Head-to-toe tattoos have been no barrier to success for Vladimir Franz. The opera composer is running as an independent candidate in the Czech Republic's presidential election. He is polling in third place and could end up as kingmaker if voting g...

Police resorted to water cannons and plastic bullets in a bid to quell violent demonstrations by Loyalist protesters. The riots continued for the fifth night in a row amid mounting fury over the decision to stop flying the Union flag above Belfast...

British police have released CCTV surveillance footage after a 23-year-old man suffered a broken jaw when he was attacked outside a pizza parlour in Birmingham. He told investigators he was punched because he has red hair.

Police look through the burnt out remains of houses as bushfires continue to spread throughout the Australian state of Tasmania. Tasmania's police commissioner said he feared lives may have been lost in the wildfires which swept through parts of t...

The 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education has been released from a British hospital after nearly three months. Doctor say Malala Yousafzai has made excellent progress, but she will ne...

The biggest rubber duck you're ever likely to see floated into Sydney's iconic harbor today ahead of the city's arts festival. The 50-foot duck's creator says the giant bath toy is meant to illustrate that "we are one family, and the global waters...

A female passenger is shown being carried to safety, with wreckage from the Tupolev Tu-204 jet strewn across a wide area at Vnukovo airport.

India's most powerful political leader says the death of a 23 year-old gang-rape victim will force an increase in efforts to combat "pervasive, shameful social attitudes." The victim died overnight in a hospital in Singapore.

A rescue team in Michigan braved frozen Lake Erie to save a dog who had become stranded -- and a man who became stranded trying to save the dog. Both survived without serious injury, though the dog had spent more than an hour in frigid water.

Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has been released from hospital, and is receiving medical care at his home in Johannesburg, the South African government has disclosed. A spokesman for President Jacob Zuma confirmed that Mr Mandela was t...