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The death toll from fighting between Syrian government forces and civilians is rising, a day after the U.N. Security Council failed to approve a plan...

Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Libya's deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi, could go on trial "within weeks or months," Libya's interior minister said Sunday.

Demonstrators clashed with police outside the interior ministry in Cairo on Sunday as anger mounts over a deadly stampede at a soccer match that killed...

Radical cleric Abu Qatada should be freed from jail because he has been held too long, his lawyer tells a bail hearing.

Party leaders in Greece are to resume crisis talks on new austerity measures demanded by EU leaders in return for funds needed to avoid defaulting...

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, winner of the 2010 Tour de France, is handed a two-year ban for a doping offence.

Swiss-based commodities trader Glencore is willing to offer a higher than expected premium to clinch its acquisition of global mining giant Xstrata, the Financial Times...

Chancellor Angela Merkel and the bulk of the German cabinet descended on Paris Monday on a mission to rescue her French ally President Nicolas Sarkozy's...

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday suspended Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador for two years for a doping offence during the 2010 Tour...

China today denied US accusations it was protecting the Syrian regime, after drawing international criticism for vetoing a UN resolution condemning a deadly crackdown on...

An Iranian government-affiliated agency has banned dolls ...

Around 100 people, including women and children, were feared ...

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