The 77 000kg Endeavour space shuttle has journeyed 19km to its new home at the California Science Centre where it will feature in a new exhibit.
Britain’s health secretary has said the limit for women to have abortions should be 12 weeks, igniting criticism from opposition and activists.
Arsenal has maintained its perfect start to the Champions League, scoring 3-1 over Olympiakos while Man City escaped with a 1-1 draw against Dortmund.
An appeal by three members of jailed rock band Pussy Riot has been postponed after one of them fired her lawyers.
Lower Manhattan has blossomed from tragedy into tourist magnet in the years since the September 11, 2001 attacks. But there also have been downsides.
President Jacob Zuma says mining unrest will be resolved through negotiation and is not a symptom of inequalities surfacing 18 years after apartheid.
The empty whisky bottles and overturned, sand-filled skiffs that litter the Somali shoreline are signs that the heyday of Somali piracy may be over.
A Libyan rebel credited with capturing Muammar Gaddafi in a drainage ditch last year has died of injuries at the hands of the ex-leader’s supporters.
English Premier League champions Manchester City have been eliminated from the League Cup at the first hurdle by Aston Villa.
The Louvre Museum is unveiling a new wing and galleries dedicated to the arts of Islam in a $130-million, decade-long project.
Soldiers manning a checkpoint in northern Nigeria have killed two members of a radical sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year alone.
Down 2-0 to the best clay court playing nation in the world, the US is in a bad place in its Davis Cup semifinal against Spain.
The promoters of Michael Jackson’s ill-fated 2009 comeback concert series feared he was unstable, with one describing him as a "mess".
First Kaka wanted to leave, now Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo says he’s "sad" at the Spanish club.
Hal David, famous for composing many timeless tunes, including "Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head", has died in Los Angeles.
Congo said it wants the UN peacekeeping force to "neutralise" a new rebel movement and a force that helped perpetrate Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.
South Africa’s Hashim Amla and Vernon Philander have been shortlisted for the International Cricketer of the Year award.
Four people, including two German tourists, have died after a plane they had chartered crashed in the famed Masai Mara game reserve.
Intense fighting between rebels and Syrian regime forces killed six people, including two children and two women in the southern city of Dara’a.
Robin van Persie has become the latest big-name player to slip from Arsenal’s grasp when the Dutch striker completed his move to Manchester United.
It’s the latest prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with the opposite sex: glasses that blur their vision.
The NPA says it has "reasonable evidence" that crimes against humanity had alleged occurred in Madagascar.
The skeleton of Australia’s most notorious criminal will finally be returned to his family – 132 years after he was executed.
A judge has granted Sheryl Crow a temporary restraining order against a man who is accused of threatening to shoot the Grammy-winning artist.
The enduring image of the Summer and Winter Games, is out of sight from the throngs of fans who hoped to catch an inspiring glimpse.
Katherine Jackson’s attorney has said that he had met with his client face-to-face for the first time in several days and that she was doing fine.
The matriarch of the Jackson family says she is devastated by a judge’s ruling to temporarily strip her guardianship of Michael Jackson’s children.
Christian Bale has visited survivors of the Colorado shooting and stopped by a makeshift memorial to victims of the attack that killed 12 people.
Sherman Hemsley, the actor who played the irascible, bigoted George Jefferson of "The Jeffersons" has died at the age of 74.
A Russian mayor and two other officials have been arrested for failing to issue warnings and evacuate residents during floods that killed 171 people.
Tanzania’s government has halted rescue operations for a ferry accident that appears to have killed 146 people.
James Eagen Holmes came from a well-tended San Diego enclave where neighbours recall him as a clean-cut, studious young man of sparing words.