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Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mubarak's ex-PM to contest runoff for President

Mon, 28 May 2012 15:45:24 GMT

Three top candidates in Egypt's Presidential race filed appeals to the election commission ahead of the deadline on Sunday, alleging violations in the first round vote that they say could change the o...

Blair admits being too close to Murdoch

Mon, 28 May 2012 15:27:58 GMT

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a press ethics inquiry on Monday that he got too close to Rupert Murdoch's media empire, in evidence disrupted by a protester calling him a "war criminal"...

Pope's butler vows to help Vatican scandal probe

Mon, 28 May 2012 15:06:28 GMT

One of the Vatican's biggest scandals in decades has widened with the pope's butler - arrested for allegedly having confidential documents in his home - agreeing to cooperate with investigators, his l...

Four Britons, one Indian arrested over Bali 'drug ring'

Mon, 28 May 2012 13:55:49 GMT

Four Britons and one Indian national have been arrested on the resort island of Bali for drug smuggling, police said. The arrested men could face death under Indonesia's stiff anti-drug laws. Lindsay ...

Explosion hits downtown Nairobi, 28 wounded

Mon, 28 May 2012 13:42:29 GMT

An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 28 people, officials said. A blast in Kenya's capital immediately conjures fears that al-Sha...

India to provide $500mn line of credit to Myanmar

Mon, 28 May 2012 13:01:32 GMT

India on Monday announced that it will provide a $500 million line of credit to Myanmar as the two countries signed 12 agreements on a range of sectors, including air services. This would mark the beg...

Campaigning tests Obama's staying power

Mon, 28 May 2012 10:02:11 GMT

With Election Day five months off, the campaign increasingly appears to consume Mr. Obama's days and his White House, shaping his schedule, his message and many of his decisions. He is running against...

NATO aircraft crashes in Afghanistan, no fatalities reported

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:50:24 GMT

The US-led NATO coalition in Afghanistan has said that one of its aircraft crashed in the country's east, but no fatalities were reported.

UK phone hacking: Ex-prime minister Tony Blair faces grilling over ties to Murdoch

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:29:47 GMT

Tony Blair's decision to openly court Rupert Murdoch to win power and ensure favourable coverage during his decade-long tenure as British prime minister will come under scrutiny when he faces a media ...

Kofi Annan heads to Syria under shadow of massacre

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:18:16 GMT

UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan headed to Damascus on Monday in a bid to salvage his battered peace plan a day after the UN condemned the Syrian regime's use of artillery in a massacre that killed more than ...

Egypt to announce presidential poll result on Monday

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:05:19 GMT

Egypt's election committee will announce on Monday first round results of the presidential poll, an official said, after unofficial counts showed it would go to a run-off between the Muslim Brotherhoo...

Syria denies Houla killings, UN condemns attack

Mon, 28 May 2012 07:31:00 GMT

Syria on Sunday strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people - including women and children - in one of the deadliest days of the country's uprising, but the UN Security Council...

Monkey delays flight from New York

Mon, 28 May 2012 07:20:07 GMT

An escaped monkey in a plane's cargo hold delayed a flight from New York's JFK International Airport for nearly four hours, it was reported on Saturday.

Frustrations grow as US and Pakistan fail to mend ties

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:26:00 GMT

When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Pakistan's president at the NATO summit meeting in Chicago last week, the two spent most of the meeting talking politics, and Mrs Clinton was nothing...

Two Tibetans set themselves ablaze in Lhasa: Reports

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:13:49 GMT

Two Tibetan men have set themselves on fire outside a temple in Lhasa and one has died, reports said on Monday, as a wave of self-immolations in China's Tibetan areas spread to the heavily guarded cit...

Obama enjoyed pot as a school boy, claims book

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:09:06 GMT

Barack Obama inhaled. Frequently, happily and allegedly quite greedily. Various websites published excerpts on Friday from an upcoming book on the US president containing fresh details about his en...

Girl kept as slave, forced to pull horse-cart

Mon, 28 May 2012 05:57:42 GMT

A German girl has been rescued by Bosnian police after allegedly being held captive by a couple for eight years during which she was forced to eat pig feed and pull a horse-cart. A neighbour who raise...

Britons pay Indians to become surrogate mothers: Report

Mon, 28 May 2012 05:16:50 GMT

India's surrogacy industry is being used by Britons to become parents, a media report said on Sunday. There are now up to 1,000 clinics, all unregulated, in the country, many specialising in helping B...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange set for UK extradition verdict

Mon, 28 May 2012 04:34:05 GMT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out on Wednesday whether he can be extradited from Britain to Sweden, as the Supreme Court hands down its judgement at the end of a marathon legal battle.

Nepal crisis: Prime Minister calls for fresh polls in November

Mon, 28 May 2012 03:02:03 GMT

Nepal's prime minister called for new elections in November after the term of the Constituent Assembly expired at midnight on Sunday without political leaders completing the task of writing a new cons...

Video captures plane before it crashes, killing 4 in US

Mon, 28 May 2012 02:59:53 GMT

Security video captured a small plane taking off from a southern Utah airport just before it crashed about 300 yards from the runway, killing all four men aboard, a federal investigator said on Sunday...

Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks

Sun, 27 May 2012 13:56:07 GMT

The Vatican's inquisition into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler, but the investigation is continuing into a scandal that has embarrassed...

Elixir of youth? NASA invents drink that reverses signs of ageing

Sun, 27 May 2012 12:00:43 GMT

A "space drink" developed by NASA to protect astronauts from radiation can also reduce wrinkles and reverse the tell-tale signs of ageing in just four months, say researchers, following a human trial....

Former Mubarak aide sentenced to 7 years for graft in Egypt

Sun, 27 May 2012 11:05:06 GMT

A Cairo criminal court on Sunday sentenced ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's former chief of staff to seven years in jail on corruption charges, a judicial source told AFP. Zakaria Azmi was al...

Words to avoid online to stop US agencies from spying on you

Sun, 27 May 2012 10:22:22 GMT

"Cloud", "team" and "Mexico" - these are some of the words used by government spies to scour social networking sites and online media for evidence of threats to the US, it has emerged.