The eight-legged oracle has spoken: Paul the octopus says Spain will sink three-time champions Germany in their World Cup semifinal.
The floppy football fan from Oberhausen’s Sea Life Aquarium on Tuesday chose a mussel from a glass tank marked with a Spanish flag and ignored a tank emblazoned with Germany’s colors, spokesman Daniel Fey said.

Three decades of wars, massacres and sectarian killings have left Iraq with as many as a million widows, by Iraqi government count.
Hameeda Ayed is one of them.

A Pakistani man approached CIA officers in Islamabad in 2009, offering to give up secrets of his country’s closely guarded nuclear programme.

The British government is set to formally announce an inquiry into whether its spy agencies colluded in the torture of terrorism suspects overseas, a probe that could complicate intelligence-sharing w

A fire on a shuttle bus carrying steel fa-ctory workers in central Ch-ina killed 24 people and in-jured 19, state media said.

An American geologist detained and tortured by China’s state security agents over an oil industry database was jailed for eight years on Monday in a troubling example of China’s rough justice system

US vice-president Joe Biden urged rival Iraqi politicians on Sunday to end months of delays and select new leaders for their wobbly democracy, predicting a peaceful transition of power even as suicide

Like millions of her subjects, Queen Elizabeth II is going to have to make do and mend — cutting spending and putting off palace repairs as royal finances are squeezed by Britain’s budget crisis.

A suicide car bomber shot at guards and detonated his explosives at the gate of a paramilitary base in north-western Pakistan before dawn Monday, killing one soldier and wounding at least seven other

Rooney, then Ronaldo and now Messi.