Greek lawmakers have approved the government's austerity bill, paving the way for a record bailout from the European Union and IMF.

Gales and hailstorms have killed at least 33 people and injured more than a hundred in southwest China.

BP is about to lower a huge metal box over a Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a last-ditch attempt to head off an environmental disaster.

US authorites stopped a plane at New York's JFK airport over a security scare, but the incident was a "false alarm," a police source said.

The sunsets of early May light up the eyes of a Mayan Mask in Campeche, Mexico. It signals the start of the agricultural season.

An Indian court has sentenced a Pakistani man to death over the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.

People have laid flowers and lit candles to commemorate the lives of three bank workers killed in riots in the Greek capital Athens.

Scientists know more than ever about the formation of stars thanks to data sent back to earth by the Herschel Space Telescope.