The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden broke his silence Monday, recounting in an interview the night he shot the Al-Qaeda leader three times and the financial anxiety he now faces as an unemployed civilian.

Indie pop band Fun., rockers The Black Keys and Australian-Belgian singer Gotye shared the top prizes Sunday at the Grammys, in an eclectic year for the music industry’s biggest awards show.

US television network CBS may have warned stars not to show too much skin on stage Sunday at the Grammys, but the music industry’s A-listers tested the limits in body-conscious, revealing gowns.

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday announced he would resign, citing old age, in a stunning announcement that marked a first in the modern history of the Catholic Church.

Pope Benedict XVI today announced he will resign on February 28, a Vatican spokesman said, which will make him the first pope to do so in centuries.

Nine miners were feared trapped after an explosion Monday at their mine in the Komi region in Russia’s Far North, the emergencies ministry said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron today urged Scotland to avoid breaking the nation apart, saying that it had the best of both worlds as things are.

The screenwriter of Lincoln, which has 12 Oscar nominations, conceded on Friday that the taut political drama changed the historical record for “15 seconds,” after a legislator complained.

HOLD ON to your hats: an asteroid will zoom within spitting distance of earth next week, in what Nasa said on Thursday is the closest flyby ever predicted for an object this large.

France’s Louvre museum shut down one of its galleries on Friday after a woman vandalised an iconic painting by Delacroix by writing on it with a black marker.