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Published:Friday | July 10, 2009 | 5:54 PM

US car company General Motors (GM) said it has emerged from bankruptcy after downsizing.

Published:Friday | July 10, 2009 | 2:03 PM

Leaders of the G8 group of developed nations have pledged US$20 Billion to boost food supplies to needy countries.

Published:Friday | July 10, 2009 | 2:02 PM

Two men have been given prison sentences after becoming the first in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred online.

Published:Friday | July 10, 2009 | 9:02 AM

More than 10,000 Chinese have been left homeless after an earthquake measuring a magnitude of 6 stuck the country yesterday.

Published:Friday | July 10, 2009 | 9:01 AM

Agents from the United States Attorney General’s Office in California have arrested 20 persons whom they believe are part of a group which offered unlicensed medical care to disabled children.

Published:Thursday | July 9, 2009 | 6:05 PM

A husband and wife were charged in the Bermuda Magistrates\' Court today after they allegedly stole more than US$3 million from the investment firm they set up.

Published:Thursday | July 9, 2009 | 5:54 PM

Six gang members have been given life sentences for stabbing a 14-year-old boy to death in an east London park.

Published:Thursday | July 9, 2009 | 5:53 PM

US President Barack Obama is scheduled to address the parliament of Ghana this Saturday.

Published:Thursday | July 9, 2009 | 1:53 PM

UK police are to investigate claims that the British paper News of the World ran a huge mobile phone hacking operation.

Published:Thursday | July 9, 2009 | 11:42 AM

Leaders of the G8 leading industrial countries have agreed to try to limit global warming to just 2 degrees celsius or 3.6 degrees farenheit above pre-industrial levels by 2050.

Published:Wednesday | July 8, 2009 | 1:29 PM

UK banks will face tougher regulation under reforms from the country’s financial system.

Published:Wednesday | July 8, 2009 | 1:24 PM

More details are emerging about the death of pop star Michael Jackson.

Published:Tuesday | July 7, 2009 | 6:14 PM

Thousands of mourners turned out today at the Los Angeles Staples Centre in memory of the King of Pop, Michael Joseph Jackson.

Published:Tuesday | July 7, 2009 | 2:02 PM

The Catholic leader Pope Benedict the 16th has called for reform of the United Nations and financial bodies, saying that an equitable approach needs to be taken towards the global economic crisis.

Published:Tuesday | July 7, 2009 | 9:31 AM

International pop star Michael Jackson\'s family is to hold a private function at a Los Angeles cemetery today.

Published:Tuesday | July 7, 2009 | 9:30 AM

Deposed Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya is expected to travel to Washington for a meeting today with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Published:Monday | July 6, 2009 | 6:11 PM

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has granted control of Michael Jackson\'s assets to the executors of his will.

Published:Monday | July 6, 2009 | 1:07 PM

The UK Justice Secretary says nearly 1,000 offenders who should have been sent back to prison are still at large in the country.

Published:Monday | July 6, 2009 | 9:34 AM

Ousted Honduran President Jose Zelaya is now in El Salvador after the military prevented him from landing at an airport yesterday.

Published:Friday | July 3, 2009 | 5:16 PM

Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has announced she will resign as governor of Alaska on July 26 and not run for re-election.

Published:Friday | July 3, 2009 | 5:15 PM

A federal judge in Dallas, Texas announced he will consider a request for money to be made available to pay lawyers and accountants for Allen Stanford.

Published:Friday | July 3, 2009 | 1:10 PM

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has described the spread of the H1N1 virus worldwide as unstoppable.

Published:Thursday | July 2, 2009 | 5:55 PM

Debbie Rowe, the ex-wife of Michael Jackson, said she would fight for custody of the two children she had with the late pop icon.

Published:Thursday | July 2, 2009 | 5:54 PM

French investigators probing why an Air France plane crashed in the Atlantic last month, say they believe the aircraft broke up on contact with water, and not in the air.

Published:Thursday | July 2, 2009 | 12:55 PM

A former chief financial officer of the Stanford Financial Group who was implicated in the Allen Stanford fraud case has reached a deal with prosecutors.

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