Fireworks shows and street parties across the globe herald 2010.

Taliban claims responsibility for attack while five Canadians die in separate incident.

A modern day Romeo and Juliet love story in Gaza proved that while the region’s isolation and concurrent hardships do destroy lives, it does not destroy love, which survives whatever the cost.

While many people celebrate New Years Eve with family and friends, there are those for whom the holiday is not that merry. There are almost three million homeless in Russia - making up 2% of the country’s population.

In a small Indian town where the holiest temple for Buddhists was erected on the very spot where the Buddha gained enlightenment, with tens of thousands of pilgrims visiting every day, fake monks are becoming routine.

Russian engineers have a long history of building ships capable of reaching frozen lands by sea through any amount of ice, but you do not have to travel far to experience a ride on an icebreaker – in Moscow.

KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii (AP) — President Barack Obama went golfing on New Year’s Eve. The president hit the links at Mid-Pacific Country Club in the same Honolulu suburb of Kailua where he’s renting a beachfront home for the holidays….

HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. security chiefs briefed President Barack Obama on Thursday about missteps in the lead-up to the attempted Detroit jetliner bombing as lawmakers joined the White House in racing to find out what went wrong….

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007….

WASHINGTON (AP) — The bank account is thin, but the future looks pretty good. That, oddly enough, is the view of many Americans who predict 2010 will be a better year than this one, even if they fear that the U.S. economy and their own financial circumstances won’t improve….