998.
Diehard followers of Moammar Gadhafi are refusing to surrender, raising the prospect of new fighting in Libya when an ultimatum expires after this week's Eid holiday.
WikiLeaks said its website had been the target of a cyber attack late on Tuesday as it proceeded with the release of thousands of previously unpublished U.S. diplomatic cables, some still classified.
A Global Exploration Roadmap that will introduce a 25-year scenario for visits beyond Earth orbit is being drawn up by Nasa and their counterparts around the world. The destination?
Widely touted as the iPhone 5 killer, Samsung's Galaxy S2 smartphone has made it to the United States, quelling anticipation, and pre-empting its U.S. rival by at least two months.
After Jia Lin divorced twenty years ago, his wife got both house and son, leaving the Beijing cook with little more than a fresh start.
Here's a bold prediction to feed Western worries that power is shifting inexorably to the East: China's yuan could overtake the U.S. dollar as the world's principal reserve currency as soon as next decade.
A stabbing at the annual Notting Hill Carnival in London ruined the city's hopes of ending the summer without further incident. On Monday, a young man was stabbed in the stomach in the north London neighborhood. He was hospitalized in a critical, but stable, condition.
