A court in Germany has convicted six former employees of a Nuremberg crematorium for collecting and selling gold fillings taken from the dead. The men made a profit of €135,000 by selling the precious metal.

The military threat presented by North Korea has not diminished despite early steps ordered by Pyongyang to begin dismantling its nuclear weapons program, the South Korean defense minister said Wednesday

He also cited repeated interference in government by a hostile judiciary. The militants' advance into Swat was one of the key factors, indicating that rebels are branching out into new areas from their traditional base in Afghanistan

Earlier, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report cautioned that human activity-induced climate change is causing high global temperatures that would adversely impact developing countries the most

Mince pie and postage stamps don't sound like particularly nefarious items. But use them improperly and you could be considered an outlaw in the United Kingdom.

A plastered German man seems to have forgotten that he didn't have a garage. He repeatedly crashed his Citroen into the side of his home -- destroying most of the house.

When the US decided that its backyard would in future be a greater Middle East – from Pakistan to Morocco – it imagined that it could rearrange the region to suit itself. The results have been disastrous and will be long-lasting

Nick Bollea was arrested Wednesday on charges stemming from the Aug. 26 crash in Clearwater that left a passenger in his car critically injured. Bollea is the 17-year-old son of famed wrestler Hulk Hogan

As Pakistan teeters on the verge of chaos, the West looks on nervously and prays that the country's nuclear weapons don't fall into the wrong hands. German commentators feel that the West -- and the US in particular -- share part of the blame for the mess

While critics of the economic horrors of globalisation argue, a new and even more brutal form of capitalism is in action. The new vultures are private equity companies, predatory investment funds with vast amounts of capital at their disposal and an enorm