Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced Friday he was resigning as head of the Democratic Party of Japan after almost 15 months in office.

Days after Tripoli fell into the hands of rebels, Muammar Gaddafi has released an audio message where the beleaguered Libyan leader claimed that his retreat from Bab al-Aziziya compound was merely a “tactical move.”

High temperatures and droughts have hit China’s Sichuan Province in recent days, which led to a large number of visitors flocking to this indoor pool in Daying County.

Libyan rebels moved closer to a confrontation with besieged leader Muammar Gaddafi on Sunday as they advanced towards the capital Tripoli.

Belgium’s annual Pukkelpop music festival was promptly cancelled on Friday, a day after a storm swept the open-air venue and caused a scaffolding to fall on concertgoers, killing at least five of them and leaving around 140 others injured.

U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down has appeared to have fallen on deaf ears as forces loyal to the 45-year-old leader continued to sow death among protesters .

Iraq was rocked by a series of bombings on Monday, killing at least 90 people in the worst attacks to happen in a single day over the past year.

The video sees German behind-the-wheel-badass Ronny “C-Rock” Wechselberger neatly spin his way neatly into a gap measuring just 26 centimeters (10.24 inches) longer than that of the Volkswagen Polo he’s driving.

The U.S. suffered its deadliest day in Afghanistan on Saturday when a NATO Chinook helicopter crashed in a province not far from the capital Kabul, killing nearly 40 people, including 31 American soldiers.

What a Swedish man calls his pastime has landed him in jail after police caught him trying to split atoms at his own home.