TOKYO, Miwa Suzuki- More than 1,000 people were feared dead after a monster tsunami unleashed by a massive quake which wreaked destruction across northeast Japan and triggered an emergency at a...
WASHINGTON, Shaun Tandon- A US judge on Friday ordered Twitter to hand over data of three users in contact with the controversial website WikiLeaks, rejecting arguments the move violated freedom of...
DAMASCUS- Dozens of jailed Kurds in Syria started a hunger strike on Thursday in solidarity with rights activists who have mounted the same action in a prison near Damascus, a rights group said....
CAIRO- Latest developments in the unrest sweeping the Middle East and North Africa in the past 24 hours.
LIBYA: Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam said victory was in sight against...
BENGHAZI, Jennie Matthew- The son of Libya's first revolutionary can barely remember his freedom-fighter father, hanged 80 years ago by the Italians, but he has no doubt that today's rebels will...
WASHINGTON- Former US first lady Laura Bush had a unique opening act before she gave a keynote speech Wednesday at the annual meeting of the CARE global anti-poverty group.
"Turquoise" and...
SYDNEY, Madeleine Coorey- Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch turns 80 on Friday, but is showing no signs of slowing down as he embarks on what could be the biggest deal in a life spent...
MUSCAT, Mohammad Bellouchi- Sultan Qaboos of Oman sacked his economy and interior ministers in a major cabinet reshuffle on Monday after weeks of anti-government protests in the strategic Gulf state,...
WARSAW- Marie Curie-Sklodowska, the Polish-born mother of modern physics, has been dubbed the "greatest Polish woman of all time" by Internet users in a poll released Monday by the Museum of Polish...
UNITED NATIONS- UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Sunday persuaded Moamer Kadhafi's foreign minister to let a "humanitarian assessment" team visit Tripoli and named a special envoy to deal with the regime, his...
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