Terrorists took out another high-profile victim on Tuesday when a lone suicide bomber attacked and killed former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani in his home in the capital Kabul.

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked the Himalayas Sunday evening, causing widespread damage parts of India, Nepal, and Tibet.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has reportedly been recorded boasting about his sexual prowess to a businessman friend.

Leila Lopes of Angola was crowned Miss Universe 2011 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, becoming the first from her country to bag the prestigious beauty title.

An overcrowded ferry sank off the waters of Zanzibar on Saturday, drowning more than 100 people with many others believed to be missing.

The International Police Organization has officially joined the hunt for fallen Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, even as more officials allied with the former strongman continue to seek refuge in nearby Niger.

At least 43 people have reportedly died when a Russian passenger aircraft carrying a professional hockey team crashed Wednesday shortly after taking off from Tunoshna Airport in the city of Yaroslavi Oblast.

Villagers and experts have caught a gigantic crocodile in a small town in the southern Philippines, reports said.

The 51-year-old Frenchman justified himself by saying health problems and chronic fatigue due to difficult working hours were the cause of his inability to perform, however this did not convince the judge of southern France’s highest court in Aix-en-Provence.

A former German chancellor has called for the creation of a United States of Europe to make the continent more equipped to deal with financial and economic problems.