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A US destroyer and other foreign navy ships today converged on a Ukrainian vessel seized by Somali pirates last week with its cargo of combat tanks an
America and the world mourned Paul Newman on Sunday, with co-star and long-time friend Robert Redford...
Warned that time was running short to bolster the distressed economy, US congressional Republicans....
The Bank of England on Tuesday pumped another $40 billion dollars into money markets in a bid to ease credit-crunch pressures.
Hong Kong investors who bought complex financial products backed by collapsed US investment bank Lehman...
Lewis Hamilton arrived in Paris to appear before a three-man FIA tribunal hearing his Belgian Grand...
Barcelona registered their first league win of the season and they did it in style with a 6-1 demolition of 10-man Sporting Gijon.
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson took his case for an unprecedented $700-billion bailout of financial markets...
Germany on Saturday halted short-selling in financial shares, when investors borrow company stock to sell it, following the example of Britain and the
Central banks pumped billions into money markets for a second day Tuesday as worries grew that...
Former US secretaries of state have urged the next US president to work closely with key allies...
Troubled Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds expressed remorse on Tuesday over the “gone fishing” scandal and said he wanted to play for his country
Iran's ambassador to the UN atomic watchdog said today that his country will continue enriching uranium in...
Thousands of Jamaicans braved heavy rain to give triple Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt a rapturous welcome home.
A total of 43 people were killed in a massive weekend rock-slide in Egypt which flattened...
Yuriko Koike emerged on Wednesday as a possible contender to be Japan's first female prime minister...
Over a dozen Greek athletes who failed doping tests prior to and during last month’s Beijing Olympics thought a rare...
The European Union will be “vigilant” in its ties with Russia and could take decisions “concerning the future” of relations...
Australia is reconsidering a pact to sell uranium to Russia following its military push into Georgia, Foreign...
Germany’s economic prospects were pounded twice on Tuesday, as new surveys raised fears of recession...
Brazil failed miserably, now it’s Nigeria’s turn to find a way of keeping Argentina’s virtuoso Lionel Messi in check...
Banned Norwegian show jumper Tony Andre Hansen will fight his suspension from the Olympic individual jumping final...
16 policemen and 4 civilians killed in suicide bomb attack on police outside Lahore High Court...
Hugh MacDonald, Canadian reserve archer for the Olympics, was not a happy blogger. Stuck in Canada nursing...
Japan on Tuesday signalled it would approve the nuclear energy deal between India and the United States...
