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Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday appointed the Vatican`s first envoy to Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam war, in a ...

A new business in Georgia is offering single women who need household help the chance to hire `husbands` by the hour ...

The speaker of Nepal`s parliament on Thursday urged lawmakers to find a way to end a political deadlock that has left ...

The Supreme Court (MA) turned down the request for a judicial review of the case of Martin Eric Stephens, one of the ...

Three bombings near mosques in central and northern Baghdad on Thursday killed two people, and gunmen also killed a ...

Gaza`s Hamas rulers on Thursday ordered the security forces to ensure militant groups observed a truce on firing ...

Up till Thursday morning, 97 Indonesians in Queensland have been evacuated to safer places due to the big flood that ...

Iran hanged on Wednesday seven men convicted of drug trafficking and another found guilty of raping a teenage girl, ...

A Thai nationalist activist and his aide appeared in a Cambodian court Wednesday to face spying charges in a border ...

Lightning killed eight churchgoers in central Mozambique with a separate storm and floods raising the death toll to ...

The corner looked empty. "There`s an old woman standing there, wearing an old blue dress, and she has curly hair," ...

Eighteen people were killed and 15 others were wounded when a suicide bomber ploughed his explosives-laden car into a ...

Somali pirates have hijacked an Indian vessel carrying 14 fishermen off the coast of Oman, and Indian Navy official ...

Five NATO soldiers died in Afghanistan Wednesday -- four in separate Taliban-type bomb blasts and a fifth in an ...

Hamas was holding "urgent" talks with militant groups on Wednesday to pass on a warning from Arab leaders about firing ...