MUMBAI, Phil Hazlewood - The traditional image of finishing schools is of the Swiss Alps, where elegant young ladies from well-to-do families learn to walk, talk and make conversation before entering...
LOS ANGELES - A riot at a prison in southern California left 55 inmates hospitalized with serious injuries and more than 200 others with minor injuries, a spokesman for the state prison said Sunday....
TEL AVIV - More than 70,000 people thronged Tel Aviv on Saturday evening for an event to express solidarity with the homosexual community after a deadly attack on a gay club a week ago, organisers...
WASHINGTON - A Texas man sentenced to life in prison has been released after 23 years behind bars after DNA tests proved his innocence, the man's lawyer said in a statement.
A judge in Texas...
LOS ANGELES - John Hughes, best known for directing a string of 1980s hit movies including "The Breakfast Club," and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 59....
LONDON- Ronnie Biggs, who spent 35 years on the run for his part in the 1963 heist known as the Great Train Robbery, is to be released from jail, the British government said Thursday, as his son said...
OTTAWA - A Saudi businessman has purchased what is being described by the Canadian seller as the world's most expensive adult novelty item -- a solid 18-carat gold penis enlarger worth nearly 50,000...
NEW YORK- A US student who recently graduated from New York's Monroe College said Monday she had filed a complaint with the school accusing it of being responsible for her inability to find work....
LONDON - A former banker who is unable to quit smoking is to spend August on a remote uninhabited Scottish island in a bid to break the habit, newspapers reported on Saturday.
Geoff Spice will be...
PARIS - Tens of thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses gathered on Saturday in cities across France for an annual international gathering, the religious movement said.
About 150,000 flocked to meetings...