Doctor Zhong Nanshan says he doubts the official Chinese death toll from the H1N1 virus and says China must beware of the virus mutating into a montrous hybrid.
The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer and jailer in Cambodia in the 1970s expresses "excruciating remorse" in the final stages of his trial before the U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal.
With the flick of a switch, nearly a million lightbulbs are illuminated as the city of light turned on its Christmas illuminations along its most imposing avenue, the Champs Elysees.
An international robot exhibition in Tokyo showcases the changing face of robotics.
U.S. President Barack Obama hosts a White House dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Chinese authorities execute two people convicted over the 2008 tainted milk powder scandal that killed at least six children and made nearly 300,000 ill.
The day's top showbiz news and headlines including Adam Lambert's performance backlash, Tyler Perry's generous donation, and Susan Boyle's album debut.
A program that pays forest families to guard the environment is Brazil's latest tool to cut deforestation ahead of December's global climate talks in Copenhagen.
The World Health Organisation is looking into reports of the spread of a drug-resistant strain of H1N1 swine flu in several countries -- including the U.S., the U.K. and China.
Iran's Ahmadinejad arrives in Bolivia as part of South American tour to rally support in region.
President Barack Obama said at a joint news conference with India's Prime Minister, that he will announce a new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan within days.
Exhaustive hearings into why Britain entered the Iraq war have just opened in London, but critics are already branding it a failure.
Conservationists release a rare falcon back into the wild after rescuing seven of the birds from poachers.
President Obama welcomed Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House, as Obama played host for his first state visit.
More than two million Muslims gather this week for the annual haj pilgrimage to Islam's holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
A plane powered by renewable fuel has circled the skies over the Netherlands, in the world's first biofuel passenger carrying flight.
A Munich school and job centre gets Santa Clauses ready for the Christmas rush.
Demonstrators wearing blood-smeared masks of the former British and U.S. leaders stage a protest at the start of an official inquiry into Britain's involvement in the Iraq war.
Venezuelan students stage a hunger strike in Caracas to protest President Hugo Chavez's policies.
Three cheetah cubs debut at a Tokyo zoo, attracting thousands of visitors.
The White House is acknowledging that getting a binding agreement for cutting greenhouse gases at the Copenhagen Summit is very unlikely.
Indonesians express disappointment with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's handling of a corruption case.
Heavy security patrols the streets of a southern Philippines town, after a massacre left at least 24 people abducted and brutally murdered.
As India's Singh arrives for State visit in Washington, President Obama may face a balancing act when it comes to South Asia.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in Brazil for the first leg of the controversial Iranian President's South American tour.
The day's top showbiz news and headlines including Taylor Swift wins big at AMAs, Michael Jackson's white glove headed to Macau casino, and Dr. Conrad Murray back to work.
A town in Cumbria cut in two after its last standing bridge was closed due devastating floods.
The South African Mint Company manually presses a FIFA 2010 World Cup coin at the renovated Soccer City stadium that will host the first and final matches of the tournament.
Following a tradition that goes back hundreds of years, Hamburg's swan representative takes his birds to their winter abode.
Rescue workers free 18 people trapped in a van caught up in an avalanche in Turkey.
Hundreds of Malaysian boys begin the journey into adulthood at mass circumcision ceremonies.
Bartenders from around the world show-off their bottle juggling skills with the hope of winning the Grand Slam in flair bartending in Warsaw, Poland.
Thousands of Pakistanis are displaced as the government offensive against the Taliban on the Afghanistan border picks up.
An Australian couple competing in a speedboat race in Temora Australia escape a spectacular accident without injury.
Family members search in vain for answers after their loved ones were killed in a gas explosion in China's northeast.
Ferry crashes in bad weather off Indonesia's Riau islands, killing at least 29 people.
The world's last running narrow-gauge passenger steam train is still going strong in mountainous rural China, but that's not necessarily a good thing for the locals.
The day's top showbiz news and headlines including "New Moon" rules the box office, Jackson's white glove is sold, and Robbie Williams is looking for investors.
Honduras gets ready to vote for a new president on November 29 in an election overshadowed by a military coup that toppled elected president Manuel Zelaya and plunged the impoverished nation into ...