Farmers in the west of Venezuela are resisting plans by populist firebrand leader Hugo Chavez to seize their land and hand it over to flood ...

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A set of Winston Churchill's false teeth has sold at auction for 16,000 pounds. The British wartime leader had problems with his teeth, and ...

One of two Egyptians who set themselves on fire on Tuesday died after an apparent to copy a Tunisian whose self-immolation sparked a ...

Every year, the people of San Bartolome de Pinares mark St. Anthony's day by riding their horses, donkeys and mules through piles of ...

It's a beauty contest with a difference Israel's annual "Miss Fat and Beautiful," sees women from across the country -- all weighing a ...

Riot police broke up a protest led by a key figure in Tunisia's banned Islamist movement on Tuesday as demonstrators called for the ouster ...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vowed to publish secret details of offshore accounts after a Swiss banking whistleblower handed over data ...