A Russian artist in Siberia has spent a small personal fortune on over a thousand pearls for a religious painting he has made for the Queen.

Clad in embroidered robes, Adam and Eve sit in thrones on

The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant started paying 'condolence money' on Tuesday to victims of the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl while it kept pouring radioactive water into th

India has imposed a three-month ban on imports of food articles from the whole of Japan on fears that radiation from an earthquake-hit nuclear plant was spreading to other parts of the country, becomi

Arkansas students who love their sagging pants should soon leave them at home.

Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe signed a bill on Wednesday that bans students from wearing clothing that exposes "underwear

Nobody has been able to stop Novak Djokovic all year but the Serbian world number two, fresh from his latest triumph, said it is too soon to entertain any talk of him as the world's best.

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Six times, Sergei Belyakov says, he has been through the doorway to hell and back.

The Ukrainian-American was a volunteer ‘jumper’ who helped clean up after the nuclear disaster in the town of Cherno

Elsie Eiler is the most admired person in Monowi, Neb. She is also the smartest, wealthiest, best-looking and youngest.

"And the oldest," she is quick to add.

When you are the only resident of a com

The royal wedding is off! Oh no it's not, it's an April Fools' joke.

The big royal occasion later this month was the top target for traditional April 1 pranks in the press on Friday, including bride-

Japan's prime minister made his first visit to the country's tsunami-devastated region on Saturday as the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear complex said it had found radioactive water leaking

Libya has sent a senior aide to one of leader Muammar Gaddafi's sons to London for talks with British officials, the Guardian newspaper reported on Friday.

Citing unidentified British government sour