The United States' top spy agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, deployed its latest stealth drone planes on dozens of secret missions to monitor the movements in the compound of Osama bin Laden before a team of crack Navy SEALs commandos launched the daring May 2 raid that killed the world's top terrorist.
The police in South Korea has ruled that the death of a taxi driver who was crucified on a wooden cross in an apparent recreation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was a suicide.
Moderate wage increases in Australia's states have temporarily eased the pressure on a planned interest rate adjustment by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) next month.
New World Bank report predicts that half of all global growth will come from six emerging economies by year 2025.
A demonstration against the NSW government gathered thousands of protesters on Sydney for the administration to stop trimming down the solar benefit scheme.
As the IMF grapples with a possible leadership succession process while its top official remains in a New York jail, Asian names have surfaced
Key independent MP Rob Oakeshott thought fuel should not be subject to carbon tax, positioning him in conflict with Greens members of the multi-party climate change committee.
Amnesty International demands explanation from the federal government regarding its plan with 100 plus asylum seekers who have arrived since it announced its new refugee policy.
A Brazilian court has ruled that 36-year-old female accountant Ana Catarian Bezerra can legally masturbate at work and watch port on her work computer citing chemical imbalance that triggers severe anxiety and hypersexuality.
Hundreds of South Korean sex workers, including prostitutes and pimps took to the streets near a red-light district in the capital Seoul to demand from the police to slowdown on their campaign against brothels and the sex trade.
The Reserve Bank has confirmed anticipations of interest rate growths. According to the government, the policy positions held by the opposition has added to the rate pressures as it would wipe almost $7 billion off the budget bottom line.
At $1,000 or £600, the Marquis Los Cabos resort in Baja California Sur, a hotel resort in Mexico, has introduced the world's most expensive ice lolly.
A Chinese man has locked himself inside a hospital in China's southwest Yunnan Province ans has refused to leave after accusing medical staff of tattooing his right buttock while he was unconscious during a surgery.
Residents in the city of Armidale in rural New South Wales today became the first centre in mainland Australia to be connected to the National Broadband Network.
A group of women in Saudi Arabia banded together to form a movement seeking to end the country's discriminatory laws particularly male guardianship.
Leading manufacturer British American Tobacco Australia (BATA) on Tuesday launched a national media campaign against the Federal Government's proposed plan to impose plain packaging on cigarettes that could harm marketing and sales.
The leadership of International Monetary Fund is now in disarray with the arrest and detention of managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn by the New York City police.
Australia's Reserve Bank has hinted that higher interest rates maybe inevitable to contain the jump in consumer prices, authorities said.
After three months of ending his fiery flirtations to the presidential race, business mogul, Donald Trump cowered and decided that politics is not one among his cup of tea.
A 42-uear-old woman from Austria landed in a swimming pool after swerving to avoid a rabbit in the road.
A video showing a Russian man who was so drunk he made phone calls using a packet of cigarettes, has went viral.
He "hitched" a ride to escape his father to meet with his mom, but ended up 620 miles off his destination.
Responding to the impact of federal and international sanctions, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) today adopted a plan to divest shares of the remaining public companies operating in specific segments of the Iran and Sudan economies. New investments in these companies would be blocked as well.
A recent poll indicated that Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s ratings experienced decline as the federal government’s deal for asylum-seekers exchanges with Malaysia has taken its toll on Julia Gillard.
The Guinness World Book of Records has rejected the bid of a Philippine city to set a new world record for the most number of boys participating in a so-called "Tule (Circumcision) Party." Guinness said it cannot accept Marikina City's bid due to hygiene concerns.
An 18-year-old Chinese boy who lost nearly half of his body three years ago in the massive Sichuan earthquake has transformed himself as one of the country's top swimmers.
The police in Michigan has arrested a man hanging off the ledge of a 30ft building while dressed as 'Batman."
An all-female sect in Russia has anointed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and believes the tough-talking former top Russian spy, is a reincarnation of the early Christian missionary Paul.
Although Prime Minister Gillard takes a narrow lead of three points against Opposition leader Tony Abbot, her popularity ratings continue to drop.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday claimed that notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden was a prisoner in U.S. custody for "sometime" before he was killed by American forces in a daring raid in Pakistan early this month.
