A statue of Jesus that normally stands outside a Church in Ohio, burned to the ground after being struck by lightning.

Sinking land has developed into a huge 80-metre diameter hole on a school playground in southern China.

BP bosses face a mauling at crunch talks today after US President Barack Obama vowed to make the British oil giant pay.

At least nine people are dead and several others missing following violent rain storms near France's Mediterranean coast.

Landslides triggered by heavy rain in southeast Bangladesh have buried dozens of homes and an army camp, killing at least 58 people.

A Russian rocket carrying a three-person US-Russian crew to the International Space Station has blasted off successfully from Kazakhstan.

A Tokyo University team has developed a robot of a nine-month-old baby in an effort to better understand how humans grow.