Japanese rescue teams have resumed the search as thousands were stranded and more than 50 people are still missing after Typhoon Talas hit the west of the country, triggering floods and landslides that killed at least 26 people on Shikoku Island on Saturday.
Chris Jeon, a 21-year-old math major at UCLA, has apparently joined the rebel struggle against Colonel Gaddafi, becoming the latest internet sensation.
The UK Metropolitan Police Service's Central e-Crime Unit has arrested two men for suspected involvement with hacktivist collectives Anonymous and LulzSec.
A tsunami warning triggered by a strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake which struck Alaska's Aleutian Islands early Friday morning has been lifted, the US Geological Survey reported.
Japanese Vogue has been criticized after releasing a behind-the-scenes video of Caucasian model Crystal Renn having her eyes taped back to imitate a Japanese face.
The Israeli government is finding itself in an increasingly difficult position after, in addition to being faced with internal and external protests, Turkey has announced its intention to expel the Israeli ambassador and to suspend all remaining military agreements with Israel after details emerged of a United Nations report into last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.
Just days after the Sri Lankan government decided to put an end to its controversial emergency laws, it has introduced new legislation allowing it to continue detaining terror suspects without charge.
The issue of Scottish independence is one that will dominate the parliamentary landscape of the next British parliamentary term but is it a fight that either the coalition government or the Scottish National Party need to be fighting?
Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is a "monster" and the world will be better off without him, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
The U.S. pageant show "Toddlers and Tiaras" has caused outrage by letting a 4-year-old girl with visible fake breasts and a padded bottom participate.
Britain's abortion debate returned to the forefront after a Conservative MP pushed for a new rules on the advice that can be offered to women seeking abortions, charging certain clinics have a financial motive to encourage them.
In his memior, Former Chancellor Alastair Darling accuses Gordon Brown of being a “brutal and volcanic” prime minister who undermined.
Barack Obama's Congressional speech addressing the job creation plan next Wednesday has been postponed by a day after clashing with a Republican debate to be held on the same evening.
The British armed forces are said to be restructured and the RAF in Libya are going to be hit the worst, following a spate of redundancies.
Despite Bahrain recognising the Libyan Transitional Council, it seems that the government is slower to cope with protesters demanding more reforms as sources say clashes between demonstrators and security forces are occurring regularly.
Throughout the last six months, Algeria has been a constant feature of the conflict: imaginary or real ally of Gaddafi, the country has been accused throughout the months of sending troops, arming Gaddafi forces or sheltering the former dictator.
In the last few months European figureheads and leaders have been rocked by a series of scandals, which is set to damage their credibility and ability to criticise other regimes or insist on the necessities of values which they see as inherent to the history of their countries.
RBS Group and HSBC have reportedly seen a surge in customers lodging grievances related to the sale of Payment Protection Insurance.
As violent clashes between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria continue to make more casualties, religious tensions continue to threaten the stability of the country.
British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicholas Sarkozy will jointly host an international conference Thursday to build support for the new administration in Libya.
Three nuclear reactors in southern New Jersey have powered partway down due to debris from the aftermath of hurricane Irene that is now blocking essential cooling water intakes, the Daily Mail has revealed.
Can phone hacking, "alleged" still in the majority of cases, be compared with rioting, looting, arson, murder and assault? This member of the public thinks it doesn't even begin to.
More than a week after the rebels first entered Tripoli, the hunt for Colonel Gaddafi is still on-going.
Vince Cable has denounced bankers as being 'ingenuous' and manipulative of the current economic turmoil. As increasing volatility and outstanding public debt become the focal points for a tottering economy, Cable asserts that it is absolutely, "disingenuous in the extreme to use the current context to argue against reform. Banks are in a way trying to create a panic around something, which they know has got to happen."
The United Nations reported Monday that a deadlier strain of the bird flu virus had been discovered in the Far East.
Hacker collective Anonymous has released a new video outlining several details of its new Occupy Wall Street protest.
Tensions between Israel and Egypt refuse to die down as on Friday hundreds of Egyptians protested outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo to call on the government to expel Israel's ambassador following last week border's incident in which five Egyptian policemen were killed by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).
A car bomb was detonated at the UN offices in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, with reports suggesting as many as 16 people may be dead.
Anna Hazare is still making the headlines as, in addition to being embattled in a fight with the Indian government, the anti-corruption activist's determination to continue his hunger strike, has now been criticised by top ruling party figure Rahul Gandhi, a descendent of one of the most powerful political families in the country.
Follwoing a warning issued on 26 August from The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency advising consumers to check packs of Nurofen Plus for packets of Seroquel XL 50mg, immediate fears began of a possible sabotage.
