Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino has died of cardiac arrest after battling colon cancer for more than a year. She was 76.

An album featuring the voice of Pope Benedict XVI is to be released worldwide later this year, Geffen Records announced on Thursday.

Scott Carney of WIRED interviewed a Somali pirate.

Dozens of Haitian migrants went missing after a boat carrying about 200 of them capsized and sank off the coast of the Caribbean islands of
Turks and Caicos on Monday.

A Russian combat ship preparing for a holiday celebration accidentally fired a dummy artillery shell and landed just feet from an apartment building in the port city of Vladivostok.

Festival director Richard Moore believes the hacking of the site has been carried out by Chinese people outside Australia, who are angry over the film fest’s decision to screen a documentary about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer.

An 18-year-old girl beat hundreds of contestants in a Saudi beauty pageant to win a crown, jewelry, cash and a trip to Malaysia—without showing her face.

North Korea has opened its first fast food restaurant in its capital of Pyongyang, The Korea Times reported on Sunday, citing the Choson Sinbo, a pro-North Korean newspaper based in Japan.

Harry Patch, the last British survivor of World War I, has died at age 111.

At least 17 people were killed and 21 injured Friday when a passenger plane crash-landed in northeastern Iran— the country’s second air disaster in less than two weeks.

Police in the Dominican Republic have been torturing people with onions to obtain information about crimes, the National Commission on Human Rights has alleged.