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Beijing said that Chen Guangcheng, who is at the center of a diplomatic storm, has the right to apply to study abroad after he told U.S. lawmakers that he wants to leave his homeland for the United States.

An attack on a cattle market in northeastern Nigeria by gunmen armed with explosives has left at least 34 dead, as strife spreads across country.

A pastel version of “The Scream” by Edvard Munch fetched nearly $120 million from an anonymous buyer at Sotheby’s in New York, setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.

US State Department confirms blind activist at center of growing diplomatic standoff has told its officials he now wishes to leave China.

Unknown assailants have killed at least eight people protesting against Egypt’s ruling generals near the Defense Ministry in Cairo.

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has left the U.S. embassy in Beijing to seek medical care and join his family, as China demanded an apology from the United States on the eve of key talks between the two powers.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi takes a historic oath to join a parliamentary system crafted by the generals who locked her away for much of her long struggle against dictatorship, ushering in a dramatic new political era.

A river ferry broke in two and sank in a remote part of northeastern India.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp showed “willful blindness” about the scale of phone-hacking at its News of the World tabloid, for which Murdoch and his son James should take responsibility, according to a much anticipated British par

Tomas Borge Martinez, the last surviving founder of the Sandinista guerrilla movement that overthrew Nicaragua’s U.S.-backed right-wing dictatorship in 1979, is dead at the age of 81.

Spain confirms it is officially back in recession, as the country’s economy shrank by 0.3 percent in the first quarter compared to the previous three months.

Pressure is mounting on the German government to boycott Euro 2012 matches in Ukraine this summer because of alleged mistreatment of the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

Shokri Ghanem, Libya’s former prime minister and top oil official who defected to the rebels in June, was found dead in the Danube River in Vienna.

Four blasts within minutes rocked the center of the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, in what prosecutors believed was a terrorist attack.

A Pakistani court had charged bin Laden’s three widows and two of his grown-up daughters with illegal entry and residency in the country.

One of China’s best known dissidents, Chen Guangcheng, has escaped from house arrest. The blind activist has released a video addressed to Premier Wen Jiabao.

Judges at a war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands give their ruling on the former Liberian president Charles Taylor, accused of arming Sierra Leone’s rebels who paid him in “blood diamonds”.

Congress has moved one step closer to overhauling the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service by approving sweeping reforms to rebalance the mail agency’s finances and help cut the size of its delivery network.

Up to 70 people have been killed in an attack on a house in the Masha at-Tayyar district in southern Hama, according to Syrian activists.

A sharp rise in the number of deaths in the Syrian uprising is casting fresh doubt on the success of a UN peace plan, and testing a ceasefire deal.

Lebanese terror leader Abdel Ghani Jawhar detonated himself accidentally in Syria, raising questions about the kind of company the rebels are keeping.

The president of South Sudan Salva Kiir says attacks by rival Sudan amount to a declaration of war on his country.

Zimmerman, the man who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February, posted $150,000 bail and left the Sanford jail fitted with an electronic monitoring device that the Sheriff’s Office and Seminole County Probation officials will use to keep tr

Egypt has cancelled a 20-year contract to supply Israel with natural gas in a move interpreted as a sign of increasingly fragile relations between the allies.

With all votes counted on Monday, Socialist candidate François Hollande came in first with 28.63% support, beating Nicolas Sarkozy by just over a percentage point (27.18%), while National Front candidate Marine Le Pen posted the best result ever for a far

One of the Secret Service supervisors ousted from the agency this week for their involvement in the Colombia prostitution scandal made light of his official protective work on his Facebook page, making a joke about Sarah Palin.

Vietnam has asked international health experts to help investigate a mystery illness that has killed 19 people and sickened 171 others in an impoverished district in central Vietnam.

Last year’s race in Bahrain was canceled twice because of the unrest, but the sport’s governing body said Friday the race would go ahead as planned, despite tension on the country’s streets.

A series of bombs exploded in Baghdad, killing at least 31 people and leaving more than 50 others injured, in the first major attacks in Iraq in nearly a month.

India has successfully launched a long-range missile able to carry a nuclear warhead; it gives the country, for the first time, the capability of striking the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai.

Spain managed to sell 2.5 billion euros ($3.3 billion) of bonds at auction –as much as it wanted– but at a cost of rising yields as the country struggles to tame its deficit.

A clash between Sudan and South Sudan troops kills 22 soldiers as combat spreads into a new area along the nations’ tense border.

The motto for the London Olympics has been revealed as “Inspire a generation” as events are held to mark the 100-day countdown to the opening ceremony.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and newly elected lawmaker Aung San Suu Kyi will travel outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years after accepting invitations to visit Norway and Britain in June.

China has joined other world powers in warning North Korea that they will not tolerate any more provocations after the isolated nation’s failed rocket launch last week.

An incensed Spain has threatened swift economic retaliation against Argentina after it seized control of YPF, the South American nation’s biggest oil
company, in a move which pushed down shares in Spanish energy giant Repsol, the major sharehold

The man accused of killing 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in Norway last July has boasted of his actions in a statement at his trial in Oslo.

The man who carried out bomb and gun attacks in Norway last year which left 77 people dead has pleaded not guilty at the start of his trial in Oslo, where he arrived clenching his fist in a far-right salute and saying he did not recognise the authority of

Afghan soldiers have stormed a half-built tower block after heavy dawn fighting and killed six Taliban fighters, ending a brazen assault which heralded the start of their spring offensive.