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Anti-government demonstrators say they will gather in the thousands in the Thailand capital Bangkok today in a bid to force the Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva from office.

The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at former US President George W Bush has had his sentence cut from three years to one year on appeal.

Forecasters at the Colorado State University are predicting an average 2009 Atlantic hurricane season with 12 named storms and six hurricanes forming in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has removed all four countries from its blacklist of tax havens.

At least 90 people are believed dead and tens of thousands homeless after an earthquake hit L\'Aquila and other towns in central Italy this morning.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy has hailed the decision of G20 leaders to impose tough sanctions against nations refusing to release tax information.

French police have clashed with anti-Nato protesters in Strasbourg, France firing teargas and rubber bullets to stop a crowd getting to the city centre.

Leaders of the world\'s largest economies have reached an agreement to tackle the global financial crisis with measures worth one point one trillion US dollars.

Rescuers in Scotland are searching for possible survivors after a helicopter crashed into the North Sea.

World leaders will strive to reach an agreement on how to confront the worst global financial crisis since the 1930s at the G20 summit in London.

Mr Stanford wants a federal judge to free up some of his money to allow him to hire a lawyer.

A convicted Canadian contract killer has confessed to 28 murders and 12 attempted murders in the course of three decades, at his trial in Quebec.