Talk of smuggling usually evokes images of drugs, guns and other contraband -- but it was a fat cat that saw one man punished by Russian airline Aeroflot.

Ukrainian police are looking for 20 fans of the Dynamo Kyiv football team for their reported racial abuse of a Brazilian midfielder.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A pair of Israeli airstrikes targeted senior Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza and in Syria early on Tuesday, escalating Israel’s confrontation with Iran across the region and threatening to unleash another devastating round of cross-border violence with Palestinian militants. In eastern Gaza, the Israeli strike killed Bahaa Abu el-Atta […]

The now 19-year-old college student says he completely forgot about sending the message in a bottle until his dad showed him the response.

Dave Noriega believes the filmmakers of "Midway" were trying to be poignant with a statement they added at the end of movie, but he finds it to be offensive.

New Zealand's government on Monday proposed legislation that would stop certain criminals from going into any place where guns are present.

Police in the Russian city of St. Petersburg plan to interrogate a prominent professor who has been detained on suspicion of killing a female student after he was pulled from a frigid river with a backpack containing severed arms.

Hong Kong's leader pledged on Monday to "spare no effort" in bringing an end to anti-government protests that have wracked the city for more than five months, following a day of violence in which one person was shot and another set on fire.

Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country's south with over 50 billion barrels of crude oil.

An Iranian artist uses a portion of the Berlin Wall as an art installation.