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A two-year-old rottweiler has been hailed as hero, after he chased off an Iranian illegal immigrant who had sexually assaulted a young woman in a park in the UK.
A British expat living in Australia has become the first person to be officially recognized as genderless.
A new Turkish law makes it a criminal offence for a woman to go abroad and get pregnant via artificial insemination.
A British man and a female friend caught kissing in public in the UAE state of Dubai face up to a month in jail for indecency after a local mother reported her child had witnessed their indiscretion.
70 bodies of victims, killed by Nazis, found in mass graves under Austrian football pitch
Two mass graves containing about 70 bodies of people killed by the Nazis during the Second World War have been discovered underneath a football pitch belonging to the Austrian army in the southern city of Graz, Austrian government officials said o...
Two Mexican women became the first lesbians to wed in Latin America and Mexico's first gay couple, as they got married in Mexico City on Thursday.
Three fishing boats capsized and two others went missing on Thursday following a severe summer storm had generated high waves in the shores of the central Thai province of Prachuap Khiri Khan.
Seven Muslims were detained today in towns of Waterford and Cork, in south of Ireland, for allegedly planning a plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's & wife's marriage in crisis, rumours say both having affairs
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy are both rumoured to have affairs, French media reports say.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez mocked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday as a "blond" version of her predecessor.
Iraqi authorities counted votes on Monday, a day after a parliamentary election in the Middle Eastern country. Preliminary results are expected in two or three days.
Somali pirates released a Thai fishing vessel, they had held for more than four months, after a ransom of $3 million (97.9 million baht) was paid.
A British Chinook helicopter pilot was shot between the eyes by a Taliban bullet, but still managed to fly on and saved all 20 aboard.
A total of about 50 ships, including a passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board, were stuck Friday in ice, after gale-force winds built up large ice masses in the Baltic Sea off Sweden's east coast, officials said.
Vatican rocked by usher's gay sex scandal
One of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in the Vatican's St Peter's Basilica have allegedly been involved in an organized network of gay prostitution.
Cambodia claimed on Thursday that the first-ever public test of Russian-made BM-21 multiple-military rocket launchers to protect against "invaders," was successful.
32 Thai labourers were arrested in Poland for working illegally, a Thai foreign ministry official said Thursday. The labourers were lured by a job recruitment firm to Poland with a promise of jobs at mushroom farms, but instead were sent to work i...
Millions of dollars of aid, from Western governments and charities, including Live Aid and Band Aid, intended to buy food for starving Ethiopians during the country's 1984 famine were misused by rebels to buy weapons, a BBC investigation has found...
A recent opinion poll shows more than half of voters in four other major European countries back an initiative by French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to ban women from wearing the burka in public places.
UAE bans Israeli dual citizens from entering country; Israeli PM, Mossad chief face arrest
Dubai's police chief is planning to seek the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of the Israel's secret service, Mossad, over the killing of a Hamas commander.