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Eric Eoin Marques Dublin: An Irishman alleged by the FBI to be the "largest facilitator of child porn in the world" can be...

Stephen Hawking   London: Renowned British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Wednesday launched an award for science communication that will bear his name. The "Stephen...

Cairo: Thirteen policemen will go on trial in Egypt next month after the beating to death of a man in custody in the...

  By Alastair Macdonald   BRUSSELS: European Union leaders will discuss over dinner on Thursday British Prime Minister David Cameron’s demands for reform of the...

Nouri Abusahmein   Tripoli: The president of the Libyan parliament that is not recognised internationally said on Wednesday that lawmakers preparing to sign a...

Sudanese refugees from Darfur stand amid tents as they gather during an open-ended sit-in outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)...

A Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet lands at Incirlik air base in Adana, Turkey, August 11, 2015.       NATO air surveillance likely to...

Qassem Soleimani   MOSCOW, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied on Wednesday reports that the commander of foreign operations in Iran’s...

Israeli soldiers check the bags of Palestinian women during a patrol in the West Bank city of Hebron, on December 15, 2015 (AFP...

Soldiers from the Saudi-led coalition secure a street pavement in Yemen's southern port city of Aden September 27, 2015. Reuters/Faisal Al Nasser   DUBAI:...

  Luxembourg: The European Commission has breached European Union law by failing to arrange for identifying harmful chemicals in everyday products, the EU's general...

Protesters on Avenue Habib Bourguiba, downtown Tunis on 14 January 2011, a few hours before president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the...

A group of men push a matatu to a nearby petrol station in Nyeri town, central Kenya on January 11, 2012       By Katy...

  PARIS: Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper whose staff was decimated by Islamic extremist gunmen, is giving nearly 4 million euros ($4.4 million) to...

  WASHINGTON: If the youngest giant panda cub at the National Zoo is stressed out about appearing in front of crowds for the first...

  Abidjan: Some 4,000 child victims of "slavery and exploitation" were removed from cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast between 2012 and 2014, authorities fighting...

Fouad Twal   Jerusalem: The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land called Wednesday in his Christmas message for Israel and...

Hyeon Soo Lim speaks during a news conference in Pyongyang in this photo taken in July. (Kyodo/Reuters)   TORONTO: Canada is dismayed at the...