Yoko Ono says John Lennon is still helping her in her endeavours as an artist and peace activist as she pays tribute to her late husband before what would have been his 70th birthday.

Nine years after the attacks of 9/11, the psyches of people who were even distant from the events, show permanent changes.

A Saudi couple tortured their Sri Lankan maid after she complained of a too heavy workload by hammering 24 nails into her hands, legs and forehead.6d04d1b662d6415f984d303b7a4d6719

Instead of storing flight data on board, aircraft could easily send the information in real time to the ground.

Lebanese Shiite and Sunni groups fought street battles using machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades for more than four hours Tuesday, killing three people and wounding several others just blocks from a busy downtown packed with summer tourists.

Donations have been sluggish to the Pakistan floods appeals, as they were back in 2005 when the part of Kashmir the country administers was torn apart by an earthquake. The BBC News website asked some experts to comment on possible reasons why.

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Since 1992, Hassan Nasrallah has been the leader of the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah, a political organization with a militant wing based in Lebanon. A popular political figure in Lebanon and the

The court ruled that the extradition process must be completed within three months, otherwise Bout will be released.

When an airliner slammed onto a rainy Caribbean runway early Monday and split into three shredded pieces, passengers called it a miracle that no one died in the impact

Women who long for doe eyes and an intense gaze have a new ally: eye-widening circle lenses.