Now there was a bowler!

The Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has vowed to go ahead with a rally in Pakistan’s tribal areas aimed at highlighting the human cost of US drone strikes despite a purported death threat levelled at him by the Taliban.

Seventy members of an Islamist sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the city of Kazan in Russia, local media reported.

The seperate state could run along the Syrian coast the King of Jordan has warned.

Gunmen have shot dead at least 19 people in a Christian church in central Nigeria, according to an army official.

Bach's B Minor Mass is too grand for liturgical use, but it was powerful, moving and dramatic at the Royal Albert Hall

The look is familiar, but the Amish remain hard to know, despite this window into their world

A Saudi soldier was shot dead patrolling an area populated by minority Shi'ite Muslims last night, the Interior Ministry said, and one of the gunmen was killed in the ensuing shoot-out.

Starring: Brit Marling, Christopher Denham

Presbyterian pastor Vito Aiuto and his wife Monique's second outing as The Welcome Wagon opens strongly, but ultimately falls prey to the pitfalls of modern country gospelling.

Sister Ruth Augustus, 71, posted six envelopes containing white powder to high profile figures

Batman's back for a spectacular (if spectacularly long) adventure

A suicide bomber blew himself up today in a wedding hall in northern Afghanistan, killing more than 20 people including a well-known commander in an attack that deals a setback to efforts to unify the nation's ethnic factions, Afghan officials said.

The cult members believed that by eating alleged witch doctors' body parts they would attain their spiritual powers, and become bullet-proof