Climber survives 1,000 foot fall
A climber who survived a plunge of 1,000 feet from one of Britain's highest mountains still plans to scale Everest this year.
A climber who survived a plunge of 1,000 feet from one of Britain's highest mountains still plans to scale Everest this year.
A New York Police Department Detective has arrived in Russia to gather information about a suicide bombing that killed 35 people at a Moscow airport.
Egyptian police are firing tear gas and beating protesters to clear thousands of people from a central Cairo square after a day of demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak's nearly 30 years in power.
Witnesses say they saw a woman throw herself from the 23rd story of a Buenos Aires hotel today -- and survive.
Russian authorities are saying it was probably a suicide attacker who carried out a deadly bombing at Moscow's busiest airport this afternoon.
Police in Belarus have fingerprinted a deceased journalist in an increasing crackdown on dissent following presidential elections that were seen as fraudulent.
The United States Geological Service has reported a major earthquake in a remote area in southwestern Pakistan measuring 7.4 on the Richter Scale.
It's another blow to Iraq's security efforts, as it tries to show that it can protect itself without foreign help.
Paraguay's president wants police to “exterminate” the activities of a leftist guerrilla group that claimed responsibility for three bombs in the last week.
A lawyer for Jean-Claude Duvalier says the former Haitiam dictator is facing accusations of corruption and embezzlement for allegedly pilfering the treasury before his 1986 ouster.
An official from tiny Luxembourg says the country will invest a large sum in Burkina Faso to help alleviate poverty in the landlocked West African nation.
Polish investigators say Russian air traffic controllers failed to warn the crew of President Lech Kaczynski's plane that it was off course shortly before it crashed last year.
Tunisia's day-old government is already down four ministers today.
Protesters have set themselves on fire in Egypt, Algeria and Mauritania.
What's an Englishman to do when a pint seems just a tad too much?
Iran has invited Russia, China, the European Union and its allies among the Arab and developing world to tour its nuclear sites.
Greece's culture ministry says archaeologists on the island of Crete have discovered what may be evidence of one of the world's earliest sea voyages by humans.
Yemen's interior ministry says two boats carrying more than 80 African migrants have capsized off the Yemeni coast. Most of the passengers are feared drowned.
Officials of a project to build a bridge linking the Italian mainland to Sicily say the architect for New York's Ground Zero Skyscraper is working on designs for a complex to be built on the Calabrian side of the span.
A Puerto Rico man accused of attacking his family with gasoline and a blowtorch has been charged with murder after two of his alleged victims died from their wounds.
The senior U.S. Marine General in Afghanistan says the leaders of the largest tribe in a Taliban stronghold in the southern Helmand province have pledged to halt insurgent attacks and expel foreign fighters.
A Russian icebreaker is laboring through howling winds and heavy snow as it tries to reach icebound ships in the Sea of Okhotsk where more than 500 seamen are trapped.
Egyptian investigators say all but one of the 21 victims of the New Year's attack on a church in Alexandria have been identified.
Hundreds of villagers in Cambodia have flocked to a wedding ceremony between a 16-foot, 200-pound female python and her slightly smaller snake mate.
Iran's official IRNA News Agency says eight convicted drug traffickers have been hanged.
