Photo from youtube. Oslo: One person aboard a North Sea drilling rig was killed when the vessel was struck by a huge wave,...
Photo from youtube. Oslo: One person aboard a North Sea drilling rig was killed when the vessel was struck by a huge wave,...
Ouagadougou: Burkina Faso's Salif Diallo, a former right-hand man of ousted president Blaise Compaore, was on Wednesday elected head of the national assembly,...
Belgian authorities said a firework display and festivities to welcome the New Year that drew 100,000 people last year would not go ahead...
Malian Prime Minister Modibo Keita (2nd R) stands next to Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (3rd R) during the funerals of five victims...
Martin Sabbatella, the Argentine media-regulatory chief dismissed by President Mauricio Macri on December 23 2015, has denied that the president had authority to...
Chicago: Soldiers and volunteers packed sand bags Wednesday in a frantic effort to stave off floodwaters in the US state of Missouri, where...
MOSCOW: A Crimean official said on Thursday that Ukraine had cut off a major source of electrical power to the region, a month...
Georgia, whose Republican Governor Nathan Deal (pictured) has vowed to block entry to Syrian refugees, cannot deny them resettlement within the state or...
Warsaw: Poland's conservative government took control of state media Wednesday after new legislation giving it the power to directly appoint the heads of...
San Francisco: Uber said Wednesday it made its billionth trip in a new milestone for the global ridesharing service. "Marvin and Ara just...
Caption Tokyo: A giant squid that wandered into a Japanese port has been guided back out to sea almost a week after it...
Wylfa Power Station is seen behind the village of Cemaes, northern Wales February 22, 2013. Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett Britain closed its oldest nuclear reactor...
Mexico City: Two marines and a criminal suspect were killed in a shootout in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, the homeland of...
Representative image ROME: The international relief organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres is to halt its services helping migrants in parts of Sicily, saying on...
Brussels: Belgian police detained for questioning one person on Wednesday following a new search in the troubled Brussels immigrant neighborhood of Molenbeek in...
The main gate at the former German Nazi death camp of Auschwitz II (Birkenau). Note that this is inside the camp looking back...
The attack occurred on Tuesday night near the UNESCO heritage site in Derbent, (pictured) which claims to be Russia's oldest city and celebrated...
New York: US comic Bill Cosby has been charged with sexual assault in Pennsylvania over an incident that took place in 2004, a...
