As natural disaster batter the world's agricultural industry, fears are growing that we may be heading into the dark food crisis days of 2007 and...

Over 200 women and children have been raped by rebels in the Congo in recent weeks, according to UN...

A US cartoonist's attempt to make a statement about the violence in Mexico backfired with his use of the Mexican flag and its national symbol, the Mexican...

Christchurch residents are taking stock of the damage to their city following the major earthquake that struck in the early hours of Saturday morning with local officials calling the lack of fatalities a...

The Peruvian Amazon has suffered a major dry spell with the Amazon River's water levels dropping...

A popular medication for the prevention of osteoporosis doubles the chances of developing cancer, according to a recent UK...

A massive traffic jam has developed in China's Inner Mongolia on the Beijing Tibet Highway just days after another major snarl was...

Mount Sinabung in Indonesia has sent more ash billowing into the air, prompting the evacuation of villagers who'd begun to return to their...

A plane has crashed in the United Arab Emirates in the city of Dubai, killing both pilots of the...

A plane has crashed in New Zealand's South Island killing all nine passengers...

Miami police swooped on the main airport on Friday when screeners detected a suspicious article in a checked...

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in the south of Afghanistan after touching down on...

25 or more people have died in a gunfight between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug gang members near the northern Mexican city of...

Nine people were killed when a skydive plane crashed at Fox Glacier airport in New...

The relief effort in the area hit by floods in Pakistan may be helped by a new request for Muslims to tithe for the aid...

WELLINGTON, Sept 4, 2010 (AFP) - - Nine people, including four foreigners, were killed when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at a popular New Zealand tourist spot Saturday, officials...

An 18-year-old Victorian man has died in a plane crash on Fox Glacier, on New Zealand's South Island, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed.The skydiving aircraft crashed while...

An Irish tourist is among nine people who have been killed in a plane crash in New Zealand. The accident happened at Fox Glacier Airport on the west coast of the country's South Island. The...

Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband vehemently denied reports yesterday that he would have the star's body preserved by plastination after her death. Prince Frederic von Anhalt talked to reporters outside his...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A 7.4-magnitude earthquake damaged much of New Zealand's South Island early yesterday, but by evening there had been just two reports of serious injury -- including a...

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks yesterday, warning that the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long...

WASHINGTON -- The DC interior designer charged with committing fraud to get a $1.3 million homeland-security contract sued the feds to try to collect $130,000 under the very same contract, court...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama lauded the modest job-growth numbers released yesterday, but said still-rising unemployment numbers mean there's more that needs to be done -- new measures that will be...

In a one-in-a-million twist of fate, a Bronx nurse welcoming a terminal-cancer patient to her unit discovered he was her long lost father, who had vanished when she was just months old. "It was fate...

"American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi is leaving the show, in a strong indication that pop diva Jennifer Lopez has made a deal to replace her, a source said. Reports late this week said J.Lo was very...

A Briton is among nine people who died when a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashed and burst into flames near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps.The plane caught...

Wellington - Nine people, including four foreign tourists, died Saturday when a light aircraft on a sky-diving flight crashed at Fox Glacier on New Zealand's South Island.Police said the tourists...

The state news agency WAM, quoting the General Civil Aviation Authority, reported that the "bodies of two pilots" had been found at the scene.The plane went down inside a UAE air base near...

SYDNEY: An 11-year-old boy is recovering after being mauled by a sea lion at a popular Sydney zoo in front of horrified visitors. The boy was identified by his stepmother as Jack Lister. He had been...

PAKISTAN: A suicide bombing claimed by the Pakistani Taleban killed at least 43 Shiite Muslims at a procession in southwest Pakistan. The assault sharply drove up the toll of sectarian assaults in a...

HONDURAS: A Honduran who survived the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico helped untie the only other survivor - a wounded Ecuadorean - and the two fled together. In an interview with El Heraldo...

BALTIMORE: A security guard who called police after a gunman entered Discovery Channel's headquarters calmly told the operator: "You're probably going to need a sniper." The call, released Friday,...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Nine people have died after a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company burst into flames and crashed Saturday near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's...

Nine people, including four foreigners, have been killed in a light aircraft crash in New Zealand, say reports. The plane, owned by a skydiving company, burst into flames shortly after taking off at...

One of Scotland's largest local authorities has warned that it may have to cut more than 1,000 jobs. North Lanarkshire Council is set to discuss ways of saving £70m over the next three years. ...

A group of former rugby players who survived more than two months of isolation in the Andes after their plane crashed are in Chile to support 33 miners trapped...

NINE people including an Australian tourist have died in a light plane crash near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, police said...

AN Australian tourist is among nine people to have died in a light plane crash near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, police said...

The plane, belonging to a skydiving company, burst into flames after takeoff from an airstrip at Fox Glacier, said Ian Henderson, a spokesman for local ambulance services.Greymouth Police Senior...

Oaxaca, Mexico - At least six people, including two Mexican federal lawmakers and a governor, were killed when their small plane crashed in southern Mexico on Friday, the attorney general's office...

Blackwater 61 "Blackwater 61" is the call sign of a plane flown by the embattled government contractor Blackwater that crashed into a mountain in Afghanistan killing all onboard. The widow of one of...

Christina Romer, outgoing chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, addresses a breakfast meeting of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., Aug. 6,...

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2009 file photo, Kara DioGuardi of "American Idol" arrives at the FOX Winter All-Star Party in Los Angeles. Fox TV says Kara DioGuardi is leaving as `American Idol' judge,...

FILE - This file photo taken April 9, 2010,, shows a Google sign at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma,...

SYDNEY, Sept. 4 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A pilot and eight passengers died Saturday after a small plane crashed just after taking off at Fox Glacier on New Zealand's South Island, a local report said. ...

WELLINGTON (AFP) – Nine people, including foreigners, were killed when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at a popular New Zealand tourist spot Saturday, police and media said. ...