A Hong Kong registered cargo ship loaded with wheat bound for Iran has been hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden - just days after the seizure of a giant Saudi oil tanker.

Joe Kinnear the Newcastle United interim manager, revealed talks over his future with owner Mike Ashley had been postponed for a week.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A radar instrument aboard a NASA spacecraft has detected large glaciers hidden under rocky debris that may be the vestiges of ice sheets that blanketed parts of Mars in a past ice age, scientists said on Thursday.

Michael Jackson has reportedly become a Muslim and changed his name to Mikaeel.

A Melbourne lawnmowing contractor has been stung at least 40 times by a swarm of bees. The 39-year-old was using a slashing machine on the back of a tractor when he disturbed the swarm in a blackberry bush earlier Thursday, paramedics said.

The year-end Bangkok Motor Exposition will allow visitors a glimpse of the prototype for a modernised version of the Scuderia Bizzarrini P538, designed in Thailand.

The leaking of a telephone conversation between Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and US President George W Bush seems to have taken the gloss off their once-chummy relationship.

Citigroup Inc lost more than one-quarter of its market value on growing worries over whether it has enough capital to withstand billions of dollars of potential losses and despite new support from its largest individual investor.

CHICAGO (CBS) ― President-elect Barack Obama and his inner circle fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq and, perhaps, cure cancer -- all by the Fourth of July.

WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the continued detention of a sixth in a major blow to the Bush administration's strategy to keep terror suspects locked up without cha...

The kangaroo is far more closely related to humans than previously thought, Australian researchers say. Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics (KanGO) released the first detailed map of the kangaroo genome, on Tuesday.

For most people, an unsettled stomach is a passing inconvenience; at its worst, a vomiting episode is at least followed by relief.

Katrina Kaif is no doubt riding high on the success of Race and Singh is Kinng, but the actress is quite nervous about her next big release Yuvvraaj.

Vancouver -- Lenny Kravitz cancelled the remainder of his Canadian tour yesterday because of a severe throat problem.

The MySpace application for Research In Motion’s Blackberry smartphones has been downloaded more than 400,000 times since it was introduced a week ago.

Oncologists should be regularly checked for burnout, say researchers, following a study showing that they have high levels of emotional exhaustion.

Usher has confirmed he's set to become a dad again.

Who said bras are only for women? A Japanese online lingerie retailer is selling bras for cross-dressing men and they've quickly become one of its most popular items.

BAGHDAD: More than 10,000 supporters of the radical anti-American Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad's Firdos Square on Friday to protest the Iraqi government plan to sign a security agreement which would maintain American troops in...

Is it just scaremongering, or are a third of our restaurants about to go bust? Lynn Fung examines who will be the worst hit by the upcoming recession.

I attend college at a fairly large Northeastern university. Walking alone around campus, I’m puzzled over whether — and how — to acknowledge people.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- They call themselves a group of yet-to-be-seen artists.

Yet another gastronomic offspring of the fabled Chez Panisse, Camino has brought the church of virtuous eating to Oakland's Grand Avenue. Chef Russell Moore strips the local, seasonal mantra down to its core, with a daily changing menu of simply p...

Wood anemones flourish in cool climate, damp soil

BANGKOK, Nov. 21 — Thailand's Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat late Thursday assigned Olarn Chaipravat, one of his deputies, to take charge of government on his behalf for a week, amid fears that violence might occur with anti-government protester...

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An air hostess helped land a jet carrying 146 passengers after the co-pilot had an apparent mental breakdown over the Atlantic Ocean, investigators revealed today.

More young couples are forgoing Western rituals for the ancient Han way

You may have seen him cooking on the BBC, created one of his simple stir-fries or whipped up a wok wonder following his instructions. Now you can taste celebrity chef Ken Hom's Asian delights for yourself.

A handful of bloggers have been abuzz in the past week with news of the latest under-the-radar Burger King promotion. The fast food chain has dispensed agents across major U.S. cities (indications are it’s just been Chicago and Orlando so far) to ...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Old wounds the federal Liberals had hoped to put behind them were pried open Sunday, as leadership hopeful Bob Rae boycotted the party's closed-door, all-candidates' forum because his chief rival Michael Ignatieff wouldn't agre...

Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny w Warszawie (NSA) wydał w dniu 01.04.2008 roku werdykt (akta nr 322/07) orzekający, że każdy, kto odbył służbę wojskową w Wojsku Obrony Izraela w latach 1948-1951 w jakiejkolwiek formie

NEW DELHI: Demand for "affordable housing" is still strong in India and first-time home buyers would continue to drive the realty segment, a top industry official said here Monday.

Sony India announced the launch of PSP-3000 in the Indian market at the Playstation event held in Mumbai. The company has also announced its plan to roll out the 80 GB Sony PS3 console in the country.

The "pregnant man" who gave birth earlier this year says he is expecting a second child.

With monks making headlines for all the wrong reasons, Buddhism in Thailand seems to be in peril. Just days ago villagers protested against an abbot who'd placed pictures of controversial politicians around the base of a Buddha image at his temple...

Royal Kathina was offered at a Buddhist temple in Indonesia yesterday, the first ever royalsponsored Buddhist meritmaking in the world's biggest Muslim country.