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Although he didn't know the words to "Solidarity Forever" British folk singer Billy Bragg sang labour songs for the striking workers outside Ottawa's National museum today. Undeterred by a driving rain, the bumbershoot -bearing Bragg belted out some Labour standards...

The head of the UN atomic watchdog has urged Iran to accept a deal over its nuclear programme by the end of the year, and "move beyond sanctions". Mohammed ElBaradei said the ball was "very much in the Iranian court"....

In this photo Seventeen school children are crammed into one of India's notoriously unstable three-wheeler taxis as they make their way to school in the city of Bhopal, India. United Nations officials urged cash-strapped governments not to cut back spending...

LONDON: The Archbishop of Westminster today said that the Anglicans turning Catholics in protest against women priesthood, sexual ethics etc. should realize that it’s from an attitude of ‘pick and choose’ religion. Vincent Nichols, the most senior Bishop in the...

ISLAMABAD : The mastermind of suicide attacks on World Food Program and Rescue 15 offices has been arrested on Friday, In a media briefing, Federal Police IG said Jamsheed alias Tahir has belonged to Mulla Rahim group and Ghazi force...

TRISHNA and Krishna are beginning their wonderful new lives as healthy little girls with hopes they will be home for Christmas. Brain scans have given the Bangladeshi orphans a remarkably clean bill of health after their 31 1/2-hour separation surgery...

KABUL, Afghanistan - It is far from clear that President Obama can depend on President Hamid Karzai to bring order to this violent country, but it is becoming clear that he will depend on Hillary Rodham Clinton to be his...

Constitutional Court on Thursday effectively abolished the death penalty, extending indefinitely a 13-year-old moratorium on capital punishment. Cars drive by the headquarters of Russia's Constitutional Court in St. Petersburg in this December 23, 2007 file photo. (REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk/Files)......

As President Obama mulls additional U.S. troop deployments inAfghanistan, the British public increasingly doubt their military.