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After days of deadlock and dispute, Syrian peace talks appeared to inch forward when a spokesman ...
In experiments that could open a new era in stem cell biology, scientists have found a simple way ...
Egypt has intensified its media crackdown, charging 20 journalists from al-Jazeera, including one ...
Former Norwegian minister nominates the fugitive US whistleblower for one of humanity's top prizes.
More than 40 people killed days after a landmark peace deal was struck with the largest Muslim ...
Libya's deputy prime minister survived unhurt after gunmen fired on his car in Tripoli in an attack ...
New York Representative Michael Grimm is defending his actions after he physically threatened a ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken perhaps her sharpest swipe yet at pervasive US intelligence ...
A wild tiger is believed to have claimed its eighth victim in northern India, even as forest ...
After all the talk of terror threats, corruption, overspending and anti-gay legislation, the head ...
News Corporation’s denial that it hacked supermodel Elle Macpherson's phone before 2006 has already ...
Andy Coulson listened to a hacked voicemail that revealed two leading actors were having an affair ...
Egypt's military-backed government put the deposed President Mohamed Mursi in a specially designed ...
The government once produced the drug. Entrepreneurs have since set up their own labs and may be ...
India's top court has rejected a plea filed by the government and activist groups to review its ...
"Low blows", "back-stabbing" and "betrayals" at the Elysee Palace hastened the demise of her ...
Former Bosnian Serb army leader Ratko Mladic lashed out at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on ...
With lethal-injection drugs in short supply, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering ...
Ukraine's prime minister quit to help end more than two months of street protests as parliament ...
Hopes have faded for a small victory at peace talks between Syria's warring factions, after the ...
Thailand's besieged government has decided to push ahead with controversial elections on Sunday ...
A judge has ordered a nun and two other Catholic peace activists to pay full restitution of nearly ...
The absolute monarchies of the Gulf are betting that their money can help build a stable Egypt run ...
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden tells a German TV program that US officials used NSA ...
An hour ago Kiev, Ukraine: Viktor F. Yanukovych, the president of Ukraine, went on sick leave on Thursday, ...
Experimental trial using small amounts of peanut flour helps 80 per cent of children safely eat a ...
American Amanda Knox's defence lawyer said her innocence was "rock-solid" on Thursday, as an ...
An hour ago US actress Scarlett Johansson has quit as global ambassador for Oxfam after the aid group deemed ...
Rob Ford is being sued by his sister's former common-law husband, who alleges that the Toronto ...
An American weatherman has been forced to make an apology after his wrong forecast left thousands ...
What made Google dig so deep to buy out a shy and secretive computer mastermind from north London?
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has floated the possibility of having a referendum to change ...
The lesbian daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon, who offered more than $US100 million ($114.29 million) ...
In a case that could change the face of domestic law enforcement, a US citizen has been sentenced ...
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President Vladimir Putin raised the pressure on Ukraine on Wednesday, saying Russia would wait ...
Revelations that the National Security Agency is tapping smartphone applications to mine personal ...
South Africa's main opposition party chooses Mamphela Ramphele as its first black presidential ...
People who experience social situations from a lower height - in other words, short people - are ...
Atlanta: Students camped out with teachers in school gyms or on buses and commuters abandoned cars ...
Ukraine is on the brink of "civil war" as a result of the standoff between authorities and ...
British detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have flown to Portugal ...
Cairo: He is just one man swept up in a tidal wave of thousands of arrests in Egypt, but for ...
US President Barack Obama has challenged Congress to work with him to reduce growing inequality, ...