The owner of a third winning ticket from the US Mega Millions lottery has come forward to claim their share of last month's record-breaking $656m jack...

Supporters of an Egyptian presidential candidate have hijacked the Facebook page of Barack Obama in a row over immigration papers. The President...

North Korea is pushing ahead with a controversial rocket launch despite growing international condemnation. All three stages of the rocket have be...

Christians are by no means strangers to reenactments of Bible scenes – everyone's been in or seen a nativity play. But a minority of very, very d...

Thai police have arrested a man who held his own wife hostage at knifepoint on a Bangkok street. Sakdawut Hamsiri, 30, believed to be under the inf...

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond today rejected claims Britain would be unable to defend the Falklands against a fresh Argentinean assault as both cou...

Argentinian veterans have remembered fallen comrades in a service to mark the 30th anniversary of the Falklands conflict. The veterans gathered in...

Widows of soldiers killed in the Falklands conflict gathered on Monday for a service of remembrance. On the anniversary of the Argentinian invasion...

A cruise ship with reportedly up to 60 Britons on board was drifting in seas south of the Philippines today after a fire in one of the ship's engine r...

The funeral for an exiled Tibetan protester who set himself on fire in protest at a visit from the Chinese president to India takes place today. J...

An exiled Tibetan protester who set himself on fire in protest at a visit from the Chinese president to India on Monday has died in hospital. The p...

A skin-like plastic that "bleeds" when cut or scratched and then heals has been developed by scientists. The material could provide self-healing su...

Most women who have been through the horrific ordeal of a violent assault have a number of compelling reasons for preferring to remain anonymous - fear of revenge, stigma and a desire to forget are some of them. Maimouna Konè (her real name) is a remarkable exception.

The fight in the run up to Sunday's elections in Hong Kong was a nasty one. Mud was slung and neither of the two main candidates for the post of chief executive came away looking good.

Sir Richard Branson is determined to press ahead with his own undersea venture following the success of film director James Cameron's journey to the d...

A Tibetan has set fire to himself in protest over the ownership of the Tibet region in New Delhi, India, ahead of a visit by Chinese president Hu Jint...