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An explosion near a school in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad on Monday wounded scores of children, while militants elsewhere continued to attack Iraq ’s security forces in a spate of bombings, shootings and poisonings. Government officials gave contradictory...

The man, named as David Headley, had already been accused of plotting to attack a Danish newspaper...Separately, a Danish newspaper caused outrage in the Muslim world in 2005 by printing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Bookmark with:

Oxycodone deaths rose fivefold in Ontario after OxyContin – the brand name of a popular version of the prescription painkiller – was introduced to the public drug plan, according to a study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal....

SNL’ Skit Critized for Tiger Woods Domestic Violence Spoof December 7th, 2009 11:34 am / Author: Nicole Eggenberger A Saturday Night Live skit featuring Keenan Thompson and host Blake Lively as Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren is making headlines for...

A tipster in Sweden says that Elin Nordegren 's mother, a prominent figure in the Gavleborg region, has cancelled all her pre-scheduled appearances and engagements and will fly to the US to be with her daughter. It may just be...

Anti-government protesters in Iran subject to police violence...All this and more in today's update. Just as Iran was today commemorating the victims of a 1953 police assault on anti-American student protesters, Iranian police were reported to have surrounded the main...

The conference agreed to strictly control the issuing of loans to sectors featuring high energy consumption and high carbon emissions, increase credit support to low-carbon industries, strictly reduce exports of high energy-consuming products and rollout low-carbon economic development pilot...

In her first public comments about her departure from “Good Morning America,” Diane Sawyer confirmed today that she will end her run on the ABC News morning show on Friday, a decade after joining the anchor desk for what was...

The heat is scorching as the young woman knocks on the window of my taxi, though rather than begging for cash she points at my water bottle, then to her mouth. In a city where clean water has become a...

The Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) offered a $40,000 (£24,350) prize to the first person to locate ten big, red balloons raised on tethers across America on Saturday, from Portland, Oregon, to Miami, Florida. The goal was to...