SYDNEY – An Australian street performer has set a new Guinness World Record by swallowing 18 swords at the same time.Chayne Hultgren, aka The Space Cowboy, swallowed the blades, 72cm long, in Sydney THIS morning.The 31-year-old…

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut – At least five workers at the Kleen Energy Systems plant died after a test of natural gas lines caused an explosion, blowing out the walls of the unfinished power plant.Deputy Fire Marshal Al Santostefano…

EVOLENE, Switzerland – A skier was buried beneath an avalanche for 17 hours in the Swiss Alps before being pulled from the snow with only mild hypothermia, police said.The 21-year-old man appeared to have survived because he was…

The US is preparing a major attack on the Taliban, the militants are being squeezed in their Pakistani sanctuaries, and the Afghan government is trying to draw them into peace talks.

More than half of Chinese people questioned in a poll believe China and America are heading for a new “cold war”.

SAN FRANCISCO – Police say one person is dead and four critically injured after a shooting outside a nightclub near San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf.A police spokesman says the shooting around 1:40 a.m. Sunday took place outside…

PORT-AU-PRINCE – The battered bodies may be mending, but the minds still struggle.As many as one in five Haiti earthquake victims have suffered trauma so great with the multiple shock of lost homes, jobs and loved ones that they…

Sarah Palin declared “America is ready for another revolution” and repeatedly assailed President Barack Obama yesterday before adoring “tea party” activists, a seemingly natural conservative constituency should she run for President.”This…

Tony Hughes is Ray Martin’s nightmare: a republican firmly in favour of dumping the Queen, but not the symbol of her power that sits at the top left of the Australian flag.Martin, the millionaire television journalist and presenter…

WASHINGTON – Residents of the US capital and Mid-Atlantic states have started digging out from piles of wet, heavy snow in below-freezing temperatures while power crews tried to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes…