Several hundreds of people have reportedly died in Brazil after heavy rains caused flash floods and mudslides in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Lebanon’s unity government has collapsed after ministers of the opposition Hezbollah and their allies resigned.

More than 70 people were reportedly killed when an Iranian passenger plane crashed in the country’s northwest on Sunday.

The Wall Street Journal has posted photographs of what it says is a prototype of China’s first-ever stealth fighter.

Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav was found guilty on Thursday of raping a Tourism Ministry employee in the late 1990s.

As temperature decreased in recent weeks, 14 people have died in the region with confirmed H1N1 flu and another three have died with a strain known as flu type B.

The 26-year-old CEO and founder of the world’s largest social networking site has been named Time Magazine’s person of the year.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange surrendered to authorities in Britain on Tuesday.

A deadly forest fire in Israel’s northern region went on for a fourth-straight day on Sunday, raising the death toll from the tragedy to 41.

Diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks revealed that several Mideast nations have urged the United States to attack Iran.