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Hurricane Sandy has already knocked hundreds of thousands of residents across the Eastern Coast out of power even ...

Hackers attacked the server of the Greek Finance Ministry in protest of austerity and leaked confidential data about ...

The headquarters of the United Nations is going to be closed for at least one day because of an expected hurricane, ...

A car bombing left 13 dead and 28 others wounded in a major Shiite district in Iraq`s capital of Baghdad on Sunday ...

A total of 3,161,573 Muslim pilgrims from around the world are performing this year`s Hajj in Mecca, the Saudi news ...

China adopted a law on Friday to protect for the first time the rights of the mentally ill after years of accusations ...

Over 200 languages are spoken in multicultural Canada, where Asian languages have shown the strongest growth in recent ...

The fastest highway in the United State opened Wednesday in the U.S. state of Texas, U.S. media reported. The ...

Nine Marburg haemorrhagic fever (MHF) cases, including five deaths, have been reported in Uganda, the World Health ...

An Italian court on Monday (Oct. 22) sentenced seven officials and government-appointed scientists to six years each ...

"No toilet, no bride". That`s the latest message from a senior Indian Minister, who Sunday urged women not to get ...

Thirteen pilgrims sustained minor burns and 179 were rescued in a fire in a nine- storey building on Ibrahim Al Khalil ...

Early signs of lung cancer could be diagnosed using a simple blood test, according a new discovery published by ...

People of age 70 and older who eat food high in carbohydrates have a high risk of developing mild cognitive ...

Microsoft on Monday introduced Xbox Music, which combines free music streaming, music subscription and purchasing into ...