Chinese tourism is now open in Canada, thanks to the recent visit of Canada’s Prime Minister to the asian republic.

Kofi Yamgnane traded his native Togo four decades ago for Brittany, where he became France’s first-ever black mayor. After a full career in his...

Families displaced by fighting in South Waziristan — some pro-Taliban, others anti-Taliban -- queue up to register as displaced with ...

The political crisis in Honduras following the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya in a June coup is starving the country’s already weak economy ...

Vast crowds of pilgrims cast stones at walls symbolizing Satan on the third day of the Hajj in Saudi Arabia. Around the world, Muslims have beg...

Pilgrims pelted pillars symbolising the devil with pebbles to show their defiance on the third day of the Hajj celebration.

Bucharest is not exactly known for its picturesque visage, the city scarred by ageing concrete apartment blocks and the outsized palace of the ...

New surveillance video shows one of the suspects behind a massive luggage theft scheme caught in the act at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport.

Travelers help keep things moving at Los Angeles International Airport the day before the Thanksgiving holiday. They are packing light and leavi...

Michelin has added a cheap restaurant category to its new Hong Kong and Macau guide, after critics accused the culinary bible of ignoring the c...

Strapped for cash, the Palace of Versailles is giving up shapely statues and marble benches for adoption to individuals who will pay for their ...

In Nepal, a Hindu festival calls for a mass animal sacrifice. Some 200,000 buffaloes, goats and chickens will be killed as art of the blood-soa...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed next to President Hugo Chavez that Iran and Venezuela would "stand together until the end" in the fa...

Pilgrims flooded into the Arafat plain from Mecca and Mina before dawn for a key ritual around Mount Arafat, the site where Mohammed gave his f...

The book by an escort at the heart of a sex scandal involving the Italian Prime Minister hits the book shops with details of their alleged lovem...

The roughly half a million people living with HIV in Russia brave a daily dose of discrimination. Despite laws protecting them from bias, many ...

Hundreds of thousands of animals have been slaughtered in Nepal. The two-day Gadhimai festival honours the Hindu goddess of power and takes plac...

Undergoing a sex-change procedure has just got harder in Thailand. The aim is to stop people making a hastily-made, irreversible decision. But ...

Prosecutors demanded a 40-year jail term Wednesday for Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch, as he expressed "excruciating remorse" for the deaths of ...