The number of weather-related disasters has quadrupled over the past 20 years and the world should do more to prepare for them, the aid agency Oxfam says.
Forest fires near Malibu in California have destroyed dozens of homes and forced the evacuation of 10,000 people, officials have said.
If you thought Turkey was no threat to the West, think again. For the AKP, democracy is merely a means to a higher Islamic goal.
The competing currency wars are beginning to escalate.
The die is now cast. As the euro brushes $1.50 against the dollar, it is already too late to stop the EUROZONE HURTLING INTO A FULL-FLEDGED ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CRISIS. We now have to start ASKING WHETHER THE EU ITSELF WILL SURVIVE IN ITS CURRENT FORM.
At the age of 27, Toni Vernelli, at the height of her reproductive years was sterilised to "protect the planet".
Five former defence chiefs have criticised the Government's support of the armed forces, with one even saying that funding shortages has already led to "blood on the floor" at the Ministry of Defence.
Latest teenage hero is insolent, rebellious veggie from broken home
A Chinese decision to block the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk from a long-planned Thanksgiving visit to Hong Kong, before relenting 24 hours later "on humanitarian grounds," had the markings of a diplomatic slap in the face, analysts say. It just isn't clear whose face it was aimed at.
Pakistan was suspended from the Commonwealth, a 53-nation group that includes the U.K., increasing pressure on President Pervez Musharraf after he rebuffed its demands to lift emergency rule and quit as army chief.
The U.S. military is vulnerable to China's advanced war-fighting systems, including space weapons and computer attacks that would be used in a future conflict over Taiwan, according to a congressional commission's report released yesterday.
Jellyfish wiped out Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, with more than 1 million pounds ($2.06 million) worth of stock massacred in the attack.
Britain is doubling its stockpile of antiviral medicines in preparation for any future flu pandemic, health secretary Alan Johnson has announced.
The Philippines began evacuating tens of thousands of people from coastal areas in the central Bicol region as typhoon Mitag gathered strength, officials said on Thursday.
Amid reports that China and India will hold their first joint military exercise next month, the two countries Wednesday reiterated they were ready to take their strategic cooperative partnership to a "new level".