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An Australian man was lucky to be alive Monday after a shark rammed his surfboard and bit off a huge chunk. The ...

Foreigners are fuelling the problem of corruption in Afghanistan, a country ranked as one of the most corrupt in the ...

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki headed to Washington on Sunday, for the first time as leader of a country virtually ...

Weekend clashes in southern Yemen left two government soldiers and 11 suspected members of Al-Qaeda dead, military and ...

A bicycle bomb killed at least two people, including a member of Afghanistan`s peace council, and left 16 wounded when ...

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, her compatriot and "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni activist ...

Yemeni tribesmen have killed two suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the restive southern province of Abyan, a tribal ...

A suicide bomber on Friday attacked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, assassinating a district police chief and killing ...

Indonesia is urging Syrian authorities to prioritize dialogs as part of efforts to resolve the armed conflict in the ...

Japan on Friday decided to extend its sanctions on Iran after similar moves by other nations to beef up international ...

Pakistan`s beleaguered president was Thursday moved out of intensive care at a Dubai hospital, officials said, after ...

The United States expressed disappointment Thursday over Israeli settlement activity after the approval of ...

A former leader of Mexico`s powerful Ciudad Juarez cartel was sentenced to 18.5 years in a US prison on drug ...

More than 20 trucks were destroyed in a rocket attack Thursday on a NATO trucking terminal in southwest Pakistan ...

Around 800 people poured onto the streets in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Thursday to condemn NATO and the ...