From world leaders such as U.S. President Barack Obama to colleagues and to former competitors, the message was clear; the world has lost in the death of Steve Jobs a visionary who may never be equaled.

Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed Friday in a joint CIA-military airstrike.

Google and the Israel Museum have combined forces to bring the Dead Sea Scrolls online.

At least eight people were killed, most of them in Metro Manila, as Typhoon “Pedring” (international codename: Nesat) smashed the Philippines with its strong winds and heavy rainfall.

In what may be interpreted as a strategic move to spare the kingdom from the social and political reforms sweeping the Middle East, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has said that women will be allowed to vote and run in municipal elections slated for 2015.

The United Russia party officially nominated Vladimir Putin as its presidential candidate for next year’s election, almost assuring that the 58-year-old leader will retake the position he held from 2000 to 2008.

Diana Nyad will try to defy nature and human endurance anew as she began a non-stop swim from Cuba to Florida late Friday.

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.