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World Heritage Committee will meet this month in Cambodia to consider adding 32 more sites onto UNESCO`s World ...

U.S. President Obama on Monday called for more work to be done to close the wage gap for women in the workplace, ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon announced the appointment of German Martin Kobler to head the UN Organization ...

The 94-year-old former South African president Nelson Mandela`s condition remains "unchanged," the Presidency said on ...

Turkish police on Sunday used tear gas to disperse demonstrators in Ankara as nationwide protests against the ...

An international team of researchers reported they have discovered an intriguing clue that could help solve a ...

The ongoing rain continues here in southern German state of Bavaria on Sunday, resulting in emergency to many parts ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday (May 25) here that the opportunity for making peace with the ...

Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection about 120 miles (193 kilometers) south of St. Louis in Missouri ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Friday strongly condemned a deadly attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul, the ...

The deadly tornado that blasted the southern suburbs of Oklahoma City, capital of the US state of Oklahoma, has ...

A 7.6-magnitude quake struck in the sea south of Tonga at 1:19 a.m. Friday Beijing Time, according to the China ...

An international data protection forum that started here Thursday will focus on cybercrime and other computer ...

Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), on Monday called for efforts from member ...

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake jolted the sea area off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia at 2:44 a.m. ...