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But can the British energy secretary, in Denmark for a frantic round of pre-summit diplomacy, win the argument? Around midnight: Britain's energy and climate change minister, Ed Milliband, talks to civil servants after a day of intergovernmental preparatory negotiations that...

A total of 25 hostages in Pakistan were freed early Sunday after being held by at least four militants at the army headquarters in Rawalpindi, an army spokesman said. Pakistani soldiers take up position after an attack on the army...

The Brazilian city made a passionate pitch for the 2016 Summer Games and will now make history as the first South American city to host the global sporting event. DePaul students Sara Urban (left), 18, and Maureen Clancy, 19, show...

French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his publishing house Plon said on Tuesday. Levi-Strauss, who was known to a wider public thanks to his 1955 memoir and masterpiece, "Tristes Tropiques,"...

The outage Tuesday night, which affected up to 70 million people, has proved an embarrassment for the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. at only RM 20 per month. Its easily done via email or over the phone....

The helicopter came down after the pilot was hit in the leg by a bullet and burst into flames. At least 10 other people were reported to have died in the fighting...It was the worst outbreak of violence since the...

Talk to taxi-drivers and hotel clerks in Nigeria's Delta region, and you hear the same words again and again: "We must give peace a chance." Shopkeepers smile with delight, chattering with customers about decommissioning and peace talks in the country's...

Elior Chen, the spiritual leader of a Jerusalem sect who was extradited to Israel last month, was indicted by the Jerusalem District Court on Monday for several charges of child abuse. Chen was charged with eight accounts of child abuse,...

When Rio de Janeiro was named the host of the 2016 Olympics earlier this month it seemed like a fresh start for one of the world's most vibrant, but violent cities. But a weekend of gang battles that spilled out...