A Brazilian man who went to a clinic to have an aching ear checked ended up having a vasectomy after mistakenly believing that the doctor had called his name.

On the ocean floor off the Florida Keys, one of the world's foremost science labs sits at the frontier of marine biology, crusted with critters, nibbled by fish, scoured by the shifting sea.

A 33-year-old Dutch woman sustained slight face and neck burns after her mobile phone burst into flames, the Amsterdam police said Thursday.

Secretary of State Colin Powell is asking top U.N. officials to push for a new Security Council resolution designed to encourage more countries to send troops to help secure Iraq, a U.S. official said today.

North Korea accused the United States of plotting to scupper next week's six-nation nuclear crisis talks in an attempt to force settlement of the stand-off at the United Nations.

Investigators pressed their probe into the deadly truck bombing that devastated the United Nations' Baghdad headquarters as UN and US officials traded blame for the teetering security situation in the Iraqi capital.