Japan goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima after the Netherlands’ Wesley Sneijder scored a goal during their World Cup group E match at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Saturday. The Netherlands won 1-0.

The pirate cook smuggled food to the terrified hostages held by his gang off the Somali coast. He bought them cell phone cards. And when the pirates started talking about harvesting their organs for cash, he sneaked them guns. The hostages killed the pirates and escaped. But now the life of the Somali cook, known only as Ahmed, is in danger.

Reliance Industries Ltd CMD Mukesh Ambani (centre) arrives with his wife Nita (right) and mother Kokilaben to address the annual shareholders’ meeting in Mumbai on Friday.

A 53-year-old man who hoarded more than a million child pornography pictures and videos has been arrested, Austrian authorities said on Friday.

Afghanistan’s untapped mineral wealth is worth at least $3 trillion — triple a US estimate, according to the government’s top mining official, who is going to Britain next week to attract investors to

A flamboyant British book dealer accused of stealing a rare first edition of Shakespeare’s plays has appeared in court to face trial.

It was built to withstand nuclear war, a secret bunker to shelter Communist Yugoslavia’s strongman and his inside circle.

Far from the glare of Hollywood lights, the CIA on Tuesday premiered a nonfiction film produced for the agency that recounts the mystique and the misery of a botched James Bond-like spy mission in Chi

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo is shown a yellow card by referee Jorge Larrionda during his team’s Fifa World Cup match against Ivory Coast at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday.

Ireland announced on Tuesday it’s expelling an Israeli diplomat in punishment for the alleged Mossad use of forged Irish passports to assassinate a top Hamas official in Dubai.