You’ve just won your Oscar, given your acceptance speech to the world and are whisked off stage. The world watching on television goes to a commercial break as you are escorted off to meet the press,...

NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew, part of Shuttle Discovery's six-member crew, have begun the first of two planned spacewalks.

The United States has begun moving warships and aircraft closer to Libya and has frozen $30 billion in Libyan assets.

Designer John Galliano has been questioned by police in Paris over accusations that he hurled racial abuse at people in a Paris bar.

I bolted up from a deep sleep to the sound of my phone ringing in my hotel room in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. I looked at my clock it was 4am.

Egypt's top prosecutor has frozen all the funds of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak and his family and banned them from travelling abroad.

“Extraordinary, unique, outstanding….” These words often promise an interesting news story and also they might guarantee success in someone’s job.

In the weeks after the mass shooting in Arizona in early January, the question in newsrooms and kitchens alike was: How long would it take Gabrielle Giffords to recover and could she ever hope to...

Britain has warned supporters of Colonel Gaddafi that there will be a "day of reckoning" for anyone involved in human rights abuses.

The World's gaze at events in the Middle East was broken last week after an earthquake of 6.3 destroyed many buildings in Christchurch New Zealand, the death toll now stands at 147 with 200 still...

Scientists at Nasa have recorded a huge solar flare caused by large magnetic eruption.