The case against an al-Qaida gang that plotted to bring down trans-Atlantic aircraft proves that wiretaps and other intercept evidence should be allowed in British courts, Britain's former chief prosecutor said Tuesday. Three British Muslims were...

They may be on the national emblem, but a study has confirmed what many Australians have long suspected: kangaroos are the deadliest animal menace to drivers on the nation's roads. Kangaroos and their smaller kin, wallabies, are famed for their...

Signs that the global crisis is easing should not stall plans to overhaul the world's financial system, including reform of the IMF, the foreign ministers of Brazil, India and South Africa said on Tuesday. "The risk is that, with the crisis subsiding,...

A millionaire Australian property developer who once tried to sue the sultan of Brunei was gunned down in front of his young son outside their exclusive Sydney home, police said Friday. Scottish-born Michael McGurk, 45, was shot once in the head by a...

Russia has made a once-banned book recounting the brutality and despair of the Soviet Gulag required reading for students, the Education Ministry said in a statement Wednesday. The ministry said excerpts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1973 epic "The...