A skydiver was making final preparations today for a 130,000 feet attempt to set the world’s highest jump.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has today suspended all international staff presence in Somalia following the killing of three colleagues in what the charity has called "an organised attack".

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto attended a Geneva court to answer questions on allegations she had used Swiss banks to launder millions of dollars in kickbacks, the investigating magistrate said today.

PROSECUTORS in the Michael Jackson child molestation case asked the trial judge yesterday to schedule a hearing as early as next week on whether to admit evidence of alleged prior sexual offences by Jackson.

A former housekeeper at Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch told the singer’s child molestation trial today that the pop star had close friendships with several boys, aged 10 to 14, and that she saw children she believed to be intoxicated at the estate.

King Herod probably died from chronic kidney disease with an unpleasant added complication that led to gangrene of the genitals, an expert said today.