FROM South Korea to South America, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon yesterday married tens of thousands of couples in the Unification Church’s largest mass wedding…
AMERICANS Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories…
MISS Venezuela was the fairest of them all once again, winning the 2009 Miss Universe crown for the second year straight and the sixth time…
NORTH Korea announced yesterday it had agreed to resume reunions of families separated by the border with South Korea and restart stalled tourism ventures in…
Gorilla Gana nurses her two-day-old offspring at a zoo in Muenster, Germany, yesterday. The traumatized gorilla who carried around her dead baby’s body for several…
HUNDREDS of police officers were scouring the streets of Tel Aviv today in a door-to-door manhunt for a gunman who opened fire on a gay…
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found five well-preserved Roman shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of vases, pots and other objects…
AT least 17 people were killed when a passenger plane caught fire during its landing in northeastern Iran yesterday, the state IRNA news agency reported.…
A MALAYSIAN prince has denied claims by an Indonesian teen model that he slashed her with razor blades, locked her up and used her as…
DEFIANTLY low-tech yet accurate to the second, Big Ben is having its 150th birthday tomorrow, its Victorian chimes carrying the sound of Britain into the…