A man entered a U.S. elementary school armed with a Kalashnikov Tuesday and took employees hostage before surrendering, authorities said. No one was wounded when he "held a few staff members captive in the front

Sixteen people were killed and dozens injured Wednesday when a bus plunged into a river as it returned from a church outing on Indonesia's main island of Java, police said. The bus was carrying 60

Floods in the Russian Far East broke historic records Monday as authorities evacuated over 19,000 people from affected areas and warned of a further rise in water levels. Levels in the Amur river which flows

Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are probing the death of a Norwegian prisoner in a case of suspected murder or suicide, the government said Monday. The body of Tjostolv Moland was "discovered yesterday,

The European Commission said Monday that imposing taxes or toll fees at EU member-state borders would be "illegal", as a diplomatic tug-of-war between Britain and Spain over Gibraltar escalated. "We can confirm that any tax

There’s nothing trashy about Gregory Kloehn’s Brooklyn pied-a-terre: a live-in dumpster that sleeps two with ease, hosts impromptu barbecue parties and sports its own sundeck. It’s the California artist’s tin-can contribution to the tiny-house

Gibraltar is pleased that Spain is "at last" thinking of taking its longstanding dispute over the sovereignty of the British outpost to international courts, Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told Agence France Presse in

A former aide to Barack Obama has said the U.S. president resorted to playing cards on the day Osama bin Laden was killed, such was the tension over the raid. Reggie Love, a personal assistant

Ex-Finance Minister Soumaila Cisse said he had congratulated his rival Keita on winning the vote and wished him good luck, the AFP reported on Monday. Cisse's concession, hours after he complained the election had been

At least 44 worshippers have been shot dead after gunmen opened fire at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, government officials said. The killings occurred during dawn prayers on Sunday morning, although reports only emerged on