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Australia's new Foreign Minister Bob Carr, named by PM Julia Gillard to replace Kevin Rudd two weeks ago is set to be sworn in.

China's two largest online video companies Youku and Tudou agree to merge in a bid to cut costs and boost their market share.

Any author or filmmaker seeking ideas for a sci-fi yarn about the implications of artificial intelligence -- good or bad -- would be smart to talk to Ray Kurzweil.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- A mosque near Brussels was the target Monday evening of an arson attack in which the imam died, Belgian authorities said late Monday....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- A mosque near Brussels was the target Monday evening of an arson attack in which the imam died, Belgian authorities said late Monday....

Answers remain in short supply as to why an unarmed teenager was shot and killed two weeks ago.

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco's sheriff pleaded guilty Monday to false imprisonment, thus avoiding a domestic violence trial that could have cost him his job and ending the public airing of a personal drama worthy of the Venezuela telenovela that his wife once starred in.

Ross Mirkarimi, 50, accepted the ...

Authorities in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua ban Los Tigres del Norte band after they played a song which officials say glorifies drug trafficking.

Almost 100 local council workers are being employed via private limited companies in what has been branded a 'tax avoidance scheme' by public accounts committee chair Margaret Hodge MP.

STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) -- Ever since seafaring explorers happened upon these uninhabited islands in the 16th century, people have been fighting over them....

A truce mediated by Egypt has been agreed between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza after four days of deadly clashes.

Park home owners fight back against exploitation

Why Gotye nearly abandoned his number one single

Photographer tells of his travels across the two Sudans

What is Britain's best spring bloom?

Warhammer 40,000 has just turned 25. Why are grown men still launching table-top war?

Cuts in spending on road maintenance could cost taxpayers more in the long term and are likely to increase repair bills for motorists, MPs warn.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The weekend massacre of Afghan civilians, allegedly carried out by a U.S. soldier, newly undermines the rationale for a war that a majority of Americans already thought wasn't worth fighting. But the Obama administration and its allies insisted Monday the horrific episode would not speed up plans to pull out foreign forces....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Aiming to level the playing field for U.S. companies, the Obama administration on Tuesday will bring a new trade case against China that seeks to pressure the rising economic power to end its export restrictions on key materials used to manufacture hybrid car batteries, flat-screen televisions and other high-tech goods....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Aiming to level the playing field for U.S. companies, the Obama administration on Tuesday will bring a new trade case against China that seeks to pressure the rising economic power to end its export restrictions on key materials used to manufacture hybrid car batteries, flat-screen televisions and other high-tech goods....