Palash Ghosh

Tim Hetherington, a well-known British photojournalist, was killed in Misurata, Libya, while covering the civil war in that country, the UK Foreign Office stated.

The Supreme Court of India has urged states to ruthlessly stamp out the practice of honor killings and also warned that government and police officials who failed to prosecute the perpetrators of such crimes would themselves be prosecuted.

The re-election of Goodluck Jonathan as president of Nigeria has led to dozens of killings and thousands of people leaving their homes, according to the Red Cross.

Despite the lifting of emergency laws and other political concessions, unrest in Syria persists.

Prominent fans of the Celtic Football Club have been warned to exercise caution after potentially lethal letter bombs were sent to the team’s manager, Neil Lennon, as well as to two high-profile fans, Lennon’s lawyer Paul McBride QC and Trish Godman, a Labour member of the Scottish parliament.

Yemen has been struck by fresh new violence, one day after a summit in the United Nations failed to reach a consensus on the nation’s crisis.

Italy has now joined France and Britain is sending military advisers to assist rebel forces in Libya.

The British government has rejected a proposed increase in the European Union (EU) Commission’s annual budget as “totally unacceptable” in the current climate of austerity cuts across Europe.

The French government has stated that it will send a small group of military officers to Libya to help advise rebel groups in that country who are fighting a brutal war against Moammar Gaddafi.

While the media in Britain, Europe and the U.S. (and elsewhere) are rapidly ramping up their coverage of the upcoming Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, more than one-third (35 percent) of British adults plan to ignore the festivities altogether, according to a survey by YouGov, internet-based market research firm launched in the UK.

Mike Huckabee would draw many votes in the key Iowa primaries next year if he chose to run on the Presidential ticket, according to a survey by Public Policy Polling (PPP).

A court in Tunisia has dropped charges against a policewoman whose dispute with a fruit vendor inadvertently sparked a crisis that ultimately led to the downfall of the nation’s dictator and spread the seed of revolution across the Arab world.

There are some interesting elements from Donald Trump’s own ancestry. For one thing, “Trump” is not his real name.

The Communist government of Cuba said it will permit people to buy and sell their property for the first time since Fidel Castro took power of the island in 1959, as part of a raft of economic reforms.

The government of Syria, wracked by weeks of relentless protests, has approved a bill that will lift the state of the emergency the country has lived under for 48 years.

Scotland Yard said it has rejected a bid by a radical Islamic group to protest the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton outside of Westminster Abbey.

This video purports to show the body of a dead alien that reportedly crash landed near the town of Irkutsk in Russian Siberia near Lake Baikal in recent weeks.

The British government has said that it will send military officers to Libya to help rebel forces seeking to topple Moammar Gaddafi.

Security forces in the city of Homs in Syria have opened fire to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters, according to media reports and witness accounts.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has suggested he may prevent former Labour PM Gordon Brown from becoming the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Joseph Massino testified today that John Gotti at one time plotted to murder him.

Standard and Poor’s Rating Service cut its outlook on the US Government’s long-term debt to negative this morning and the implications are quite resounding.

The ongoing court testimony by former mafia chieftain Joseph Massino in Brooklyn Federal Court brings back into the public eye the tumultuous events of Massino’s career in the Bonanno crime family, including how the family unwittingly brought in an FBI agent named Joe Pistone (disguised as a jewel thief named Donnie Brasco).

A former aide to ex-Alaska governor Sarah Palin is reportedly set to publish a tell-all book about the 2012 Presidential hopeful

The U.S. State Department has secretly been financing opposition groups in Syria who are protesting against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad, according to diplomatic cables unveiled by WikiLeaks.

At least eight people have been killed during clashes between state security officers and anti-regime protesters in Homs, a town in western Syria, according to reports.

The last Maharajah of Jaipur has died in the western Indian state of Rajasthan after a long illness.

Another suicide bombing in Afghanistan has killed at least two people and injured seven in an attack inside the country’s defense ministry in Kabul.

The British government will assist about 5,000 migrant workers leave Libya, according to the secretary of state for international development secretary, Conservative MP Andre Mitchell.