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Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appear at a campaign rally in Las Vegas Photo: AP ...

Barack Obama's Indian delegation has booked the entire Taj Mahal hotel Photo: ALAMY ...

Barack Obama and Michelle shortly after he was elected US President Photo: Getty Why have American voters gone so sour on Barack Obama...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets with elders after a conference on rural development. Photo: GETTY Mr Karzai said that the "bags of...

By Jon D. Markman , Contributing Writer , Money Morning While many investors have solid reas...

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  On Saturday Katy Perry and Russell Brand celebrated their nuptials in front of 80 of their closest friends and family members, but Katy...

Harpo Productions via AP In this photo taken Oct. 9 in Los Angeles, Katherine Jackson, right, mother of the late music icon Michael Jackson,...

It's a land of daunting mountains, crisscrossed with rugged paths. Tucked in the valleys, families live a subsistence existence in mud h...

Merapi alert status: (Antara//Wahyu Putro )The status of Mount Merapi was raised to alert on Monday following increasing volcanic earthquake...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea sent its first shipment of rice aid to rival North Korea in more than two years on Monday and said it would co...

SLEMAN, Indonesia (Reuters) - Authorities will evacuate more than 11,000 villagers living on the slopes of the Mount Merapi volcano near Yog...

MANILA, Philippines- It seems like actress-host Kris Aquino is not heeding the love advice of her eldest sister, Ballsy Aquino-Cruz. Ballsy...

At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq ...

Peter Bossman receives a kiss from his wife Karmena after the second round of local elections in Lucija. Bossman, a doctor from Ghana, was ...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - Slovenia elected its first black mayor on Sunday, an immigrant from Africa known as the "Obama of Piran," th...

RAMALLAH/GAZA, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- A senior Fatah official said Sunday that the second round of meeting for reaching an inter- Palestinian r...

Israeli PM warns Palestinians over "unilateral action" threats Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday told governme...

By Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent GYEONGJU, South Korea | Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:08am EDT GYEONGJU, South Kore...

Singapore wants to strengthen its position as a financial centre The Singapore stock exchange (SGX) has unveiled a multi-billion doll...

RAROTONGA: Beautiful beaches, but plenty to do on dry land as well. There are two bus routes on Rarotonga: "clockwise" and ...

Australia's Lote Tuqiri, right, and Papua New Guinea's Elijah Riyong contest a high ball on Australia's try line during their Fo...

WASHINGTON, AFP - The United States said Friday that it has "great concern" about the situation in Kashmir but indicated it would ...

At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq ...

4 Taliban suicide bombers attacked the UN compound in western Afghanistan on Saturday but there were no casualties among the staff.

The BBC's Will Ross in Nairobi: "A lot of people were trying to get into the stadium at the same time" ...

The BBC's Will Ross in Nairobi: "A lot of people were trying to get into the stadium at the same time" Seven people ha...

Aisha Bain, International Rescue Five cases of cholera have been detected in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, the UN says, amid an outbr...

She's one of the hottest acts around, and on Friday night (October 22) Nicki Minaj was busy treating her fans to an energetic perfo...

Bringing an end to the week with another day of dancing duties, Audrina Patridge was spotted looking toned and healthy in Beverly Hills...

While she's surely happy to have avoided more time behind bars, Lindsay Lohan is having a tough time figuring out how she'll af...

Having made the trip back home from Vancouver the previous evening, Ashley Tisdale was up and about early on Saturday morning (October ...

Getting into the holiday spirit, Amanda Seyfried was busy seeking out the perfect pumpkin at Moe's Flowers in West Hollywood on Fri...

Getting the weekend underway, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian were spotted out and about in SoHo, New York on Saturday morning (October 2...

While they've been rumored to be in the planning stages for their own nuptials, Prince William and Kate Middleton stepped out as ...

Which Twin Is the Smoker? Maybe there is no fountain of youth, but there is a surefire way to make yourself look older . Smoking changes th...

By Keith Fitz-Gerald , Chief Investment Strategist , Money Morning Record gold prices a...

Health insurers help GOP after dalliance with Dems (AP) WikiLeaks near relea...

# 12,500 runners are set to take part in the Oct. 31 race in Greece. By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press Writer AP Photo/Petros Giannak...

The 2010 Athens Classic Marathon commemorates the 2500th anniversary of Phiedippides' 40 km (25 mile) run from the battle field of Marat...

An event at the Capitol in Washington DC, entitled “Marathon : 2500 years later”, is co-organized today, Friday, by SAE USA Region, the Hell...

Events marking the 2,500th anniversary since the Battle of Marathon - a battle whose outcome is regarded as having changed the course of Eur...

GENEVA, Switzerland - Physicists probing the origins of the cosmos hope that next year they will turn up the first proofs of the existence o...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and China should focus on the big picture and avoid tit-for-tat recriminations, Japan's chief cabinet secreta...

AFP/File – A Pakistani soldier stands beside a mosque destroyed in a suicide car bomb attack on the outskirts of … By RIAZ KHAN and MUNIR...

The BBC's Christian Fraser said riot police had "wrestled back control" of the refinery as they clashed with protesters Clashe...

The death toll from severe flooding in central Vietnam has climbed to 75, including 14 victims from a bus swept off the road by strong curr...

Trade unions condemn the intervention by police at a refinery at Grandpuit, 30 miles fr...

Trade unions condemn the intervention by police at a refinery at Grandpuit, 30 miles from Paris, and vow to continue industrial action over ...

Pakistani army soldiers patrol a street in Miranshah, the main North Waziristan town along the Pakistan Photo: AFP/GETTY The aid cuts are ...

  A file photograph shows Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak during his meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri (unseen) in Cairo,...

  PORT-AU-PRINCE: A cholera epidemic in northern Haiti has claimed 135 lives and infected 1,500 people over the last few days, Claude Sure...

AP-GfK Poll: Americans split on health care repeal (AP) AP sources: US to up...

A very large investment fund, created by a number of important banks for the sole purpose of providing loans to small businesses, may be on ...