Churchill's last surviving child dies aged 91
Lady Mary Soames, the last surviving child of Britain's World War II prime minister Winston Churchill, has died at the age of 91, her family announced.
Volcanic ash halts flights to north Australian city
Flights into and out of the northern Australian city of Darwin were cancelled Saturday and some to Bali affected due to huge ash clouds thrown up by an Indonesian volcano.
World No Tobacco Day: WHO urged not to snuff out e-cig
The e-cigarette was pushed centre stage ahead of World No Tobacco Day, with doctors and policy experts urging the UN's health agency to embrace the gadget as a life saver.
Kazakh mountain conquerer to try out AlaskaFamous mountain climber from Kazakhstan Maksut Zhumayev is setting off to climb North America’s highest mountain peak Mount McKinley.
28 May 2014
Chinese elderly commit suicide to avoid coffin banSix elderly people in China are said to have committed suicide to ensure they died before new regulations banning coffin burials come into force, a newspaper reported.
28 May 2014
Brazil seizes spoiled food from World Cup hotelsBrazilian health officials have raided hotels that will host visiting World Cup teams, including England and Italy, and confiscated expired food such as shrimp and salmon from their kitchens.
Australian paper shows Kate's bare bottomOne of Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspapers on Wednesday published a picture showing the bare bottom of Prince William's wife Kate, refusing to follow a "ridiculous" ban imposed by the British media.
28 May 2014
Rare Australian conjoined twins dieAustralian conjoined twins Hope and Faith, who shared a body and skull but had separate brains and identical faces, have died almost three weeks after they were born in Sydney, medical officials said.
27 May 2014
Mexican man, once world's heaviest, dies at 48A Mexican man who was once the world's heaviest human when he weighed, weighing 597 kilos (1,316 pounds) at one point, has died at the age of 48, medical officials said.