People in Cumberland County, Kentucky are horrified that a 5-year-old boy accidentally shot his 2-year-old sister dead but not surprised that he had been given his own rifle a year earlier, Euronews finds. Child gun ownership is common in the stat...

Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halki has survived a devastating car bombing in Damascus that targeted his convoy in the upscale Mazzeh district where many senior government officials live. At least seven people, including the prime minister's bodyg...

The peace process in Turkey has taken another big leap forward with the PKK's announcement that it has set a date for withdrawal. The Kurdish militant group, which has been fighting for autonomy for 30 years, says it will start moving its thousand...

Vladimir Putin's message to the US after the Boston bombings? "I told you so." In his annual Q&A hotline session, the Russian leader called for greater co-operation against terrorism, but said the Boston attack justified his hardline stance on...

At least 23 people have been killed during a raid by Iraqi security forces on a Sunni Muslim protest camp near Kirkuk. Dozens more were left injured after a gun battle reportedly erupted between troops and demonstrators, intensifying the country'...

Chinese state media has shown images of the country's Premier, Li Keqiang, visiting the victims of the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province. The 6.6 magnitude quake struck the mostly rural and mountainous region to the southwest of t...

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake has struck China's southwestern Sichuan province. Reports suggest that scores of people have been killed and over 2,000 injured. The quake was felt in neighboring provinces causing people to flee buildings in search of s...

A French family of seven has been freed unharmed after seven months in the hands of kidnappers in northern Cameroon. The family, including four children, was seized in a national park near the Nigerian border by gunmen who demanded the release of ...

In the latest attack on immigrants in Greece, three farm foremen opened fire with shotguns on a group of Bangladeshi strawberry pickers demanding months of unpaid wages, injuring 30. Activists are calling for a boycott until conditions for "strawb...

The government austerity programs making life a misery for millions of people in the European Union and around the world may all be the result of a mistake in Microsoft Excel, according to University of Massachusetts researchers. They found major ...