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BEIRUT (AP):Gunmen in Syria staged a guerrilla-style ambush that killed a senior state prosecutor and a judge yesterday in an attack that suggested armed factions are growing bolder and more coordinated in their uprising against President Bashar Assad's...

BEIJING (AP):China's state news agency says 15 miners were killed and three others hurt when the mine carriages they were in plunged into a tunnel.Xinhua said the accident happened early yesterday in Hunan province in central China when the miners were...

WASHINGTON (AP):Top United States intelligence officials told Congress yesterday that al-Qaida of Iraq was likely behind a series of bombings against the Syrian regime in recent months.Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said bombings...

At least 21 people, believed to be Pakistani militants, have reportedly been killed in two separate attacks by an unmanned US drone aircraft in north-west Pakistan.

ZAGREB (AP):What becomes of a garden gnome hurled in fury at a windscreen during a stormy break-up?Or a teddy bear that was once a Valentine's Day present? A wedding dress from a marriage gone awry? An axe that...

Reports out of the UK have revealed that a record number of people were prosecuted for racially and religiously motivated hate crimes in England and Wales last year.

SAO PAULO (AP): A Brazilian airliner made a forced landing after a passenger reportedly attacked a pilot and crew members.The TAM Airlines jet was en route from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Sao Paulo when a man entered the cockpit an hour into the flight....

KINSHASA (AP):A senior presidential adviser was among two killed after a private jet crashed while landing in Congo's eastern city of Bukavu, a transport minister said yesterday."We've extracted two bodies from the plane, that of the honourable Augustin...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Rick Santorum is pursuing an aggressive strategy to challenge Mitt Romney in the state where the Republican presidential front-runner grew up.Santorum said yesterday he could do "exceptionally well" in Michigan, where Romney's...

The government in Greece has voted to approve new austerity measures demanded by the Eurozone and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in return for a 130 billion euro bailout.

BEIJING (AP):China's government yesterday promised to raise minimum wages by 13 per cent a year through 2015 and to launch measures to generate 45 million new jobs.Communist leaders face pressure to spread China's prosperity more widely ...

WASHINGTON (AP):The United States (US) and five European nations are pledging to crack down on global tax evaders.The Treasury Department said yesterday that the US government has signed a joint agreement with France, Germany, Italy...