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If you own a business and have claimed your free business listing in Google Places, which then appear on Google and Google Maps, then you wi...

EU flags reflected in glass walls of EU headquarters in Brussels. Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images Davi...

Barack Obama and Jon Stewart during Obama's appearance on The Daily Show in Washington DC. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP 9...

MI6 chief Sir John Sawers today. Photograph: Toby Melville/PA The Times published a reader's letter earlier this year. It read: "S...

A Bahraini woman walks past election campaign billboards near Manama. Photograph: Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images I...

Dmitry Medvedev, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel at this month's tripartite summit between France, Germany and Russia. Phot...

Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA Iran began loading fuel into the core ...

Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qassimi, left, the late ruler of Ras al-Khaimah, with his son Sheikh Khalid. Photograph: Nasser Younes...

The French finance minister, Christine Lagarde, said the protest movement had reached a 'turning point'. Photograph: Bloo...

A team of policewomen patrol the streets of Zhengzhou in central China's Henan province. They are part of a special squad of ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says country's leaders are anti-democratic. Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP ...

The crime scene in Tepic, Mexico, where 15 people were killed by hitmen. Photograph: Nayarit En L Nea/EPA Suspected ...

Rescuers are continuing to look for survivors on Indonesia...

The former Rwandan hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, pictured with his wife Tatiana in 2005, denies sending money to allegedly fun...

Geir Lundestad of the Nobel committee. China 's decision to jail dissident Liu Xiaobo for 11 years convinced the N...

Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero speaks during a press conference in Madrid. Photograph: Daniel Ochoa De Olza/AP ...

Faith under fire … a sea of candles laid by mourners outside the presidential palace following the Smolensk crash. Photograph: Sean Gallup/G...

The tsunami caused by the earthquake washed away hundreds of wooden and bamboo homes, killing over 100 people and displacing 20,0...

Jimmy Mubenga died after being 'heavily restrained' for a deportation flight to Angola. The government's deportation...

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By Kerri Shannon , Associate Editor , Money Morning A potentially crippling crisis is flashi...

Fears hundreds more dead in Indonesia tsunami (AP) Wild storm leaves behind ...

Small business economic confidence rebounded in October as more small business owners report economic conditions for their businesses and fo...

The 2010 ICI Meeting is a continuation of the series of international conferences in interventional cardiology held in Israel since 1995, wh...

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chilean President Sebastian Pinera listen to their national anthems during the welcoming ceremony in B...

Jeremy Ractliffe and Naomi Campbell Jeremy Ractliffe , 74, head of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund between 1995 and 1999,...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Israeli naval commandos who participated in the raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla last May Photo: AFP ...

ohn Key, the New Zealand prime minister, said the government had agreed to increased financial incentives for the $500-million (£315 million...

  Iraqi Deputy Premier Tareq Aziz passes a poster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein at the end of a press conference in Baghdad 24 November ...

The National Assembly voted 336 for and 233 against the final draft of the law, which will increase France's minimum retirement ag...

Royal Dutch Shell has radically simplified the design of the Kashagan oil development, slashing $18bn (£11.5bn) from the cost of the seco...

Wuer Kaixi, the former Chinese student leader, will represent Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned dissident, at a meeting of Nobel Peace ...

  Americans who embraced 'hope and change' two years ago are now rejecting the change they were given Photo: REUTERS "Both Pre...

Supporters of Rand Paul, a Tea Party backed politician, stomped on the head of a liberal activist during a debate between senate candidat...

Heads of government are expected to endorse a new blueprint for the nine-year war Photo: REUTERS Mr Gorba...

Protestors took to the streets of New Zealand earlier this week Two movies based on The Hobbit will be filmed in New Zealand as plan...

Virgin Media is set to turn up the dial on its cable network, offering users speeds of up to 100Mbps (megabits per second). It aims...

Some 13% of birds qualify for inclusion on the Red List One fifth of animal and plant species are under the threat of extinction, ...

The risk goes up the taller the man Taller men may have a higher risk of getting testicular cancer, say experts in the United Stat...

Sales of new homes remain subdued thanks to a glut of repossessed houses on the market Sales of new homes in the US rose 6.6% in Sept...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has told the BBC the US should do more to reduce the demand for drugs that is fuelling violence in Mexico....

At least 60 people have been killed after part of a building collapsed on guests at a wedding in northern Afghanistan, officials say.

Israeli police have clashed with Arab demonstrators in the northern town of Umm al-Fahm, where Israeli right-wing activists staged a protest...

Students protested in Paris on Tuesday but numbers were down France's National Assembly has voted to raise pension age by two ...

The death toll from a tsunami in western Indonesia rises to 272, officials say, as doubts emerge about whether an early warning system was ...

South Africa's Cape Town Opera has turned down an appeal from Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu to call off a tour of Isr...

The UK airline industry has backed British Airways chairman Martin Broughton's call for changes to airport security checks.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has told the BBC the US should do more to reduce the demand for drugs that is fuelling violence in Mexico....

VALE, N.C. – Fierce winds demolished three homes and injured 11 people in North Carolina and tornado watches were issued across the Southea...

DILI (AFP) – A jade elephant rears majestically in the corner as patrons tuck into their burgers and fries at one of only three US-style fas...

TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto voters on Monday elected conservative Rob Ford as mayor of Canada's biggest city, tilting away from their re...

AFP – In a handout photograph released by the Vice President's Office, Indonesian Vice President Boediono … by Bayu Ismoyo Bayu Ism...

AP – In this file photo taken Thursday, July 8, 2010 Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula is se...

AP – FILE - This image made from video broadcast on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001 shows Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed … By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF, Ass...

AP – FILE - In this June 22, 2009 file photo, Argentina's former president Nestor Kirchner gestures at a campaign … By MICHAEL WARREN, ...

Compugen 2010 third quarter net loss decreases to $1.6 million from $1.9 million Genmab begins Phase III head to head study of ofatumumab vs...