Sometimes the bait is a small amount of cash in a stray wallet. Or a credit card. Even a pack of cigarettes…

A man has forced a woman to drive 70 kilometres at knifepoint in Queensland. Police say the 19-year-old woman was stopped…

A barrage of bullets and two car bomb blasts rattled Mogadishu today when nine al-Shabab Islamic extremists stormed Somalia's…

1. Suspected terrorists arrested

Two Muslim Brotherhood officials have been sent to trial on charges of kidnapping and torturing three men during protests…

1. Egypt: Judges recommend Brotherhood's dissolution

Police say they've got the US$3,200 engagement ring a New Hampshire man allegedly swallowed during an…

A Polish bus carrying Russian youngsters has crashed through the guardrails of a bridge and plunged five metres to a field…

Dr. Hilary Koprowski, a pioneering virologist who developed the first successful oral vaccination for polio, has died. He…

1. IVF pioneer Robert Edwards dead at age 87

A month of commemorative events marking the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising has begun, with a communal cleaning…

A fire has claimed the lives of reptiles, insects and a male otter at the Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland. Officials said…

1. Alarm over vanishing frogs in the Caribbean

Despite North Korea's warnings that the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula is so high it cannot guarantee…

1. video No panic in Sth Korea despite talk of missile test (1:19)

Investigators are trying to work out how an Indonesian passenger plane overshot the runway at Bali airport before crashing…

The Los Angeles Police Department last week dispatched a squad car to comic Russell Brand's home in the Hollywood Hills…

1. Russell Brand wants 'threesome' with Kardashians

The trial of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak opened with a chaotic hearing Saturday, lasting just seconds as a combative Mubarak smiled…

A background check will not scoop up those who have lower level mental health problems, writes Anna Fifield. Nor will it…

1. US state designs tough gun laws

A Lion Air jet carrying more than 100 passengers and crew crashed into the ocean while attempting to…

Despite growing international tension following nuclear threats from North Korea, an international marathon took place in…

Hundreds of opponents of former British PM Margaret Thatcher partied in London's Trafalgar Square to celebrate her death…

1. video Londoners react to death of the 'Iron Lady' (0:42)

A 7-year-old girl has become Beijing's first confirmed case of the latest strain of bird flu.

1. video China bird flu not spreading between people (1:12)

Japanese officials have mistakenly announced the launch of a North Korean missile instead of sending an alert about a strong…

1. video US tries to tamp down new concerns over NKorea (1:59)

British military scientists have found forensic evidence that chemical weapons have been used in the…

1. video Raw: Syrian woman caught in gun battle (2:15)

President Barack Obama's budget overtures to Republicans may limit his bargaining power if the opposition party ever returns…

1. video Justin Timberlake, Ben Harper play the White House (1:09)

President Bashar al-Assad has exploited his greatest advantage in the Syrian civil war - his air power - to push back rebel…

1. video Obama on Syria: Chem weapons a 'game-changer' (1:35)

Secretary of State John Kerry worked Monday to corral Israeli and Palestinian leaders into a new and ambitious peace process…

1. Six Americans killed in Afghan attacks

Tauranga lawyer Belinda Pidwell will never forget a Bosnian man tell how he and his family were lined up and shot.