At least two tornadoes have torn through the Dallas-Fort Worth area in the US state of Texas, ripping apart buildings and tossing roofs and debris

Facebook is striking back by filing its own lawsuit after Yahoo filed one accusing the social networking site of violating patents. Yahoo’s case

The treasurer of Italy’s Northern League party, Francesco Belsito, has resigned after magistrates began investigating him for fraud and illegal party

The man suspected of killing seven people at a college in Oakland, California had been expelled from the institute following behavioural problems

The Republican US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is steaming towards his party’s nomination to take on Barack Obama for the White House. He goes

Three top leaders of al Qaeda’s North African wing are said to be in the Malian city of Timbuktu. The trio of Algerians are thought to be taking

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, is keeping up the pressure on world leaders and urging them not to become

Spain’s new budget has revealed the country’s debt-GDP ratio and unemployment rate will rise this year, causing the highest debt level since 1990

“I lost the swing in my left arm. It did not work very well. I realised something was wrong”. “My problems started 11 years ago. So I went to the

The British government’s proposals to extend state monitoring of internet use have come in for stern criticism from within the ruling coalition

Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, accused of masterminding the Mumbai attacks, has a price on his head – $10 million offered by the US. Saeed founded

James Murdoch has quit as chairman of British pay-TV group BSkyB. Rupert Murdoch’s son has been under fire for his handling of the phone hacking

They are tools of torture from the distant past. Yet recent French history has got in the way of an auction that was due to put a chilling

From April 4 2012, it will be easier for new political parties to be registered in Russia, due to a bill passed by President Dmitry Medvedev

The Italian Northern League’s headquarters has been raided and its treasurer Francesco Belsito placed under investigation for suspected illegal party

Many refugees have fled northern Mali for Mauritania. There are some 200,000 like them who have left Mali, going to the countries around it. One of

We want to be more like Europe. So said the leaders of the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – ASEAN – as they

Israeli Transport Minister Yisrael Katz has visited a building in Hebron where Jewish settlers were given a last minute reprieve from eviction

A US financial regulator has accused Royal Bank of Canada of making hundreds of millions of dollars worth of illegal trades of share futures to get

Higher fuel prices are helping drive car sales in the United States. The US has seen the fastest three-month sales pace in four years at the start

There is more pressure on Greece’s government as the country’s ‘s most influential think tank — the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research —

Fears over radical Islam have gripped France again, amid claims that suspected militants had discussed plans to kidnap a Jewish judge. Preliminary

There is some scepticism among western diplomats over Syria’s pledge to take steps towards a ceasefire under the plan drawn up by peace envoy Kofi

Titanic has once more been raised from the waves. Director James Cameron and a team of 3D specialists have spent 18 months painstakingly converting

Two hands; one male, one female. Their fingers are the stars of the mesmerising Belgian dance production Kiss and Cry. It is a magical miniature

Researchers at the Dutch Forensic Institute are about to test out the resistance of a new synthetic super-skin, which combines human cells with

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It was a happy landing for FARC’s last 10 police and military hostages, flying into freedom after finally being released by the Colombian

Russian authorities say 17 immigrant workers are known to have died in a fire overnight at a covered market in southern Moscow.   The fire swept