With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local...

The US Senate has adopted a draft bill to increase unemployment...

The BBC has reported that a man who has been subjected to claims he is the killer of James Bulger, has asked for the UK government to reveal who the real murderer...

Two UK women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father have received an apology from 28 different public...

Federal prosecutors in the US have charged the owner of a California restaurant over alleged sales of whale meat, which was labelled...

A young actor who became a teen idol during his time as a Hollywood star, has died of unknown...

Politicians and police authorities in Ukraine are investigating the airline industry after an incident on the main...

The main airport in Bangkok has been locked down by soldiers as the Thai capital prepares for anti-government...

Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital,...

In Myanmar, a new law may force the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, out of the...

Bangladesh has been accused of starving and blocking medical treatment for Rohingya...

When Isoke Aikpitanyi left Nigeria in search of a new life in 2000, she thought she was going to work as a fruit vendor in a market in...

Last month's magnitude-8.8 earthquake in Chile cost insurance companies between 2.92 billion euros ($4 billion) and 5.15 billion euros ($7 billion), an insurance firm...

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has declared the 82 stelae of the Temple of Literature in Vietnam as a World Heritage Site, Prensa Latina...

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) will set up a committee to help restore the Haitian cultural heritage damaged in a devastating earthquake in the Caribbean...

North Korean dictators Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il had placed special agents across Europe for shopping sprees which included buying, luxury carpets, gold-plated guns, small Cessna planes and high-priced foreign cars such as Mercedes-Benz and Lincolns, according to the memoir of former Army Col. Kim...

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has banned two of its world-class batsmen, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf, from playing international cricket for life and barred former captain Shoaib Malik and medium-pacer Rana Naveed-ul-Hassan for one year for 'unbecoming behaviour' leading to Pakistan's poor showing recently in...

One-ninth of Nepal's nearly 27 million population face starvation, the UN warned...

India's identification with the United States has clear limits and it will resist any notion that it can be used as an instrument of US policy or as a counterweight to China, says leading international strategic expert, Mr. Adam...

Despite a forgettable show in the ongoing Hockey World Cup, Pakistan's star drag flicker Sohail Abbas has said he has no plans to hang his boots in the near...

The drop in performance of British tennis players at international events has shocked three-time Wimbledon winner Boris Becker, who said players and poor coaching are to blame for...

Manchester United striker Michael Owen has been told that his England career is not over, despite being ruled out of the World Cup with...

US Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east...

The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar...

China has been given direct access to the Sea of Japan for the first time since the 19th century, thanks to a lease deal with North...

A former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television...

Top prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting...

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In this photo released by Taronga Zoo, a young male Asian elephant calf born at 3:27 a.m. on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, is treated by zoo vets as his mother Porntip looks on at Taronga Zoo in Sydney,...

A member, left, of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party sells a portrait of the detained leader to a woman at the party's headquarters...

SINGAPORE -- The United States, fearful of being sidelined as China and other fast-growing Asian economies speed up their integration, is banking on a new trade pact to shore up its Pacific...

MEXICO CITY - Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, jumping past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the first person from a developing nation to top the...

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Asian billionaires including India’s Mukesh Ambani and Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing increased their wealth as the region’s rich expanded their fortunes at the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40...

Australian actress Mia Wasikowska, who plays the heroine in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, says she won't consider changing her complicated Polish last...

A Mexican billionaire has been ranked as the richest person in the world, the first time the title has been held by a non-American for 16 years. Telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim Helu saw off Microsoft...

Lawyers acting for a former Bosnian president who was arrested at Heathrow over war crime allegations will return to the High Court in a bid to secure him bail. Ejup Ganic, 64, a friend of Baroness...

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — One of the billboards at Doral promotes this World Golf Championship with a familiar slogan and some familiar faces, a photo sequence of five players under the phrase, "The...

Lawyer kept internal documents that he says could be damaging to Toyota Biller says he quit because of what he alleges were "criminal acts" by Toyota He said Toyota settled one lawsuit to...

Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) -- Myanmar's ruling junta announced Wednesday a new election law that disqualifies pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in upcoming national...

(CNN) -- A Texas man who became enraged when a flight attendant refused to serve him alcohol and spent part of a flight locked in the lavatory has pleaded guilty to interfering with an airline flight...

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Global currency trading rose to $2.7 trillion a day between April and October, the first growth since the six months to April 2008, the Reserve Bank of Australia said, citing...

A longtime protester from Shanghai has been ordered by the authorities to serve one and a half years of “re-education through labor” for shouting slogans about human rights outside a...

Silvio Berlusconi , left, and his cabinet from the results of trials that are currently under way, on the grounds that the trials would impede their ability to govern. Mr. Berlusconi’s cabinet...

China ’s troubled Xinjiang Province, risking further worsening his fraught relations with Beijing. In an address in Dharamsala, India, observing 51 years since he fled Tibet after a failed...

In a coordinated crackdown, American and Italian authorities arrested 25 men in Sicily, New York, North Carolina and Florida on Wednesday and charged them with taking part in a range of criminal...

THE British Government is locked in a battle with the media for refusing to say why a notorious child killer has been sent back to jail, amid warnings he faces a "lynch mob'' if his...

EDUCATION officials in Mississippi cancelled a high school prom after a lesbian student launched a public battle to bring her girlfriend, The Clarion Ledger...

CARLA Bruni, the singer wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has vouched for the fidelity of her husband after some media outlets reported internet gossip suggesting that their marriage was in...

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