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Andrei Lugovoi, the former Russian agent wanted by Britain over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, is running for election as an ultra-nationalist ca
Physicists in the United States announced on Wednesday that they had met a 60-year challenge to create molecules of positronium...
European Commissioner Guenter Verheugen misled the media over an intimate relationship with a colleague whom he promoted to a senior job, a German mag
Ian Porterfield, who scored a legendary FA Cup final winner and later managed Chelsea and a string of national teams, died on Tuesday, his family said
Cyber attacks against government networks in recent months illustrate how sates like China are discovering the power of a new weapon...
Stronger in spirit and more willing to open her true self to the world, Justine Henin is having more fun in life...
World championship leading British rookie Lewis Hamilton warned that his dream of lifting the title in his debut season could be wrecked...
Al-Qaeda’s media arm said on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks that it will soon release a new video of Osama...
Internet giant Google was accused on Monday of misleading web users and misidentifying sponsored links in a court case...
The brain neurons of liberals and conservatives fire differently when confronted with tough choices, suggesting that some political divides may be har
Police announced on Sunday the arrest of a gang of alleged neo-Nazis, all Israeli citizens from the former Soviet Union accused of attacking immigrant
Three suspected Islamists arrested in Germany for plotting to bomb US targets had received orders from a contact in Pakistan...
Captain Graeme Smith led South Africa to an eight-wicket win over Australia today as favoured teams stuttered in practice matches...
Ricky Ponting will join the Australian squad for the inaugural Twenty20 Cricket World Championships in South Africa after his wife’s health improved.
An aircraft with state-of-the-art imaging technology joined the search for aviator Steve Fossett on Thursday...
Former New Zealand allrounder Chris Harris is being tipped to join the rebel Indian Cricket League after deciding not to renew his contract with first
All-rounder Upul Chandana, one of Sri Lanka’s 1996 world cup winning team, today announced he had quit International Cricket and accused the selectors
Meddling with the competition schedule for a television ratings boost, the US Tennis Association decided to delay the US Open quarter final between Ve
Polish teenager Agnieszka Radwanska was heading for a shopping spree after her shock win over defending champion Maria Sharapova...
South Korea paid two million dollars to Taliban extremists in Afghanistan to secure the release of 19 hostages...
US President George W Bush today raised the spectre of a “nuclear holocaust” in the Middle East if Israel’s arch-foe Iran gets atomic weapons, and vow
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday scoffed at the notion of a US attack on his country dismissed a warning from his new French counter
Scientists say they have carried out the first study that confirms that evolutionary pressure — the drive to have more children, in short — is what ca
Austrian police on Wednesday said they had dismantled a group that apparently smuggled some 250 Indians and Pakistanis from Slovakia to Italy via Aust
Concerns over the match-fix gambling probe involving fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko haunt the US Open on the eve of the Grand Slam.
