Iran has made some arrests in connection with this week's suicide bombing that killed dozens of people but expects neighbouring Pakistan to catch and hand over the main suspects, its police chief said on Wednesday.

Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is still alive, his Scottish lawyer said on Wednesday, dismissing a report that he had died.

Priestesses praying to the Greek god Apollo under the blazing sun got the rehearsal for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics' torch-lighting ceremony off to a smooth start on Wednesday.

Poland stands ready to take part in the revamped missile defence system unveiled by Washington last month, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said after meeting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday.

Half of the most senior Afghan district election officials will be replaced, U.N. officials said on Wednesday, to prevent more fraud in a run-off presidential poll crucial to the country's credibility and foreign support.

Pakistani helicopter gunships attacked Taliban bases near the Afghan border on Wednesday as the army urged NATO forces to seal the frontier to stem cross-border movement of militants.

Global pirate attacks so far this year have already exceeded the number recorded in 2008, and attackers are much more likely to use firearms, a maritime watchdog said We

A speeding passenger train rammed into another waiting near a northern Indian station early on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring several others, officials said.

Israeli President Shimon Peres rejects a United Nations report on his country's incursion into Gaza as "one-sided" and "unfair" in an interview with CNN.

People who near green spaces may be less likely than those surrounded by concrete to suffer a range of health problems, particularly depression and anxiety, according to a Dutch study.

A 17-year-old girl from a small Mississippi town is fighting education authorities after her graduation photo was banned from the yearbook because it showed her in a tuxedo.

Australia on Wednesday flagged moves to bring military operations in Afghanistan to a quick end, despite US and NATO calls for more troops to shore up the campaign against a resurgent Taliban militia.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set Wednesday to outline key steps Washington will take to fulfill President Barack Obama’s vision of a world free of nuclear weapons.

The Olympic torch relay kicks off Wednesday, thousands of kilometres away from its final destination.

A German heart doctor convicted for killing his French stepdaughter 27 years ago was found tied up outside a court in France, police said Tuesday, apparently delivered by his victim's father.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai sounded the statesman Tuesday, as he agreed to take part in a run-off vote in two weeks.

Hooked on cocaine or cigarettes? The U.S. government wants drug companies to make a vaccine for that.

An advert for pure silk pillowcases which claimed they had anti-aging qualities and made hair look beautiful was banned by Britain's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) on Wednesday for being misleading.

Jewish leaders on Tuesday criticized Brazil's plans to receive Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad next month and urged the South American nation to condemn his denial of the Holocaust and "support of international terrorism."

Inmates at a prison in Uruguay can spend years in "tin cans" — small metal boxes where temperatures rise to 140 F , while women and children were among prisoners in Nigeria confined to a 'torture room.'