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Published:Monday | November 16, 2009 | 9:22 AM

The Obama administration is considering moving some Guantanamo detainees to a prison in the President\'s home state of Illinois.

Published:Friday | November 13, 2009 | 5:20 PM

The US Army psychiatrist accused of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood is reportedly now paralysed.

Published:Friday | November 13, 2009 | 5:19 PM

At least two people have been killed after a series of explosions at an arms depot in central Russia.

Published:Friday | November 13, 2009 | 1:48 PM

British fraud investigators have opened an inquiry into the activities of a hedge fund based in the Cayman Islands.

Published:Friday | November 13, 2009 | 1:47 PM

The man said to be behind the 9/11 attacks in the United States is to be sent from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre to New York for trial in a civilian court.

Published:Friday | November 13, 2009 | 9:20 AM

British Airways and Spanish Airline Iberia, said they have reached a preliminary agreement for a merger expected to be completed in late 2010.

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2009 | 6:15 PM

The US parents who triggered a major alert by claiming their six-year-old son was adrift in a helium balloon are to answer to related charges tomorrow.

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2009 | 6:15 PM

Military prosecutors have charged Fort Hood shooting suspect Major Nidal Malik Hasan with 13 counts of premeditated murder.

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2009 | 12:47 PM

The Venezuelan Government has publicly destroyed more than 30,000 guns seized by police on the streets of the country, which has one of the world\'s highest murder rates.

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2009 | 12:46 PM

Authorities in Mexico have dismissed almost a quarter of all traffic police in the city of Monterrey for failing corruption and competence tests.

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2009 | 8:40 AM

Cambodia has rejected an extradition request from Thailand for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, further escalating a diplomatic row.

Published:Thursday | November 12, 2009 | 8:39 AM

A severe storm has been cited as the cause for widespread power cuts in Brazil which lasted more than 5 hrs.

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2009 | 6:01 PM

A man has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murdering a pregnant Egyptian woman in a German courtroom.

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2009 | 1:10 PM

The United Nations General Assembly has declared July 18 as Mandela Day, to mark the contribution of Nelson Mandela to world freedom.

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2009 | 1:09 PM

US President Barack Obama is to discuss US policy in Afghanistan with his national security team, as speculation mounts over a decision on troop levels.

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2009 | 8:50 AM

About 10,000 people in El Salvador are in need of food aid after devastating floods washed away crops.

Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2009 | 8:50 AM

The man behind the 2002 sniper attacks in and around Washington DC in the United States has been executed after a last ditch appeal was thrown out.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 6:28 PM

Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives are preparing legislation that could expand farm trade with Cuba and ease longstanding travel restrictions.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 12:49 PM

Three days of national mourning have begun in El Salvador following the deaths of at least 130 people in floods and landslides.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 12:48 PM

At least 20 people have been killed and many more injured in a car bombing in the Northwestern Pakistani town of Charsadda.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 11:10 AM

World leaders on Monday celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall that changed Europe 20 years ago.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 11:05 AM

The United States Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday\'s scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad, according to a report on www.ap.org.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 9:09 AM

John Allen Mohammad, the man convicted of killing 10 persons and injuring several others in Washington D.C. in the United States, is expected to be executed today.

Published:Monday | November 9, 2009 | 6:26 PM

The police in the southern Philippines say the severed head of a kidnapped schoolteacher has been found in a bag at a petrol station.

Published:Monday | November 9, 2009 | 6:24 PM

Soldiers and civilians in the small Salvadorean town of Verapaz are now searching debris left by a landslide for missing people.

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