Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, jumping past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the first person from a developing nation to top

British officials will spend millions of dollars on protection as up to half a million people travel to South Africa for the month-long soccer World Cup.

Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief exorcist.

This past September, Chinese entrepreneur Chen Mingjing opened up an amusement park called Kingdom of the Little People near Kunming, China in the Yunnan

A British father who repeatedly raped his two daughters and fathered nine babies with them during a 35-year orgy of physical and sexual abuse was never detected due to a litany of

France's flamboyant, diminutive president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his younger pop star wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, are allegedly both having affairs, according to some of France's

Road signs warning drivers that intoxicated people may be in the road have been put up as Romania tries to reduce the number of accidents.

Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of a Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six employees and

A spike in China’s birthrate in 2007 is now putting pressure on kindergartens, according to ABC News.

A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks — some of them unusually well-preserved — have been found in the Baltic sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and

A skydiver miraculously survived after plummeting 3,000 feet to the ground when her parachute became tangled, The Sun reported Tuesday.

A former British bomb disposal expert was due to appear in court Tuesday charged with attempting to murder his pregnant wife and eight-year-old son after a car exploded in Kent,

A Japanese government-appointed panel on Tuesday confirmed the existence of once-secret Cold War-era pacts between Japan and the U.S. on nuclear arms and other issues

Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its

Anacleto Flores Valle, the chief of police in the Pacific coast town of Petatlan, was uninjured when heavily armed men in two trucks opened fire on his home Sunday