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Russian president Vladimir Putin has said he will sign pardon for jailed former oligarch and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky "in the nearest future", according...

Saudi authorities behead convict over drug offence, making it the 76th in 2013. A Syrian man Hasan Mahmud al-Bash convicted...

Google now owns BigDog, a four-legged all-terrain robot developed for the US military. A robot that can climb muddy hills...

Brazilian senators have asked for Edward Snowden’s help during hearings about the NSA’s aggressive targeting of the country. Edward Snowden...

New York City police arrested a man and charged him with burglary, possession of  stolen property and criminal trespassing after a  tape...

Dramatic calls released by  police tell of a neighbor's desperate attempt to rescue two adults and a child from a...

Two United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in a car bomb blast in the north-east Malian town of Kidal. The...

(Reuters) - The United Nations sent its first delivery of humanitarian aid by air to Syria from Iraq on Sunday...

Rolihlahla At birth he was given the name Rolihlahla Mandela by his father, Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Henry, according to the...

Six years before his death last Thursday, Nelson Mandela took a look at Nigeria and expressed sadness at the political, economic and...

  Time has named Pope Francis its person of the year. “He took the name of a humble saint and...

  US President Barack Obama, right, Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt and British Prime Minister David Cameron pose for...

If you have ambitions of being one of the first people on Mars, listen up: A Dutch company says it is moving...

Jackie Turner turned to Craigslist for a family. (Photo provided by Jackie Turner) Craigslist can be a great place to...

  Anti-government protesters toppled a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine's capital and attacked it with hammers...

North Korea announced on Monday the dismissal of Jang Song Thaek, the once powerful uncle of leader Kim Jong Un, for what it described as...

"Satan himself lives here in San Pedro," a mortician from the second largest city in Honduras told The Guardian. "People here kill people...

A team of Russian cybercriminals have created a computer virus so sophisticated it can steal the money from any bank...

A three-year-old boy drowned his newborn twin brother and left the other permanently brain damaged as he tried to bathe them while...

Well I still don't believe they are Christians. No true Christian writes this way. I am sure you will agree...