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A retired British couple are freed more than a year after being taken captive by Somali pirates who boarded their yacht off the Seychelles.

Several people jumped out of windows to escape the blaze in Dijon Seven people have been killed and 11 seriously injured by a fire in a nin...

Nicaragua says its troops will not withdraw The Organization of American States has urged Nicaragua and Costa Rica to withdraw their securi...

Israel's 10-month construction freeze in the West Bank expired on 26 September Israel's prime minister has briefed his cabinet on ...

The Republic of Ireland's government has not formally denied it is in talks with the EU The Republic of Ireland is in preliminary talks...

Through the present Call for Missions the Director of Science and Robotic Exploration solicits from the broad scientific community proposals...

Establishing if life ever existed on Mars is one of the outstanding scientific questions of our time. To address this important goal, the Eu...

The idea of other planets hidden in the vastness of space has long captured human imagination and there has been a recent explosion in the n...

As of March 22 we are no longer collecting names for IKAROS, however you can still send your name and message on the LightSail mission. A p...

The Moon, showing part of its far side, photographed from the Apollo 16 spacecraft in April 1972 The Ea...

An artist's impression of what the dinosaurs might have looked like Palaeontologists have identifie...

Tweeters have joined forces to support Paul Chambers, the man convicted and fined for a Twitter message threatening to blow up an airport. ...

Coppola has produced more than 30 films, including The Black Stallion, The Outsiders and Lost in Translation

Retired UK couple Paul and Rachel Chandler, hours after being released A retired British couple have ...

Ms Suu Kyi said her party was investigating allegations of fraud in the elections Burma's pro-democra...

The Globalist is a daily online magazine about the global economy, politics, and culture. Amidst all the hype surrounding its Asian counte...

DUBAI: Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula denied on Sunday it would stage any action to coincide with the Muslim haj pilgrima...

LONDON: Britain will run out of internet addresses by 2012, warns a web scientist. Vint Cerf, a Google vice-president, said the "unbel...

YANGON, MYANMAR: Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, freed from seven years of house arrest, told thousands of cheering supporters...

Obama also missed his goal of reaching agreement with longtime ally South Korea on a new free-trade pact. Photo / AP Obama also missed his ...

SYDNEY: An Airbus executive says Rolls-Royce has identified a faulty bearing box as the cause of the oil leak problem implicated in the mida...

Burma's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walked free last night from the lakeside home that has been her prison for most of the past tw...

Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- An Indonesian volcano has killed 240 people since it started erupting in October, officials said Saturday, a da...

APEC summit begins Japan's prime minister thanks Barack Obama for support with territorial disputes Japan stresses the need for U.S. h...

Aung San Suu Kyi release Obama praises courage of the Nobel Peace laureate Thousands gathered outside her party headquarters in Yangon Sh...

Newly arrived Somali refugees stand outside the UNHCR registration centre at the Ifo camp in Dadaab, Kenya, on September 9. STORY HIGHLIGHT...

Currency 'wars' dominate G20 summit I always cringe when I read references to 'war' in the sports pages...

Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 became the best-selling record by a contemporary composer Polish composer Henryk Gorecki has died at the...

Leaders of the G20 group of major economies have agreed to avoid "competitive devaluation" of currencies after talks concluded in ...

  Rights groups say the blasphemy law is often exploited by Islamist extremists or people harbouring personal grudges. Relatives of a...

Mr Maliki (left) has a month to persuade Mr Allawi (right) to join his new administration US President Barack Obama has said the new p...

The alleged operations took place in 2008 EU prosecutors have accused seven people, including doctors and a health official, of tr...

Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained for 15 of the past 21 years Reports are coming out of Burma saying the military authorities have signed ...

The weapons had been hidden in containers labelled as building materials Iran has allowed Nigeria to interview an Iranian citizen ins...

British Gas customers will face a 7% rise in gas and electricity bills this winter, the company has announced.The increase, which comes into...

The UN has appealed for nearly $164m (£102m) to fight a cholera outbreak in Haiti which has now claimed 724 lives. UN spokeswoman E...

Iceland has joined other Nordic countries launching an investigation into a controversial United States embassy surveillance programme.

Iraq's President gave Shia Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the nod to form the next Government yesterday aft...

Myanmar activists hold a portrait of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest against their home country's election in Tok...

A South Korean spy plane crashed Friday during routine training and its two pilots were killed in the second military accident to strike the...

Members of Burma's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy hold her portraits as they gather at ...

U.S. deficit plan pitches drastic cuts A commission set up by U.S. President Barack Obama is proposing an aus...

Technicians work on the Qantas Airways A380 passenger plane forced to make an emergency landing at Changi airport in Singapore on Nov. 4. (...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper waves with his Spanish counterpart Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, top, and China's President Hu Jintao duri...

Canadian troops will remain in Afghanistan in a non-combat role after 2011, helping to train and support the Afghan army, the prime minister...

G-20 refuses to back US push on China's currency (AP) Setbacks aside, Ob...

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