The mother of killed war journalist Marie Colvin, who died alongside a French photojournalist in Syria, told journalists her daughter was "totally committed to what she did".
Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times war correspondent, was killed by Syrian forces acting on direct orders to murder Western journalists, it has been claimed.
Footage posted to social media sites shows the moment a commuter train crashed into the buffers at a Buenos Aires station and trapped passengers struggling to escape from the wreckage.
Modern America is locked in a "spiritual war" between good and evil and is under direct attack from Satan, according Rick Santorum, the evangelic Catholic surging ahead in the race to take on Barack Obama this November.
Ratings agency Fitch says Greek debt write-off will constitute a "rating default," as the country's main unions prepare to hold anti-austerity protests later today.
A prostitute has claimed that Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to get her a visa to work in the US during his time as head of the International Monetary Fund, it has emerged.
Speaking presciently at an event for journalists in 2010, the late Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin gives a prescient warning of the dangers facing those working in war zones.
Somali troops helped Ethiopian forces to seize one of the principal strongholds of the al-Shabaab Islamic insurgency yesterday in a crucial victory ahead of today's (Thursday's) London summit to discuss the country's future.
A morning commute was turned into a scene of carnage on Wednesday after at least 550 people were injured and an unknown number killed when a packed train slammed into the end of the line at a busy station in Buenos Aires.
Hungary is to be stripped of Brussels funding aimed at Europe's poorest regions and worth £417 million next year in punishment for breaking EU rules on budget deficits, under a European Commission proposal.
Russia has warned a strike against Iran could have "catastrophic" consequences and urged leaders not to rush into any conclusions after this week's failed mission by UN nuclear experts.
Tributes have been paid to Marie Colvin, a Sunday Times journalist, who was killed alongside a French photographer in the besieged Syrian city of Homs.
Hamid Karzai appeared to try to use deadly protests that have broken out following the burning of Korans at an American airfield to push the US to hand over its biggest prison in Afghanistan.
Heinrich Himmler, the infamous Nazi leader of the SS, was enthralled with eastern mysticism and always carried an ancient text on yoga wherever he went, a new book has claimed.