It’s a feat usually reserved for hardened veterans of the bull ring, but 16-year-old Spanish matador Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso went on a bull ring killing

Nuns in Montreal, Canada showed an extreme form of forgiveness when they forgave the man who killed their fellow Sister.

An alligator that killed an 11-year-old girl bathing in a creek in northern Brazil was shot dead by searchers with the victim still in its jaws, AFP reported

U.S. Army soldiers have launched a major operation in support of a planned U.S.-Afghan attack on the largest Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan.

Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have

A 28-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a market in Port-au-Prince on Monday and has been admitted to the University of Miami's field hospital in the capital, adjacent to

NATO and Afghan officials on Tuesday urged Taliban militants holding a southern town to lay down their arms and warned civilians there to "keep your heads down" as U.S. and Afghan

At least 28 people are dead and another 1,500 are stranded following multiple avalanches in Afghanistan.

North Korea's Kim Jong Il reportedly dispatched his top nuclear envoy to Beijing on Tuesday to discuss restarting nuclear disarmament talks, a day after pledging Pyongyang's

Iran began enriching uranium to 20 percent purity level Tuesday in defiance of world powers but under the supervision of inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog, state media

Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic

Five of 10 American Baptists charged with kidnapping and conspiracy appeared at a Haitian court Monday for hearings on their attempt to take a busload of

A new report by the International Planned Parenthood Federation is advocating that children as young as 10 be given extensive sex education, including an awareness of sex's

Japanese authorities say they're trying to identify a body found inside one of the landing gear compartments on a Delta Airlines flight that arrived in Tokyo

Prosecutors in Turkey were seeking life in jail for the father and grandfather of a girl who was buried alive for befriending boys, local judicial sources said