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The Palestinian protesters massed at the fence expected tear gas and rubber bullets; what they got instead...
A suicide attack on an Algerian police school at Issers, 60 kilometres east of Algiers killed 43 people...
England’s participation in next month’s Champions Trophy in Pakistan will be discussed at an England and Wales Cricket Board...
Defending champions United States finished full of running to overpower Japan 4-2 and advance to the...
Presidential election rivals Barack Obama and John McCain met on the campaign trail for the first time...
US political junkies will be casting nervous glances at their mobile phones this week, with Democratic White...
Japan’s Justice Minister on Friday hinted that authorities were ready to issue a visa for the baby girl born to an Indian surrogate mother...
A revelation by Olympic gold medal winner Guo Wenjun that she was abandoned by her father when she was 10 has caught China’s...
Treasury secretary won’t inject money into troubled mortgage giants; makes case for new norms to control markets.
Legendary US swimmer Mark Spitz won’t be on hand in Beijing if Michael Phelps breaks...
Georgia announced a cease-fire and pulled its forces out of the breakaway South Ossetia region on Sunday...
A vast array of controversies has swirled around the Beijing Olympics this year. However, that is all expected to be swept...
German companies in many cases enjoy a competitive advantage over their eurozone partners due to very low wage increases.
The UN atomic watchdog's deputy director general, Olli Heinonen, arrived in Tehran on Wednesday...
After two years of toil on an Olympics-linked electrical project, 50-year-old Dai Yi has been packed...
Paris Hilton entered the US presidential race, declaring her desire to campaign against “that wrinkly white-haired guy”...
New York’s World Trade Centre will forever be instantly associated with the horrors of September 11, 2001...
Novak Djokovic handed number one in waiting Rafael Nadal his first defeat in nearly three months, stunning the Spaniard 6-1, 7-5 to reach the final of
Forecast of rain and thundershowers in Beijing for opening day, typhoons may disrupt events at other cities.
The Beijing Olympics will see the biggest anti-doping effort in history, but the omens for a drug-free Games are not good.
White House hopeful Barack Obama is close to picking a running mate, with Timothy Kain, the one-term...
While New Zealand’s 183 Olympic athletes are getting masks to combat Beijing’s feared pollution, trap shooter Graeme Ede is taking special measures ag
The French Parliament has adopted a major economic reform that effectively ends the country’s mandatory 35-hour work week, in a Senate vote.
Chelsea captain John Terry admitted he was still haunted by his horror penalty miss in the Champions League final as he gears up for the new season he
England captain Michael Vaughan said controversial debutant Darren Pattinson had “tried his guts out”...
