WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange described as nonsense reports of defections from his organisation and said his group helped inspire the Occupy Wall Street movement.

A Swedish court on Tuesday convicted 23 women and one man of child pornography offenses in what investigators called a unique case because of the number of female perpetrators.

The Falu District Cou

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Students at a suburban Chicago high school will have to hold it or risk staying after school.

A policy at Evergreen Park High School allows students to leave class three times per semester to go to t

A 100-year-old Indian runner became the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon when he finished the race in Toronto on Sunday.

Fauja Singh earned a spot in the Guiness World Book of Recor

The Occupy Wall Street movement has close to $300,000, as well as storage space loaded with donated supplies in lower Manhattan.

It stared down city officials to hang on to its makeshift headquarter

Demonstrators attend the Occupy Wall Street rally at New York’s Times Square on Saturday. — AP

Libyan revolutionary forces bulldozed the green walls surrounding Muammar Gaddafi’s main Tripoli compound on Sunday, saying it was time 'to tear down this symbol of tyranny'.

Contestants pose during the bikini round in Caracas, Venezuela, on Saturday. — AP

Kenyan tanks, artillery and hundreds of fighters are moving through militant territory in Somalia, residents said on Monday.

Fighter jets and helicopters have been flying overhead since Kenyan forces