Investigators for the world’s diamond control body say Zimbabwe should be suspended because of crime committed by its security forces.

RIO DE JANEIRO – A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a Sunday night…

Kiwi men aren’t just less inclined to pick up a mop than women – they’re steering clear of textbooks too.

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut – The family of a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee is seeking to sue the state for $150 million.Attorneys for Charla Nash’s family filed a notice Wednesday with a state agency asking…

• Binding agreement not expected in Copenhagen • Administration working towards treaty next year The US has given up hope of reaching a global climate change treaty at Copenhagen and is working towards a deal late next year, the Obama administration said today.

US vets say a household cat has tested positive for swine flu – the first known case in the world of the new pandemic strain spreading to the feline population.

Roger Federer has reached the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors by beating Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-3 6-3.

Hundreds of Chinese villagers are protesting that reports of their deaths have been greatly exaggerated after they were registered as dead and struck from village lists. The taxes villages pay to higher levels of government, and…

NEW YORK – Michelle Obama’s vegetable garden is about to become a culinary battlefield. The Food Network announced today that an episode of “Iron Chef America”..

The Conservatives’ new policy on the EU is “pathetic” and will “castrate” UK influence in Europe, a French minister says.