A shooting at a US school Friday left 27 people dead, including 18 children, an official said. It was one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.

Italy has summoned India’s ambassador to insist that India’s Supreme Court issue a decision soon concerning two Italian marines detained since February for the deaths of two Indian fishermen mistaken for pirates.

Syria's state news agency said today that a bomb blast near a school in a Damascus suburb killed 16 people, at least half of them women and children.

Rich countries are to blame for climate change and should take the lead in forging a global climate pact by 2015, a deadline that “must be met”, the head of the United Nations said on Wednesday.

A fourth man pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges in the death of a black man who was run over by a pickup truck in Mississippi, and another man admitted he was part of a group of young whites involved in racially motivated attacks against African-Americans.

A fourth man pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges in the death of a black man who was run over by a pickup truck in Mississippi, and another man admitted he was part of a group of young whites involved in racially motivated attacks against African-Americans.

Authorities have demolished a five-story home that stood incongruously in the middle of a new main road and had become the latest symbol of resistance by Chinese homeowners against officials accused o

International Olympic Committee member Randhir Singh fears the Indian Olympic Association may be suspended by the world body for holding elections that contravened IOC standards.

"It does not augur w

Having lost more than 22 kilograms to make his boxing debut, former England cricket captain Andrew Flintoff is leaving open the possibility of fighting again.

Flintoff takes on American fighter Richa

Actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested on Thursday after police said she hit a woman during an argument at a New York City nightclub.