This amateur video, shot over the weekend, shows Syrian rebels under intense attack as their stronghold of Qusayr is shelled and they scramble to save themselves and fallen comrades. The death toll is mounting, but Reuters reports that several dea...

A Hofstra University student was accidentally shot dead by a Long Island police officer when he opened fire on a home intruder who was pointing a gun at the student's head in her off-campus home, then turned the weapon on the cop. College junior A...

One of the world's most iconic skylines was graced by the world's biggest rubber duck today as Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's creation was towed into Hong Kong harbor. The 54-foot inflatable duck is in the sixth year of a world tour that has mad...

After two months of damaging post-election deadlock, Italy appears set to get a prime minister and a  government. President Georgio Napolitano has asked center-left lawmaker Enrico Letta to serve as prime minister and to form a coalition gove...

Margaret Thatcher was arguably the most divisive political figure of our time. Revered by some, hated by many, her death on Monday sparked an unofficial campaign to get 1939 Wizard of Oz song "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead" into the charts. It's se...

A sobbing four-year-old girl and her hysterical mom were reunited after the dusty daughter was pulled from the bottom of a narrow, 56-foot-deep dry well in northwest China. Rescuers pumped oxygen into the bottom of the well and told the girl how t...

Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art in New York were treated to the sight of Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton sawing some zzzs as she slept in a glass box. Her appearance was part of a performance art piece called "The Maybe." Swinton wil...

David Beckham, China's newly appointed "Global Ambassador for Soccer," has launched a bid to revive the sport's grassroots popularity in China and the Chinese league's image internationally following a major match-fixing scandal.

It was just another high school basketball game, until senior center Khalil Edney heaved up a prayer and a longshot and made a one-handed basket from 55 feet away, just beating the buzzer and giving his New Rochelle school a 61-60 upset win to gra...

Olympic and Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius has been arrested for allegedly shooting his girlfriend dead at his home in South Africa. Early reports say the athlete nicknamed "Bladerunner" shot Reeva Steenkamp after mistaking her for a burglar as s...