The son of a Philippines clan boss, suspected of the massacre of at least 57 journalists and political activists, turned himself in today, as investigators announced that the entire police force of his family’s ancestral town was under suspicion...

At least five people have died in a shooting incident in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific. The gunman killed four local people in the main island of Saipan, reports say. He also reportedly went to a tourist area and shot at a group of...

North Korea raised the stakes in its nuclear stand-off with the world yesterday by threatening a military strike against South Korea. Kim Jong-Il’s secretive regime warned that it would launch an attack if any of its vessels were intercepted as...

Prostitution is cliché-ishly called the oldest profession in the world but surely it is promiscuity which predates the flesh trade.

The first lungless frog has been discovered lurking in the jungles of Borneo. The enigmatic amphibian, dubbed Barbourula kalimantanensis, apparently gets all the oxygen it needs through its skin.