After surviving almost a thousand years of turbulence that included the Crusades and the Mongol invasion, the ancient minaret of Aleppo's Great Mosque has been destroyed. The Assad regime and opposition fighters blame each other for the blast at t...

Nasa has created a time-lapse video of images of sun taken daily over past three years as it heads towards the peak of solar activity in its 11-year cycle. 

In a heart-stopping CCTV video taken at a Medillin metro statio a quick-thinking Colombian cop suddenly turns, grabs and saves a man about to leap in front of a speeding train. The officer can then be seen to be talking to the would-be suicide, th...

Paris protesters clashed with riot police after the French parliament passed a historic, controversial law allowing same-sex couples to marry and to adopt children. Applause erupted in the National Assembly when the bill passed 331 to 225, but pro...

April is leaving like a lion with up to five inches of snow forecast to hit the Denver area by Tuesday afternoon. The snow shut down sections of some major highways, and has been blamed for grounded flights. 

It was not your run-of-the-mill light show. "Rock" fans in northern Argentina were treated to a star performance by a suspected meteor that suddenly lit up the night skies in the middle of a concert by the high-energy electric folk band Los Tekis,...

Amateur video shows anti-government protesters clashing with police in Manama as thousands riot ahead of the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday. Activists accuse the Bahraini government of using the Grand Prix for covering up human rights ab...

Police with weapons drawn are seen in Watertown, Massachusetts during the search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Nineteen-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains on the loose. 

WARNING: Graphic Content. Clashes broke out on Friday afternoon following an Islamist protest against the judiciary at Cairo's High Court. The demonstration was called for by the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and other Islamist fo...

Boston has been locked down and residents of several neighborhoods told to stay in their homes while a manhunt is underway for a Boston Marathon bombing suspect who escaped after a shootout. The other suspect reportedly died from wounds suffered i...