Scotland’s government announced that it wants to hold a referendum on independence from Britain.

Eastman Kodak, the 131-year-old photography pioneer and once the hottest tech firm on the planet, is reportedly preparing to file for bankruptcy.

New Zealand’s Special Air Service troops will return from Afghanistan in March next year.

Turkey has frozen relations with France in response to approval of a law that may deny that the mass killing of Armenians in 1915 by Ottoman Turks was genocide

New charges have been laid against the skipper and second officer of the cargo ship Rena, which crashed into a reef off the New Zealand port of Tauranga.

Authorities in a flood-stricken southern Philippine city have organised this week the mass burial of nearly 700 people who were swept to their deaths in one of worst calamities to

Sir Michael Somare continues to insist he is Papua New Guinea’s prime minister, despite the governor general and the nation’s civil service backing Peter O’Neill.

Arab League officials arrived in Syria on Thursday to prepare for monitors overseeing an Arab peace plan.

Thousands of silent mourners have accompanied the body of Vaclav Havel through central Prague as the Czech
Republic began three days of national mourning for the icon of the Velve

Butter, of all things, has become a precious commodity in Norway these days, with a shortage of the slippery spread leading to black market sales, astronomical price offers and eve