The US President has not ruled out providing military hardware to Libyan rebels as western nations aim to remove leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Some commuters in China narrowly avoided a horrific crash after an aqueduct collapsed on a highway just metres in front of their bus.

For the past 15 years Boonchu Tiengtan has been digging for gold in Panompa, a small village in Thailand’s Phichit province. His bare hands, a hammer and a shovel are his only tools.

The port of Kesennuma is destroyed by a wall of water after being struck by the tsunami of March 11th.

For those of us who work in the Baghdad bureau, it is always a shock to look back through the collected photos of one of our Iraqi colleagues. We think we are used to those old scenes. But seen one...

The port of Kesennuma is destroyed by water after being struck by the tsunami of March 11th.

A French daredevil urban climber has scaled the world's tallest building in Dubai, the Burj Khalifa.

US Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, has said that the Obama administration has not ruled out arming Libya's rebels.

China is fast becoming a scientific superpower and now ranks second only to the US in its share of published research.

US President Barack Obama has defended his country's military action in Libya and indicated that it would now move to a supporting role.

Alarm has been raised at the Fukushima nuclear complex in Japan after plutonium was found in soil.

Prince Harry is due to join a team of wounded servicemen in a charity expedition to the North Pole.