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Dirty Harry himself nearly hijacked Mitt Romney’s presidential nomination with a rambling diatribe against Barack Obama – addressed to an empty chair.
Giuseppe Oglio’s farm near Milan looks like it’s suffering from neglect. Weeds run rampant amid the rice fields and clover grows unchecked.
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday promised to put a ”notable” brake on the country’s rapidly rising carbon emissions.
A US Airways jet with 155 people on board ditched in the frigid Hudson River off Manhattan after apparently hitting a flock of geese on Thursday.
Investors said good riddance on Wednesday to one of the worst years and prayed that rescue plans will pull the global economy out of its tailspin.
Another day, another batch of warning signs indicating the world will enter 2009 in the throes of a sharp economic slowdown.
The hit musical Rent closes on Broadway this weekend after 12 years.
Sixth seed Dinara Safina weathered a spirited challenge from Swiss teenager Timea Bacsinszky to win 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the third round of the US Open.
A music festival with heavy metal, punk and hip-hop might seem like an unusual place to get baptised, but Creation is a festival with strict rules.
Morocco and Western Sahara’s Polisario independence movement ended a fourth round of talks near New York City on Tuesday without narrowing differences on Africa’s longest-running…
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer faces pressure to resign on Tuesday as well as questions about whether he will be prosecuted for any crime after a report linked him to a…
Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat John Edwards abandoned their failing United States presidential bids on Wednesday, narrowing the race to two main candidates on each side…
Aid groups urged the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to set a 30-day deadline for Sudan to stop obstructing the planned January 1 deployment of UN-African Union…
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe accused United States President George Bush of ”rank hypocrisy” on Wednesday for lecturing him on human rights, and likened the US Guantánamo Bay…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with an United States university president who called him a ”petty and cruel dictator” at a forum on Monday where Ahmadinejad…
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki met ministers from world powers and neighbouring countries on Saturday after telling the United Nations secretary general he could guarantee…
Fuelled by last year’s Nobel Prize for a man nicknamed ”banker to the poor”, microlending to small businesses in the world’s poorest countries is booming as individuals discover…
Six new species, including a bat and two frogs, have been discovered in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in an eastern area off limits to scientists for decades because of…
The United Nations said on Friday it is investigating allegations of widespread sexual abuse by a unit of peacekeepers in Côte d’Ivoire and confined the soldiers in question to…
An 83-year-old steam pipe exploded underground in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, shaking buildings, creating a towering geyser of debris and sending people fleeing in scenes…
