SEOUL, April 18 (Bernama) -- A total of 26 people have been confirmed dead after a South Korean ferry carrying 475 people capsized in waters off South Korea's southwest coast on Wednesday, China's Xinhua news agency reported quoting local media on ...

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered what is supposed to be the first planet of Earth's size that reportedly orbits a star in the "habitable zone". Paul Hertz, NASA's Astrophysics Division director said that the discovery of Kepler-186f was a ...

Officials in South Sudan say gunmen have raided a United Nations compound housing 5,000 civilians and U.N. peacekeepers, killing at least 20 people and wounding 60. Officials say armed youths overran the U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) ...

GENEVA — The United States, Russia, Ukraine and the European Union reached an agreement Thursday that calls for pro-Russia militants to give up the government buildings they have seized in eastern Ukraine and outlines other steps to de-escalate the ...

Though it seldom breaks fresh news, President Vladimir Putin's annual telethon is always a useful reality check on the man, his state of mind, and his intentions. Skip to next paragraph. In Pictures Putin on a Show. Related stories. Vladimir Putin 101: A quiz ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A mob of armed civilians pretending to be peaceful protesters delivering a petition to the United Nations in South Sudan forced their way into a U.N. base sheltering some 5,000 civilians on Thursday and opened fire, the world ...

PRETORIA, South Africa, April 17 (Xinhua) -- The trial of murder-accused Paralympian Oscar Pistorius continued at the Pretoria High Court on Thursday with defence witness Roger Dixon, a qualified geologist still under cross examination, just before the trial ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who claims he was sexually abused by "X-Men" franchise director Bryan Singer said Thursday that he reported the molestation to authorities at the time, and he does not know why charges were never pursued. With his voice ...

THE Easter story being celebrated today is around 2,000 years old but is it still relevant in our modern world? Here we speak to three Christian ministers who explain what the story of Jesus's betrayal, crucifixion and resurrection can still teach us in a time ...

AN expert witness on Oscar Pistorius's defence team has contradicted part of the athlete's testimony — in effect, bolstering the prosecution's claims that the runner lied about the night he shot Reeva Steenkamp. Roger Dixon, a former police forensics officer, ...