Locked in a cellar where she was allegedly raped and beaten for nearly a decade, a young deaf and mute Pakistani woman told a UK court on Tuesday how she was trafficked into Britain and forced to work

Police aren't filing charges against a father who briefly played a pornographic video instead of 'The Smurfs' at his child's birthday party.

Tremonton Police Chief Dave Nance tells the media that the

Tajikistan's Defence Ministry says one of its helicopters has crashed in neighbouring Afghanistan, killing four air force officers while performing a support operation for the international military c

An Iranian news agency reports that more than 30 million people in the country have lost access to foreign email services such as Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail.

The Saturday report by the semi-offici

The head of Al Qaeda is calling on Muslims across the Arab world and beyond to support rebels in Syria who are seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad, and says they cannot depend on the West for help.

A 14-year-old shot himself in the face in a New Hampshire elementary school cafeteria filled with dozens of students eating lunch, officials said Friday.

The teen, identified by a relative and fellow

A man from Uzbekistan who pleaded guilty on Friday to plotting to kill President Barack Obama with an automatic rifle claimed he was acting at the direction of an Islamic terror group in his home coun

An Indonesian terrorism suspect known as ‘Demolition Man’ for his expertise with explosives told interrogators he used common household items, including a rice ladle and a kitchen scale, to build a ma

Gunmen assassinated an army general in Damascus on Saturday in the first killing of a high ranking military officer in the Syrian capital since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime beg

Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award on Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.

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