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Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2009 | 12:27 PM

A Pakistan court has ordered that two men have their noses and ears chopped off, after the two were convicted of carrying out the same act on a young woman.

Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2009 | 12:25 PM

Colombian authorities are reporting that the kidnapped governor of southern Caqueta province has been found dead.

Published:Tuesday | December 22, 2009 | 6:10 PM

The White House has appointed Microsof executive Howard Schmidt as its cyber chief following a seven month search.

Published:Tuesday | December 22, 2009 | 1:22 PM

US senators are preparing for the second of three procedural votes on a major healthcare reform bill.

Published:Tuesday | December 22, 2009 | 1:21 PM

More than 80 people have died across Europe as a result of falling temperatures.

Published:Tuesday | December 22, 2009 | 9:06 AM

British Airways Cabin crew staff members are reportedly contemplating ways of going ahead with strike action.

Published:Tuesday | December 22, 2009 | 9:06 AM

Faced with limited soldiers for the Iraqi War, US General in charge of northern Iraq has made getting pregnant or impregnating a fellow soldier a punishable offence.

Published:Monday | December 21, 2009 | 5:51 PM

At least eight people are now dead after mortars were fired at Somali Members of Parliament, while they were holding their first meeting in Mogadishu since August.

Published:Monday | December 21, 2009 | 5:50 PM

The leaders of the three main political parties in the United Kingdom have agreed to stage the first ever live televised election debates next year.

Published:Monday | December 21, 2009 | 1:11 PM

At least eight people are now dead after mortars were fired at Somali Members of Parliament, while they were holding their first meeting in Mogadishu since August.

Published:Monday | December 21, 2009 | 1:10 PM

The Netherlands has denied that it is allowing the United States to use Dutch Caribbean islands to prepare a possible military attack against Venezuela.

Published:Friday | December 18, 2009 | 6:23 PM

US President Barack Obama has warned world leaders that time is running out to strike a deal at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen.

Published:Friday | December 18, 2009 | 1:44 PM

After more than 30 years in prison, a Florida man was set free yesterday after a DNA test showed he did not kidnap and rape a 9-year-old boy in 1974.

Published:Friday | December 18, 2009 | 1:43 PM

Investigators probing the June crash of an Air France flight in the Atlantic Ocean still do not know what brought the plane down.

Published:Thursday | December 17, 2009 | 6:08 PM

US diplomats have issued complaints that Pakistan is delaying the extension of visas of more than 100 US officials.

Published:Thursday | December 17, 2009 | 1:24 PM

A high court has issued a ruling declaring the planned strike by British Airways cabin crew illegal.

Published:Thursday | December 17, 2009 | 1:23 PM

The Danish presidency of the climate summit in Copenhagen said a deal may have to wait until 2010.

Published:Thursday | December 17, 2009 | 9:33 AM

The Canadian Supreme Court will today for the first time hear a matter on the plight of migrant workers in that country.

Published:Thursday | December 17, 2009 | 9:32 AM

Talks to avert strike action by British Airways cabin crew are due to resume later after ending without agreement yesterday.

Published:Wednesday | December 16, 2009 | 1:13 PM

The police were this morning called in to control hundreds of protesters who tried to break through a perimeter fence at the UN climate summit venue in Copenhagen.

Published:Wednesday | December 16, 2009 | 1:12 PM

The Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board, Ben Bernanke has been named Time Magazine\'s Person of the Year.

Published:Wednesday | December 16, 2009 | 9:21 AM

One of the five manufacturers supplying Influenza H1N1 vaccine to the United States is recalling hundreds of thousands of flu shots because they are not as potent as they should be.

Published:Tuesday | December 15, 2009 | 8:18 PM

Renowned US television evangelist Oral Roberts has died in California at the age of 91.

Published:Tuesday | December 15, 2009 | 6:42 PM

At least 20 people have been killed in a bomb attack in a market in central Pakistan.

Published:Tuesday | December 15, 2009 | 6:40 PM

US President Barack Obama has ordered the federal government to buy a prison in Illinois to house a number of inmates from Guantanamo Bay.

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