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LONDON (AP):Britain's Home Office is seeking an injunction to halt a strike on the eve of the Olympics by immigration staff at UK airports.Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union, which represents staff at British airports, voted last week...

LONDON (AP): Britain's government opted yesterday to deploy 1,200 more troops to protect Olympic venues, a move that reflects a lack of confidence that private security contractor G4S can deliver all it promised for the games.The fresh troops come only...

LONDON (AP):Attention Harry hunters: Britain's young royals will be out and about in force during the London Olympics. The royals' Clarence House announced yesterday what events Prince Charles, his wife Camilla...

VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Benedict XVI says he is praying that the London Olympics promote world peace and friendship, a message the Vatican is increasingly emphasising as it focuses renewed attention on the positive role...

At least 107 people are now dead following a wave of bomb attacks and shootings across Baghdad.

VATICAN CITY (AP):The Vatican has stripped a university in Peru of the right to use "pontifical" or "Catholic" in its name, capping a decades-long struggle.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):As home to the world's cheapest gasoline, Venezuela has long had to contend with the haemorrhaging of supplies as smugglers haul gas across the border to cash in where the fuel costs far more.

Police in the State of Colorado, in the United States, are making a second attempt to enter the booby-trapped home of the man suspected of shooting 12 people to death and injuring 58 others at a movie

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Halle Berry suffered a minor head injury during a movie-shoot fight sequence and was treated at a Los Angeles hospital and released.

The most senior Syrian politician to defect to the opposition has told the BBC the Bashar al-Assad regime will not hesitate to use chemical weapons if it is cornered.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP): CHILE'S PRESIDENT signed an anti-discrimination law Thursday following the killing of a gay man beaten by attackers who carved swastikas into his body....