LONDON- Britain's News of the World tabloid on Sunday publicly apologised to victims of phone hacking, as the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper sought to draw a line under the scandal.
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SANAA- Yemen has recalled its ambassador to Qatar, state news agency Saba announced on Saturday, after the Gulf state's call for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down stirred anger in Sanaa....
DAMASCUS- Syrian security forces shot at protesters in Daraa on Saturday, an activist said, as a huge crowd buried the dead from a bloody crackdown on anti-regime demonstrators a day earlier.
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PARIS- French police will from Monday become the first officers in Europe empowered to intercept Muslim women wearing full-face veils and to threaten them with fines if they refuse to expose their...
GAZA CITY, Mai Yaghi- Israeli warplanes and tanks hammered Gaza on Friday and early Saturday, killing 11 people in the deadliest day of violence in the strip since the end of the Gaza war two years...
CANNES, Audrey Stuart- Television game shows in which contestants try to win big money for themselves are giving way to more altruistic shows that focus on helping others, TV industry experts say....
RIO DE JANEIRO- Grief-stricken Brazilians on Friday buried their children slain in a school massacre in Rio, as the nation struggled to comprehend the ghastly act of a suicidal young man.
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BENGHAZI, Guillaume Lavallee- Libyan insurgents and civilians stampeded out of Ajdabiya on Thursday on rumours that loyalist forces were outside the eastern town, hours after a rebel armoured unit...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Javier Tovar- A heavily armed man burst into his former Rio school and opened fire on Thursday, killing 10 children and wounding 18 people before taking his own life, in an...
OTTAWA- A Canadian-led study has discovered that a gene mutation in Parkinson's patients prevents brain cells from purging a key protein linked to the degenerative disease, researchers said...