Libya’s National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil (centre) and NTC minister for oil and finance Ali Tarhouni (back centre) with Libyan veterans in Benghazi on Monday.

Queen Elizabeth II (from left) and Queensland premier Anna Bligh view koala bears during a tour of Rain Bank in Brisbane on Monday. — AP

Floodwaters in Thailand on Tuesday breached barriers defending Bangkok's second airport and have begun seeping into the compound, forcing at least one airline based there to suspend flights for a week

A police commando stands guard in a lit-up market in New Delhi on Sunday as shopping for Diwali picks up. — AP

In this image taken from video, Italy’s Marco Simoncelli (front left) slides across the track after colliding with America’s Colin Edwards (centre) and Italy’s Valentino Rossi (right) on turn 11 of th

Downtown Dewey Square is crammed with tents and tarps of Occupy Boston protesters, but organizers made sure from the start of this weeks-old encampment that there was room for the holy.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday lashed out at North Korea for 'reckless and provocative' acts and criticised China for a secretive expansion of its military power.

Panetta, who arrived

Afghan and NATO coalition forces killed or captured about 200 insurgents in eastern Afghanistan during two operations targeting the lethal Haqqani network, which has links to al-Qaida and the Taliban,

Two identical twins in Indiana now have another birthday in common: They delivered babies on the same day at the same hospital.

21-year-old Jessica and Jennifer Patterson gave birth on Wednesday at I

President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in US history, announcing that all American troops would be withdrawn from the country