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16 May 2012, 15:14
China may have sown the seeds of its next human rights row with the US even as it looks to end the current one over blind dissident Chen Guangcheng.
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16 May 2012, 11:59
Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney has won primary ballots in Oregon and Nebraska, partial results show, moving him a step closer.
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16 May 2012, 09:46
British prosecutors have accused former Rupert Murdoch aide Rebekah Brooks and five others of obstructing justice in the hacking scandal.
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15 May 2012, 15:04
Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1m countersuit against the New York hotel maid at the centre of last year's explosive sexual assault allegations, says a report.
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15 May 2012, 14:59
Francois Hollande has been sworn in as president of France at a solemn ceremony overshadowed by the catastrophic debt crisis the eurozone.
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15 May 2012, 07:27
Nato struck only "legitimate military targets" during its 2011 operation in Libya, authorities said, responding to a Human Rights Watch report.
15 May 2012, 07:27
The first survivors who were hit by gunshots during the shooting spree that claimed 69 lives last year in Norway have taken the stand at the trial of gunman Anders Behring Breivik.
14 May 2012, 12:37
A Panamanian man who watched his two companions die while surviving at sea for 28 days in their small boat has sued a US cruise line.
14 May 2012, 10:49
Chancellor Angela Merkel's party suffered a severe defeat in a pivotal German state vote likely to award her main rivals a major boost.
14 May 2012, 08:05
Rielle Hunter's life had a tabloid quality to it before she became a party to one of the biggest lies in American political history.
11 May 2012, 13:24
A judge has removed a protective order in the case of a 3rd-grader who was taken from his mother after he tipped the scales at 99kg.
11 May 2012, 11:41
A man pronounced dead following a car crash by paramedics who then left the scene has been discharged from hospital after recovering.
11 May 2012, 10:03
Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney has apologised for some high school pranks, but insisted he does not remember a reported assault.
11 May 2012, 07:50
More than 30 000 off-duty police officers marched through London and thousands of British public sector workers went on strike.
11 May 2012, 07:50
Gay rights activists around the world have hailed President Barack Obama's support for same-sex marriage as a symbolic victory.
11 May 2012, 07:50
Chinese media say a woman upset over the compensation she was offered for losing her home has blown up explosives strapped to her body, killing herself and two other people.
10 May 2012, 11:34
Indonesian rescuers have spotted the wreckage of a missing Russian Sukhoi Superjet that disappeared during a demonstration flight.
10 May 2012, 06:21
Barack Obama became the first US president to say publicly he was in favor of same-sex marriage, in a pre-election debate.
10 May 2012, 06:21
President Barack Obama is unpopular in some parts of the US, that a man in prison is getting 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's primary.
09 May 2012, 11:30
China's expulsion of an American reporter working for Al-Jazeera news network has drawn criticism from other journalists and the US.
09 May 2012, 07:26
The new style underpants bomb defused in Yemen has not lead to additional security measures.
08 May 2012, 13:07
Conservative Republican Rick Santorum has endorsed Republican presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney in an email to supporters, reports say.
08 May 2012, 08:25
The CIA has thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner.
08 May 2012, 08:37
Russian politician Vladimir Putin has been sworn in for a third term as Russia's president, as the former KGB spy cements his control.
07 May 2012, 13:57
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he won't lead his right-wing UMP party into June's parliamentary polls, as his campaign spokesperson conceded defeat in the presidential vote.