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.

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.