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The Syrian authorities on Sunday released Anwar al-Bunni, a Syrian lawyer and human rights activist, after he finished ...

"The Tree of Life" by American director Terrence Malick has won the 2011 Golden Palm (Palme d`Or), the most ...

Malaysian police on Sunday confirmed that 16 were killed in landslides occured near an orphanage on Saturday afternoon ...

A total of 16 people were confirmed dead in a boat mishap with the last body was found in the sunken boat by 03:43 ...

The defense ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan met here on Friday to discuss military cooperation, ...

The main opposition Pheu Thai Party `s prime minister candidate Yingluck Shinawatra said on Thursday she would start ...

The Myanmar authorities released the up-date revised death toll of Thursday`s major earthquake which was aired by the ...

China`s celebrated Shaolin Temple is training young kungfu disciples to play football in the far-off hope of reversing ...

The nearly intact skeleton fossil of a dinosaur believed to have lived about 110 million years ago was recently ...

Archaeologists have discovered India`s oldest stone-age tools, up to 1.5 million years old, at a pre-historic site ...

The death toll of Myanmar`s Thursday earthquake has risen to 65 with 111 injured so far, official sources said on ...

Muslim extremists linked to Al Qaida released one of its four hostages in southern Philippines, a local police ...

French Tornado fighter jets from aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle launched a reconnaissance operation over Libya for ...

Egypt`s prominent opposition figure Mohammed ElBaradei was attacked Saturday by stones and bricks thrown from crowds ...

Chinese scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus carried by ticks which led to at least 36 deaths in six ...