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DENMARK:The Copenhagen Zoo killed Marius, its two-year-old giraffe, and fed its remains to lions yesterday, ignoring a petition signed by thousands of people and offers from other zoos and a private individual to save the animal, officials said.The zoo...

Swiss public television SRF reported that some 50.3 percent of voters backed a proposal by the nationalist People's Party to introduce quotas for all types of immigrants - 49.7 percent voted against.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the makeshift bombs were dropped on two rebel-held districts of Aleppo on Sunday.

Plenty of athletes made clear before travelling to Sochi how unhappy they were about gay rights being curtailed in Russia, particularly with its law banning gay "propaganda". But now in Sochi, there has not been a squeak of public protest from the 2,870 Olympians - either at venues or at last Friday's opening ceremony.

The New York Times is reporting that a painful mosquito-borne virus common in Africa and Asia has advanced quickly throughout the eastern Caribbean in the past two months, raising the prospect that a once-distant illness will become entrenched throughout the region.

Firefighters yesterday battled a giant blaze fuelled by 5,600 tons of rubber at the Port of Savannah, South Carolina, where a towering column of black smoke could be seen from miles away.

The number of children killed and wounded in Afghanistan's war jumped by 34 per cent last year as the Taliban stepped up attacks across the country and continued to lay thousands of roadside bombs, the United Nations said yesterday.

Demonstrators in Bosnia-Hercegovina have set fire to government buildings, in the worst unrest since the end of the 1992-95 war.

General Mauricio Ricardo Zuniga and another officer have been relieved of their duties while a full investigation takes place.

WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama told a non-denominational gathering of political leaders yesterday that freedom of religion across the world is important to national security and is a central tenet of American diplomacy.Speaking at the annual...

SOCHI, Russia (AP) :United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned attacks and discrimination against homosexuals yesterday, touching on the gay rights issue in Russia that has overshadowed preparations for...

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have charged Senator Patrick Brazeau and ex-Senator Mac Harb with fraud, saying they claimed improper living and travel expenses.