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Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2010 | 9:06 AM

A commission has begun investigating last year\'s military-backed overthrow of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.

Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

ATLANTA (AP): A gay Atlanta pastor and his partner who have been at the centre of a battle over the treatment of gay clergy by America's largest Lutheran denomination are being reinstated to the denomination's clergy roster...

Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Actor Corey Haim died from pneumonia, complicated by an enlarged heart, bad lungs and narrowed blood vessels, while drugs found in his system played no role in his death, the Los Angeles County coroner...

Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is confronting the threat of a new round of United Nations' (UN) economic sanctions on his country by saying experience shows sanctions cannot deter the Iranian nation...

Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The suspect in the failed Times Square bombing told authorities he trained at a terrorism camp in Pakistan, officials said yesterday, as they worked to unravel the events leading up to the nearly...

Published:Wednesday | May 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Iran has held unusually direct talks with a United States-based lawyer over the fate of an American businessman jailed nearly two years in Iran.A lawyer for Reza Taghavi has twice travelled to Tehran...

Published:Tuesday | May 4, 2010 | 6:38 PM

A Pakistan-born US citizen has been charged with terrorism over the failed car-bomb attack in New York\'s Times Square on Saturday.

Published:Tuesday | May 4, 2010 | 1:08 PM

Historians and anti-racism campaigners say they intend to urge countries that oversaw and profited from the Atlantic slave trade to recognise it as a crime against humanity.

Published:Tuesday | May 4, 2010 | 9:31 AM

US investigators have arrested a suspect in connection with an attempted car bomb attack in New York City.

Published:Tuesday | May 4, 2010 | 9:29 AM

All flights in and out of the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland have been banned because of fresh risks from volcanic ash.

Published:Monday | May 3, 2010 | 5:53 PM

Journalists protesting against the death of a Cameroonian newspaper editor have clashed with riot police in the capital Yaounde.

Published:Monday | May 3, 2010 | 5:53 PM

US Attorney General Eric Holder says the police have made substantial progress in investigating an attempted car bomb attack in New York City.

Published:Monday | May 3, 2010 | 1:00 PM

US-based United Airlines and Continental Airlines have agreed to merge, creating the world\'s biggest carrier.

Published:Monday | May 3, 2010 | 12:59 PM

The sole surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 174 people died has been found guilty in an Indian court.

Published:Monday | May 3, 2010 | 9:05 AM

New York city’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg says there’s no evidence that the failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in the city was the work of al-Qaeda or any other big terrorist group.

Published:Friday | April 30, 2010 | 5:41 PM

A tough new anti-immigration law in the US state of Arizona is facing its first legal challenges.

Published:Friday | April 30, 2010 | 5:40 PM

The Governor of Florida Charlie Crist has declared a state of emergency as a result of the oil spill off the Louisiana coast.

Published:Friday | April 30, 2010 | 12:49 PM

The US administration has banned oil drilling in new areas of the US coast while the cause of the oil spill off Louisiana is investigated.

Published:Friday | April 30, 2010 | 12:49 PM

The US House of Representatives has approved a measure allowing Puerto Rico to set a new referendum on statehood or possible independence.

Published:Friday | April 30, 2010 | 9:29 AM

The US Coast Guard is reporting that oil has started washing ashore on the US Gulf Coast from a leaking offshore well.

Published:Thursday | April 29, 2010 | 5:58 PM

Russia and the United States are continuing discussions over the adoption of Russian orphans by American families, which was suspended this month.

Published:Thursday | April 29, 2010 | 1:08 PM

The US military has joined efforts to stop an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

Published:Thursday | April 29, 2010 | 1:07 PM

Nigeria\'s Senate has ordered an investigation into reports that one of its members has married a 13-year-old Egyptian girl.

Published:Thursday | April 29, 2010 | 9:11 AM

Twenty-eight children and three adults have been injured by a man with a knife at a kindergarten in eastern China, the third such attack in a month.

Published:Wednesday | April 28, 2010 | 6:12 PM

US Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, has approved controversial plans for the country\'s first offshore wind farm to operate off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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