Tony Blair has piled more pressure onto Israel, after the country's raid on a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza.

A team of researchers are being locked in a windowless space ship in an experiment that will test their mental and physical endurance.

Afghanistan's gathering of tribal leaders is continuing despite an attack by Taliban suicide commandos.

BP has hit a snag in its latest effort to curb the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

An Australian kookaburra bird is undergoing personal training after growing too fat to fly because she ate too many sausages.

Three astronauts that oversaw the final assembly stages of the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan.

BP is pressing ahead with its latest attempt to curb the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico as pressure mounts on the company.

Israel has begun deporting the pro-Palestinian activists it took into custody following the storming of an aid flotilla heading to Gaza.

Oil giant BP is fighting to secure its future as the US government has launched a criminal investigation into oil spill.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to resign..