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SYDNEY Julia Gillard pulled off the “greatest escape” since Houdini by clinging on to power as Australian prime minister, but – Read More...

WASHINGTON An evangelical Florida church has vowed to press ahead with plans to burn the Koran to mark the anniversary – Read More...

HYDERABAD Pakistan ordered nearly half a million people to evacuate towns on Thursday as rising floods threaten further havoc in – Read More...

JAKARTA Islamist extremists were hunting the editor of the defunct Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine on Thursday as police awaited – Read More...

WASHINGTON US combat troops pulling out of Iraq can claim the ouster of a brutal dictator as a clear success – Read More...

Twenty years after Lenin’s statue began to tumble across post-Communist Eastern Europe, the southern French city of Montpellier has erected – Read More...

KABUL Afghanistan marked its independence day on Thursday as the long war in the country drags on, with foreign military – Read More...

MOSCOW Looking out over his sunflower fields in Russia’s famed black earth country, Alexander Kniazev despaired over the damage done – Read More...

SINGAPORE More Asian families are struggling under the pressure of simultaneously supporting their children and ageing parents, a study released – Read More...

TOKYO United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday for the total elimination of nuclear weapons, during a visit to – Read More...