Greece has asked for emergency loans from the International Monetary Fund and countries in the euro zone.

The death toll from simultaneous blasts west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad has risen past the fifty mark.

Beijing is waging war against the stench of its growing rubbish tips, by using deodorant cannons.

A team of 30 Spanish doctors claim to have successfully performed the world's first full face transplant.

An unmanned Atlas rocket carrying a miniature space shuttle has blasted off from Cape Canaveral on a test flight.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has begun a state visit to Zimbabwe, meeting President Robert Mugabe.

Hundreds of Thai riot police have confronted anti-government protesters at a barricade in Bangkok's business district.

A deepwater oil platform that burned for more than a day after a massive explosion has sunk in the Gulf of Mexico.