wo Indonesian fishermen were jailed for five years Wednesday for smuggling a boat full of Afghan refugees which exploded, killing five, after it was stopped by Australian border officials. Mohamad Tahir and Beny, both 19, told the Northern Territory...

A town council in Australia’s Outback has proposed discouraging beggars by slapping them with a 130 Australian dollar ($108) fine, but critics argued Friday that such penalties could increase the need for panhandling. Jonathan Pilbrow, of the...

Scientists have found a radical new way of making water that could substantially lower costs for green technology. The University of Illinois researchers have unlocked the trick to making water from unlikely starting materials, such as alcohols.

American officials demand Israel provide explanations for how U.S.-made choppers sold to Israel ended up in service of Columbian drug cartel. Incident may cloud relations between countries Another diplomatic incident threatens to taint U.S.-Israeli...

Alberta gamblers contributed $2.3 billion to the province’s economy in 2006, of which more than $1.6 billion went into government and charity coffers, says a study released Tuesday. Of that figure, $1.3 billion went into the Alberta Lottery Fund,...

When Zimbabwe’s president wants time to think, he speeds along Mugabe Highway to Kutama, the village where he was raised and taught by white missionaries. From the windows of his bullet-proof Mercedes, Robert Gabriel Mugabe must see that he has...