An earthquake registering 7.2 in the southern Pacific Ocean near island of Vanuatu triggered a tsunami warning.

Spanish Parliament narrowly passed plans for a severe budget by just one vote on Thursday.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is now using social media to try to keep a grip on the country.

A strike by 15,000 Air India crew members, which began on Tuesday, was stopped on Wednesday.

The Iraqi Cabinet dissolved state-owned airline Iraqi Airways due to a conflict with Kuwait.

At least 158 people have died in a plane crash in the Indian city of Mangalore on Saturday.

The tail section of the Pamir Airways passenger plane that crashed Monday has been located.

Dutch anti-terrorism office and Danish authorities were unshaken by comments made by Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani.

Six Somali pirates, captured by Yemeni forces in April last year, were sentenced to death by a Yemen ...

An explosion in a state-run coal mine in northern Turkey trapped up to 32 workers and wounded 11 ...

Commercial fishing activities could end by 2050 without action, said a Green Economy preview report.

An offshore gas platform sank off the coast of Venezuela Thursday.

Ten pirates captured by the Russian navy last week near Somalia were put in an inflatable boat without ...

Labor union Unite, representing 90 percent of cabin crew called for yet another strike Monday.

A strike by Maoist protesters in Nepal's capital turned violent on its fifth day.

The Russian navy has successfully recaptured oil tanker Moscow University and its 23 crew members.

The 200-day solo sailing voyage around the world by Jessica Watson is expected to conclude on May 15.

A Russian warship rushed to the scene after a Russian oil tanker was hijacked by Somali pirates.

The original diaries of Anne Frank have finally made their way back to her house in Amsterdam.

Hope in President Barack Obama fell among Palestinian adults, a recent poll found.

A luxury train derailed just outside the South African city of Pretoria, killing two people and injuring dozens.

The Royal British Navy's latest assignment is retrieving about 150,000 stranded Brits from France and Spain.

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, only acknowledged by Turkey, has elected nationalist Dervis Ergolu as new president.

Rescue workers are having trouble reaching all parts of Northeastern India that was hit by a cyclone.

Historic five-day presidential, parliamentary and local elections in Sudan closed on Thursday.

2,000 public officers accompanied two excavation machines to the site currently used by hundreds of illegal inhabitants.

Organizers are now trying to sell 500,000 tickets to locals.