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US warns Americans to be vigilant when in Europe (AP) Pakistan: Dozens of ...

Catherine Zeta-Jones says husband Michael Douglas is "doing very well" in his fight against cancer .

Berlin - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, who lifted the lid on his country's perilous public finances, is to be honoured with Ge...

BEIJING: When the police came for Liu Xiaobo on a December night nearly two years ago, they didn't tell the dissident author why he was ...

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is considering telling US citizens to be vigilant as they travel in Europe, updated guidance prompted b...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf , who in 1999 overthrew the government of Nawaz Sharif, believes the two-t...

NEW DELHI: It was both cheers and jeers for Suresh Kalmadi , the chairman of the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games, when he ma...

NEW DELHI: India today put behind a nightmarish build-up of scandals, filth and dirt and missed deadlines to come up with a dazzling and v...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. State Department on Sunday issued a travel alert to Americans over potential terrorist attacks in Europe...

CAIRO, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and U.S. Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell discussed on Sunday efforts to s...

TEHRAN, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on foreign powers to leave Middle East region before being expelled ...

ATHENS, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday pledged to support a stable euro and strengthen cooperation with the Europe...

TEHRAN, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday renewed a call for a probe into the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks...

Brazil's ruling Workers' Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff poses for a photo after casting her vote at a polling station i...

JERUSALEM, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- The latest round of the U.S.- sponsored direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians were stumbling ...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivers a speech at the Greek parliament in Athens on Oct. 3, 2010. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin) ATHENS, Oct. 3 (Xinhua)...

BEIJING, Oct. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- As Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao continues his three-day official visit to Greece, the two nations have clinched...

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say an 81-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder for allegedly beating to death his 9...

Photo: AP Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, smiles as Workers Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff ge...

Britain on Sunday warned of the "high" threat of terrorism for its nationals in France and Germany, hours after the United States ...

Photo: AP German chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of Germany's reunification in B...

Pakistanis push trade, not just aid, after floods (AP) Brazil to pick succes...

HTML clipboard Argos' AGS-003 in combination with sunitinib demonstrates favorable PFS for renal cell carcinoma 1. October 20...

Image courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/L. Pagani (Observatoire de Paris/CNRS) Starlight bounces off a normally dark, interstellar core cloud (cent...

  Image courtesy NASA/JPL/University of Leicester/University of ArizonaHundreds of miles tall, curtains of aurorae undulate above Saturn...

SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson on Saturday announced plans to build five new temples in the United States and abr...

SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson on Saturday announced plans to build five new temples in the United States and abr...

Mihilani Teixeira, who was crowned Miss Polynesia last week, left Tahiti Friday. read more...

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New Delhi: Norfolk Island, a small nation in the Pacific Ocean, on Monday became the first Commonwealth country to hoist its flag at the Ga...

A nation under one umbrella, one of the major themes shown by students of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial School during the Mahatma Fiji Day celebra...

President Barack Obama has signed into law a measure that delays the scheduled 50-cent minimum wage increase in the CNMI in 2011, a proposa...

On the second day of the CNMI government's partial shutdown, the 17th Legislature is almost back to square one on the $132 million budge...

Two student-athletes read the closure notice at the south entrance of the Oleai Sports Complex, which was locked beginning yesterday due...

A U.S. organization supporting nonreligious student groups reports a growing number of such groups on campuses at the start of the fall 201...

The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting, but at only half the rate previously predicted, according to a team of U.S. and Du...

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- A soldier of the Pakistani Army set up a Guinness world record on Wednesday by planting maximum plants in a ...

Venezuela has held an election to form a new legislature. A total of 165 seats in the National Assembly were up for grabs in Sunday's po...

NEW DELHI, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- India Saturday marked the 141st birth anniversary of its Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, with political ...

Security personnel check the car bomb blast site in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, Oct. 1, 2010. At least 14 people were killed as Nigeria...

Passengers check in at the Continental Airlines counter in O'Hare International airport in Chicago, the United States on Oct. 1, 2010. ...

ABUJA, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria celebrated on Friday the 50th anniversary of independence as the pageant was overshadowed by a deadly twin...

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani told the parliament on Friday that Pakistan will consider othe...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday extended his apology for purposely infecting Guatemalans with sexually ...

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) applauds outgoing White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (L), while Obama's new interim chief of st...

An Ecuadorian military soldier stands guard outside the Palacio de Carondelet in Quito, capital of Ecuador, Oct. 1, 2010. Order had apparent...

Ecuadorean troops firing automatic weapons and concussion grenades rescued President Correa from a hospital where he was trapped most of th...

The US Senate has confirmed the appointment of Cameron Munter as next US Ambassador to Pakistan.

If the current rate of progress in the field of hunting exoplanets is any indication, then the world will be presented the first Earth-like...

Scientists have discovered 450 extrasolar planets to date and recently identified potentially 750 new ones. Samuel Arbesman, a computational...

The logic is simple. Extrasolar planets orbit faraway stars. Star clusters are home to lots and lots of stars. So where better to look for...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a planet with about three times the Earth’s mass orbiting the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 581....

By Carmel Crimmins DUBLIN | Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:35pm BST DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland disclosed a "horrendous...

And they're out! Congress flees DC to campaign (AP) Economy loses speed i...

What better way to remember Tony Curtis (who died last night at the age of 85 ) than by looking back on some of his best moments on screen?...

By Padraic Halpin and Andras Gergely DUBLIN | Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:52pm BST DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland, warning its recession-weary people ...

Tour de France champion Alberto Contador speaks during a press conference at his hometown of Pinto, near Madrid September 30, 2010. Credit:...

A Hindu priest shouts slogans as he celebrates after hearing the first reports of a court ruling in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya Sept...

  Tony Curtis, a classically handsome movie star who earned an Oscar nomination as an escaped convict in Stanley Kramer ’s 1958 movie “The D...

The actor, who died following a heart attack at his Nevada home on Wednesday, had made more than 140 films over 60 years. However, he wa...

Key moments from Tony Curtis' film career Hollywood star Tony Curtis has died of a cardiac arrest at his US home in Nevada aged 85.

By Bappa Majumdar AYODHYA, India | Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:00am BST AYODHYA, India (Reuters) - More than 200,000 police fanned out across India...

The Cook Islands beat Tahiti 1-0 at North Harbour Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. Young striker Regina Mustonen was the hero for the Cook...

Tahitian public services will face some important changes in the years to come, French Polynesia President Gaston Tong Sang announced. Duri...

MV 'Otuanga'ofa sails from Tokyo. Photo courtesy ISB Co. Ltd. TONGA'S new inter island ferry the MV 'Otuanga'ofa left J...

TONGA'S Christchurch Earthquake Appeal fund has collected $839,957 pa'anga to date with more cash donations expected to be raised in...

US slaughter intensifies in Afghanistan The US military claimed responsibility for killing scores of insurgents over the week...

Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, addresses a reception in Bei...

A model presents a creation by Portuguese designer Fatima Lopes as part of her Spring/Summer 2011 women's ready-to-wear fashion collecti...

SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's defense ministry said Wednesday the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed to...

XICHANG, Sichuan, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- China will launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e II, at an appropriate time between Oct. 1 and 3...

SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) ended Thursday their first working-level mi...

U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Sander M. Levin (front) speaks to the media after passing the bill in Washington, the United...

A replica of a North Korean Scud-B missile (R) together with a South Korean missile are displayed at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul....

Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador of Spain, pictured in July 2010, was suspended Thursday after failing a dope test, in the ...

A Chinese bank worker counts US dollar banknotes alongside stacks of 100-yuan notes. China said Thursday a bill passed by US lawmakers that ...

An undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency via the Korea News Service shows North Korean leader ...

Gen Anupong Paojinda bids farewell to military life today without any true sense of achievement. Anupong: Faced demanding job His tenure a...

This file photo taken on May 28, 2009 shows Sarath Fonseka (C) attending a parade ceremony. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has e...

JERUSALEM, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is outraged over statements made by Foreign Minister Avigdor Liebe...

A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has been spotted coming close to Earth, the British paper, Daily Mail, reported in its online edi...

The Time Has Arrived: Is Rebellion At Hand? The countdown clock and the last chance for “The Founder’s Legacy” of patriotic Ameri...