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Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson says his first trip to Afghanistan left him feeling optimistic about reconstruction, but also aware that Taliban militants are determined to keep fighting.

Officials at the Australian airline Qantas say no corrosion was found surrounding a three-metre hole in the side of one of its passenger jets.

Beijing officials have once again assured athletes that the skies will be clear in time for the Olympic Games.

Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger is now 65, making him eligible for a U.K. pension equivalent to $180 Cdn a week.

A Manitoba teen is alleging police officers stunned her with a Taser three times in a jail cell following her arrest by RCMP earlier that evening.

The organic compounds found in soil provide a unique chemical profile and can link a suspect to the crime scene (full text available to subscribers)

Crown-of-thorns starfish, which can devastate coral reefs, are less common in Australian no-fishing zones

Many of the comets circling in the inner solar system might have been created in swarms when much larger ice-balls fragmented

Investors are increasingly placing big orders for stock in private "dark pools" – but how do you know the orders are actually there? (full text available to subscribers)

A model that mimics the movements of drunken crowds might help find ways to design streets so that they direct late-night revellers safely home (full text available to subscribers)

Arizona State Representitive Mark Anderson, a Republican from Mesa, has a long history of loyal and devoted service to Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed "messiah" and leader of the Unification Church. Moon's followers have historically been called "Moonies." Almost ten years ago the Mesa Tr ...

Have you ever been bothered by unwanted visitors at your door trying to sell you on their religion? Probably the most familiar and persistent door-to-door proselytizers are "Jehovah's Witnesses," a sect seemingly historically obsessed with "doom and gloom." Witnesses have an apparent fascination s ...

Chuck Anderson, the head of an unaccredited school called the Endeavor Academy (EA) in the Wisconsin Dells, is dead. He was 83. Often referred to as a "cult leader" by his critics, Anderson's followers called him instead their "Master Teacher" (MT). The self-styled “miracle worker” (see photo ...

Yisrayl "Buffalo Bill" Hawkins, self-styled prophet and religious entrepreneur runs an operation called the "House of Yahweh" (HOY) near Abilene, Texas. Recently featured in a segment on ABC 20/20 and interviewed on CNN Nancy Grace, Hawkins held forth on the fate of the world, predicting with alleg ...

New York Times editors and researchers have selected a fugitive sex offender as an official resource about polygamists. Anton Hein, a former U.S. resident and registered sex offender with an outstanding warrant issued for his immediate arrest regarding a parole violation, runs a Web site called "Re ...

DHAKA - A shallow, 4.9-magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Bangladesh early Sunday, meteorologists said.

KABUL : Germany's foreign minister met Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday for talks that touched on Berlin's decision to boost its troops in Afghanistan to 4,500 next year, the president's office said.

AHMEDABAD, India : At least 29 people were killed and over 100 wounded Saturday in a string of more than a dozen coordinated bomb attacks in the tinderbox western Indian city of Ahmedabad, officials said.

AHMEDABAD, India : At least 15 people were killed and scores wounded Saturday in a string of coordinated bomb attacks in the tinderbox western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday, officials said.

WASHINGTON: A Uighur separatist group has taken credit for a deadly bus bombing in Shanghai in May and warned of new attacks in China during the Olympics, a group monitoring terror threats on the Internet said Friday.

Authorities report at least 29 people dead and more than 100 injured following 16 separate explosions in and around Ahmedabad

Before leaving Islamabad, Yousuf Raza Gilani says that security issues will be high on agenda during visit

Some pundits question appropriateness of Democratic candidate being given what amounts to presidential welcome

Legislation establishes $300 billion fund to provide more affordable loans to homeowners

Senator Jack Reed calls Republican strategy in Iraq a 'blank check' that America cannot afford

Law firm Brodies LLP is closing the gap on Scotland’s big four in the industry after another leap in profits.

Four British Airways executives, past and present, could be charged with price-fixing and face up to five years in jail, according to a report last night.

Senior bankers at UBS pulled $21 million of their own money out of the collapsed auction-rate securities market while continuing to tell clients their money was safe, according to charges from the New York Attorney-General.$

US regulators have accused a Dutch trading business and three senior employees including its British head trader of manipulating energy futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex.)

Ian Norris, the former chief executive of Morgan Crucible, is facing extradition to the US on charges of obstruction of justice.

A report by scientists from The Netherlands published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org/) identifies a compound in human saliva that greatly speeds wound healing. This research may offer hope to people suffering from chronic wounds related to diabetes and other disorders, as well as ...

For the first time, a consensus of diabetes and metabolic disorder experts have recommended a comprehensive treatment regimen for patients with pre-diabetes. The recommendations call for specific guidelines on both lifestyle, and pharmaceutical intervention where appropriate. The recommendations are ...

Thousands more children and adults with type 1 diabetes could benefit from 'life-changing' insulin pumps, following new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance issued on Wednesday 23rd July 2008.[i] The new guidance recommends insulin pumps for children younger than 1 ...

Culturally tailored health education appears to help improve some clinical outcomes in the short-term for minorities with type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Reuters Health reports. The study noted that language and cultural barriers can ...

Adults with Type 1 Diabetes who live in Ontario will get their insulin pumps free, says the Ontario Government. This is part of $741 million in new funding on a comprehensive diabetes four-year strategy to 'prevent, manage and treat diabetes'. Included in the strategy is an online registry that w ...

APIA, Samoa (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Fiji in a meeting of Pacific foreign ministers in Samoa on Saturday to ensure the country's military rulers held elections as promised in March 2009.

LAGOS (Reuters) - Gunmen in Nigeria released eight foreign oil workers seized from a vessel off the Niger Delta on Saturday but eight other people abducted in separate incidents were still being held, security officials said.

Wafa Amr, a Jordanian, has been working for Reuters in Jerusalem since 1994 with a focus on the Palestinian Territories. She lived in Gaza intermittently between 1994 and 2000 and the last time she was there was in mid-2005. The following story recounts her first visit since before Hamas took over t ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodians went to the polls on Sunday in an election overshadowed by a row with neighboring Thailand over a 900-year-old temple that has inflamed nationalist passions and led to troop build-ups on the border.

LONDON (Reuters) - Bosnia is closer to breaking up than at any time since its 1992-95 war and the European Union must do more to prevent its division, former international peace overseer Paddy Ashdown said.

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