Eight people were killed and four others were injured in gunmen attacks in a discotheque in southwestern Colombia on Sunday morning.
Thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain outside France's oldest nuclear power plant on Sunday to demand the site be closed as the government mulls whether to extend its life by a decade.
Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect threw bombs at a drinking spot in Nigeria's northeastern town of Maiduguri on Sunday, killing around 25 people, witnesses and military sources said.
What is believed to be the only surviving authenticated portrait of Billy the Kid went up for auction in Denver on Saturday and sold for $2.3 million.
A young Emperor penguin stranded in New Zealand has survived two medical procedures and now has an offer of a lift home.
The Libyan government on Sunday renewed its offer to hold a vote on whether Muammar Gadhafi should stay in power, a proposal unlikely to interest Gadhafi's opponents but which could widen differences inside NATO.
Paris' spring-summer 2012 menswear shows melted into the past on Sunday, wrapping up in a pool of perspiration on the year's hottest day yet.
Jose Graziano da Silva of Brazil has been elected director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the UN agency tasked with reducing world hunger at a time of record high food prices.
A close friend of British Prime Minister David Cameron has been found dead in a portable toilet at the Glastonbury music festival
Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, who play husband and wife in an upcoming film, have taken the roles to heart.
Israel's ambassador to the Vatican has backed off his praise of Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pope blamed by some Jews for having failed to speak out enough against the Holocaust.
Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko must stand trial next Wednesday on a charge of abuse of power, a judge ruled in a pre-trial hearing.The charge carries a jail term of at least seven years.