The grandfather of a revered Tibetan Buddhist figure died Saturday after setting himself on fire in protest of Chinese rule, the London-based rights group Free Tibet said.

The incident is the latest

Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time in Friday's practice for the Korean Grand Prix, edging Red Bull teammate Mark Webber and Formula One championship leader Fernando Alonso.

Vettel, who has won the

Brazil's sports tribunal has suspended Ronaldinho for one match for a dangerous kick that nearly hit an opponent's face in a Brazilian league match.

Ronaldinho, who plays for Atletico Mineiro, kept h

Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a somewhat unexpected choice by a prize committee that has favored European authors in recent years.

The Swedish Academy, which se

Striking miners killed one man by setting him on fire on Thursday while another was fatally shot, apparently by police, in rekindled labor unrest in South Africa that saw police firing tear gas and ru

A Pakistani official with the World Health Organization says a waterborne parasite commonly known as a 'brain-eating amoeba' has killed 10 people in the country's largest city, Karachi.

Musa Khan, in

The United Nations now says its 2009 headline-grabbing announcement that 1 billion people in the world were hungry was off-target and that the number is actually more like 870 million.

The U.N. Food

A tiny Caribbean airline says one of its small planes has crashed during takeoff at Antigua's airport, killing the pilot.

The status of the three passengers aboard the FlyMontserrat plane is not imm

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has declared her willingness to serve as her country's President and her party's intention to amend the constitution to allow her to do so.

Suu Kyi said on

A US woman who admitted to beating her 2-year-old daughter and gluing her hands to a wall is to be sentenced.

Elizabeth Escalona pleaded guilty July 12 to injury to a child. The young mother is sched