Obama: Republicans 'trying to mess with me' with budget bill

A distracted British tourist was trampled to death by an elephant in Masinagudi National Park in India while out birdwatching, close to a southern Indian tiger reserve.

Complying on the deadline stipulated in the US-Russia deal on Syrian chemicals arms disarmament, Syria has submitted its first inventory of chemical weapons arsenal, according to reports.

A New York State Supreme Court judge's ruling held a New York City teacher should not have lost his job after he was found to be in possession of heroin at a New York City courthouse.

The return for a Boston homeless man, Glen James on his act of honesty keeps growing. James turned in a backpack he found with $42,000 in it and another man, impressed by the deed, set up a donation website for him.

A chronic shortage of toilet paper in Venezuela has forced the government to control toilet paper factories, according to reports.

Tufts University has released a report citing ethics violations in genetically modified food research. This has led to the lead investigator resigning and being barred from any future GMO work with humans.

According to Syria's deputy prime minister Qadri Jamil, the Syrian conflict is a stalemate with neither side able to win. He claims that the Syrian government will press for a cease fire at an upcoming conference in Geneva.

This week marked the 151st anniversary of the American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland. This horrific confrontation resulted in the bloodiest day in United States history, with over 23,000 casualties on both sides

The incoming Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, has not appointed a science minister. This means that Australian will be without a minister for science or technology for the first time since 1931.

Pakistan has released Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, its most senior Afghani Taliban prisoner. He is one of the co-founders of the Taliban.

Yesterday one of the big stories on BBC Television news was a steep rise in cases of sexual predators online. These do exist, but are they the real problem?

The US apparently plans to test missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads next week even though Sept. 21 is the International Day of Peace, and Sept. 26 is the day scheduled for a High Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament at the UN in New York.

Papers recently obtained by a journalist under freedom of information laws (FOIA requests) show just how close the US Eastern seaboard came to being engulfed in a nuclear holocaust in 1961.

The free range concentration camp sometimes known as unaffordable healthcare in the US is back in its familiar, shabby political form as a form of social and political blackmail.

Max Lucado is a pastor, speaker and author with an outlook on life that focuses on answers, where answers seem in short supply. His latest offering is another short read which offers hope, even when hope is in short supply.

The mother of Jihad, a three-year-old boy, who sent him to school wearing a t-shirt with "I am a bomb" on the front and his name and "Born on September 11th" on the back, has received a suspended jail sentence and a fine on Friday.

Authorities say that more than 800 snakes, including two 6-foot Burmese pythons, which are illegal in the state of New York, were found inside a man's home, where he ran a side business selling them.

In an interview with an influential Jesuit journal, Pope Francis blasted the Catholic Church's 'obsession' with homosexuality, abortion and birth control.

Scientists have modeled an outbreak of the bee infection American foulbrood , using a technique which could be applied to other honeybee diseases.Tthe method also allows scientists to simulate disease control strategies in order to measure their efficacy.

Al Jazeera reports that hundreds of fighters under the western-backed umbrella group Free Syrian Army(FSA) have pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda-linked groups including the al-Nusra front in Raqqah province that borders on Turkey.

A couple's wedding ended up being delayed after a man allegedly cut his testicles off before entering the church just one hour before the ceremony was going to take place.

Nonreligious Americans have started a political action committee (PAC) with the goal of electing like-minded, free-thinking candidates.

Russian security services boarded the Dutch-flagged icebreaker, Arctic Sunrise, seizing the ship and arresting the crew. The ship belongs to Greenpeace International. Geenpeace says the ship was in international waters.

Two trains collided at Barcelona's Sants station on Friday morning, injuring 22 people. Of these, 10 required treatment and one person was hospitalized.

A simple case of cause and effect may be why the world's coral reefs have been trending towards decline. According to a new study, the killing of too many sharks is also killing the population of herbivorous fish that keep reefs healthy.

In the fallout from Russian President Vladimir Putin's open letter to Americans and U.S. Senator John McCain's response, I would like to offer an alternative letter to President Putin.

The purely symbolic motion was introduced to show Ontario will never go the way of Quebec and ban the wearing of religious symbols by government employees.

Yesterday in a 217 - 210 vote, the House passed legislation that would cut spending on food stamp programs over the next 10 years.

Inspired by a documentary on Egyptian Pharaohs and instilled with a desire to enjoy a lavish lifestyle after his death, a Brazilian businessmen has decided to bury his £310,000 Bentley with a dream to use it in the afterlife.

A Tennessee judge on Wednesday overturned a lower court's ruling that changed a baby's first name from "Messiah" to Martin because "'Messiah' is a title that is held only by Jesus Christ."

Militants in Yemen mounted attacks in the south of Yemen. Two car bombs killed 21 soldiers at a military camp near the coast. Ten police were killed in the town of Mayfaa.

Earlier this month, the Swedish government announced it would offer blanket asylum to all Syrians fleeing their country's two-year civil war, a brutal conflict which has claimed more than 100,000 lives.

The recent horrific spree killing in Washington is not the first time mass murder of that kind has come to the American capital.

The Philippine city of Zamboanga of more than 800,000 people is slowly getting back to normal even though there are still remnants of a rebel Muslim force fighting in adjacent villages on the coast.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was on his way to Beijing for bilateral talks with the Chinese government. His plans were delayed by the USA denying Maduro's plane a path through Puerto Rico's airspace.

In a horrifying incident, a five-month-old baby of US and Canadian parents has died after being placed on a luggage conveyor belt in the airport, which then started moving without the parents being aware.

A Canadian family is angry and swearing off Coca-Cola products after they found the words "You Retard" printed right underneath the cap of a VitaminWater bottle.

In an effort to protect the innocence of childhood, France voted on Tuesday night to ban beauty pageants for children under 16.

The new military-backed government of Egypt is now just as repressive in enforcing a blockade of Gaza as are the Israelis. The only crossing from Egypt is often closed and when it is open only a trickle of people are allowed through.