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WASHINGTON PRESIDENT Barack Obama insisted on Wednesday that flared tensions between the US and Afghan governments were “overstated” as Afghan – Read More...

TRIPOLI A LIBYAN airliner arriving from South Africa disintegrated on landing at Tripoli airport on Wednesday, killing 103 people but – Read More...

LONDON BRITAIN went to the polls on Thursday in a general election expected to be the closest in decades which, – Read More...

YANGON MYANMAR’S pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has failed in a legal bid to prevent the dissolution of her – Read More...

SINGAPORE THE world will remain heavily reliant on fossil fuels for the next 40 years, Shell’s chief executive said this – Read More...

THE huge die-off of bees worldwide, a major threat to crops depending on the honey-making insects for pollination, is not – Read More...

BANGKOK THAILAND’S anti-government “Red Shirt” protesters called on Thursday for the European Union to send observers to Bangkok to prevent – Read More...

WASHINGTON US Space agency NASA is pondering 28 potential missions focusing on finding life beyond Earth inside our solar system, – Read More...

LONDON BRITAIN’S ruling Labour Party saw their election campaign thrown into disarray on Thursday as Gordon Brown’s criticism of an – Read More...

WASHINGTON US President Barack Obama declared the world safer after a 47-nation summit agreed to a four-year deadline to lock – Read More...