On a taxi ride to his farmhouse the day before he killed 77 people, Anders Behring Breivik talked easily of a future he must have known would never come.

Mystery surrounds the circumstances of the killing of Libya's rebel military commander, Gen Abdel Fattah Younes, a day after he and two aides were shot.

The specter of a China with rising influence in the world has long provoked anxiety here in America.

Sponsoring a child in the developing world is a popular form of charitable giving. But what do the children themselves make of the system?

Learning all lessons from the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power station could take a decade, according to France's top nuclear safety officer.

The prices of staple foods will more than double in 20 years unless world leaders take action to reform the global food system, Oxfam has warned.

Carbon emissions are at their highest ever levels, stoking fears of a global temperature rise over the "dangerous" two degrees Celsius threshold, according to data cited by the Guardian newspaper.

Fifty years after the so-called Freedom Riders risked their lives to break desegregation laws on the US transport system, the veteran activists have reunited to inspire a new generation.

An Amnesty International report on Ivory Coast has said both sides in the country's recent political and military crisis committed war crimes.

India's 2011 census shows a serious decline in the number of girls under the age of seven - activists fear eight million female foetuses may have been aborted in the past decade. The BBC's Geeta Pande [ … ]