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Hundreds of actors, directors, screenwriters and other film industry workers invaded the red carpet Actr...

There is a shortage of organs for transplant Scientists have managed to produce a small-scale version of a human liver in the labora...

Mr Karzai said Afghanistan's relationship with Russia had to be based on mutual consent Afghan President Hamid Karzai has criticised ...

Rio Gallegos is mourning its most celebrated son Former Arge...

David Cameron: ''We protected the UK taxpayer" EU leaders say tough new budget rules agreed at their summit in Brussels will pr...

Rare earth metals come from China - they are vital for production of a range of electronic items China has reassured the US it has no...

The printer found in Dubai had a circuit board linked to a mobile phone card Prime Minister David Cameron says the device in a packag...

Violence between the two communities flared up in March this year Community leaders in Nigeria's Plateau State are appealing for ...

Arrest in Yemen in bomb plot; more suspects sought (AP) Experts: Passenger p...

The Battle of Marathon ( Greek : Μάχη τοῦ Μαραθῶνος , Machē tou Marathōnos ) took place in 490 BC, or 2.500 years ago, during the first Per...

Barack Obama: The oligarchs' president The director of "Inside Job" writes about Obama's depressingly rational ...

MOSCOW – Famished bears in northern Russia have resorted to digging up graves in cemeteries - and reportedly eating at least one body - afte...

US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton (pic) left yesterday on a two-week Asia trip to pursue what an aide called "cool-headed, construc...

A protester prepares to throw a stone towards Israeli riot police during clashes in Umm el-Fahm yesterday. Israeli police fired tear gas an...

28 Oct 10 - WAR-torn Somalia is perceived as the most corrupt country in the world War-torn states are still seen as being the mo...

A BUS carrying French tourists slammed into a car on Thursday, killing six French citizens and the car's driver, an official said. Eight...

VLADIMIR Putin, who has carved out a health nut image by wrestling with tigers or judo opponents, raised eyebrows yesterday as he was pictur...

The Inuvik Mosque after completion in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada. The small mosque arrived in the Arctic to serve a gr...

29 Oct 10 - HUNDREDS of tonnes of festering trash lying uncollected in the streets of Naples will be cleaned up "within three days...

PANAMA suspended free trade talks with Colombia after bargaining stalled ahead of a Friday deadline, even though much of the pact was comple...

Pakistani Interior Minister, Rehman Malik exchanges documents with visiting British Home Secretary, Theresa May, at a signing ceremony in I...

  Asian Muslim women chat after praying inside the women's prayer hall of the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Azhar is one of Cairo...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday he was still focused on a return to direct peace talks with Israel but looking at alter...

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton (L) arrives with Japanese Foreign Minister, Seiji Maehara, for a press conference in Honolulu, Hawaii...

Chinese President Hu Jintao (L), his wife Liu Yongqing (2nd L), French President Nicolas Sarkozy (3rd R) and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (...

LimeWire has been shut down by a US court who found that the service had been used to infringe copyright on a huge scale The ruling follows...

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...