Deadly methane gas emanating from a dairy farm’s manure pit killed five people, including four members of a Mennonite family, authorities said.

Shooting broke out at a radical mosque in Pakistan’s capital Tuesday after militant students clashed with security forces deployed to contain their activities.

A bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion on a vehicle in Scotland Tuesday, a day after at least three physicians — including an Iraqi, an Indian and a Palestinian — were identified as suspects in a series of failed car bomb attacks.

North Korea has agreed to “containment and surveillance” measures by International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to verify a shutdown of its nuclear arms program, an IAEA report said on Tuesday.

The next terrorist assault on the United States is likely to come through relatively unsophisticated, near-simultaneous attacks — similar to those attempted in Britain over the weekend — designed more to provoke widespread fear and panic than to cause major losses of life, U.S. intelligence officials believe.

In a bid to keep up with its competition, Yahoo yesterday launched a system to let marketers tailor advertising content to individual users, theoretically making the ads more effective and, therefore, more lucrative for Yahoo.

A cutting-edge title takes many years and millions of dollars to develop in the competitive game industry. That’s why game designers, like movie studios, have learned to lavishly court tastemakers, the guys who write for the major blogs and magazines and play a key role in today’s big-bucks video game industry.

Japan’s embattled defense minister resigned Tuesday over his comments suggesting the 1945 atomic bombings Hiroshima and Nagasaki were inevitable.

A naturally formed stalagmite in a Kashmiri mountain shrine has melted away, officials said Monday, blaming body heat from the hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims who visit each year.

Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, said her manager, Edgar Vincent.