May 18, 2013 The most powerful meteor strike on the moon ever observed has just been announced by NASA.

May 18, 2013 British police say they have more than 20 suspects in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who vanished from a family holiday in Portugal six years ago.

May 18, 2013 Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts, woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center of the scandal.

May 18, 2013 For almost five years Indonesia did not execute a prisoner on death row. But since a Malawian drug smuggler broke that drought on March 15, the floodgates have opened. In the early hours of Friday, three people - all Indonesians and all murderers - were taken from their cells and shot.

May 18, 2013 Details have emerged of Australia's treatment of prisoners.

May 18, 2013 New York Times columnist Joe Nocera recently started a blog called the Gun Report, documenting the extent of violence since the Newtown school massacre last December.

May 18, 2013 As Australia gradually winds down in Afghan the challenge of war will only get harder.

May 18, 2013 Two men are dead after a desperate act to save their friends, writes Michael Bachelard.

May 17, 2013 In the unlikely event you've been wondering what it might be like to be a bear's dentist - or a bear's breakfast, for that matter - some footage has come our way that will leave you with a) no further questions, and b) backing away, nice and slow, before running for your life.

May 17, 2013 The United States condemned as "outrageous and offensive" comments by the mayor of the Japanese city of Osaka who said this week that Japan's military brothels during World War Two were "necessary" to provide respite for soldiers.