Police now believe a Chinese student who died in a house fire in Auckland on Monday lived alone. The fire at a Blockhouse Bay Rd property in Avondale that killed Xu Zhou, 24, has been treated as suspicious since an accelerant was found there...

OUTSTANDING LARGE GALLARIA! 2 BRS, 2.5 baths. Gourmet eat in kitchen with Italian tiles. Finished basement...

BEIJING Beijing is urging people to take public transport to reduce the Chinese capital's traffic congestion during an upcoming gathering of African leaders, state media reported Saturday, part of a charm offensive to burnish China's image in Africa...

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Good old Sharp. They just can't be happy with themselves if they're not squeezing an electronic dictionary or other such educational tool into otherwise perfectly good portable media devices...

The sticker on this album reads: "For fans of Botch, Pig Destroyer and Premonitions of War". While I don't completely agree with those stickers, nor should anyone be convinced by them, the bands referenced clearly have an influence on Gaza...

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's government on Wednesday was rocked by two ministerial scandals five days after formally taking office, both centered on female ministers and their nannies...

We list the who's who of women in the private sector, public sector and civil society...

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI has decided to loosen restrictions on use of the old Latin Mass, making a major concession to ultraconservatives who split with the Vatican to protest liberalizing reforms, a Vatican official said today...