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Rio de Janeiro 2016 Games will be staged in four areas
The Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in four zones across the city, the Brazilian organizing committee has said. Plans for their...
Perseid Meteors Shower 2012: spectacular sky show expected this weekend
The annual Perseid meteors are expected to put on a spectacular sky show this weekend. Glare from a waning crescent moon may interfere with viewing. But...
Hillary Clinton arrives in Turkey for Syria talks
Hillary Clinton has arrived in Turkey for talks on the worsening crisis in neighboring Syria. The US Secretary of State will meet Turkish leaders as...
Gu Kailai admits murdering Neil Heywood due to a mental breakdown
Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced top politician Bo Xilai, has admitted murdering British businessman Neil Heywood and blamed her actions on a mental breakdown,...
Egypt’s Bedouin tribal leaders back Sinai offensive
Egypt's Bedouin tribal leaders in Sinai peninsula have agreed to help restore security in the lawless border area with the Gaza Strip and Israel. In...
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak stirs up islands dispute
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is visiting islands also claimed by Japan, in a move set to raise diplomatic tensions. Lee Myung-bak flew to the...
Lakhdar Bahrimi to be appointed as UN-Arab League envoy for Syria
Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi is expected to be appointed as the new UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, according to diplomats. If confirmed, Lakhdar Brahimi would...
Pentagon supports worm warrior project Meshworm for a potential military use
US engineers have created Meshworm, a robot that mimics a worm's movements - crawling along surfaces by contracting segments of its body. The technique allows...
Olympics 2012: Manteo Mitchell breaks his leg during 4×400 m race but still manages to finish
US sprinter Manteo Mitchell revealed he broke his leg half way round the track but still managed to finish the men's 4x400 meter Olympic...
Curiosity rover makes first color panorama on Mars
Curiosity rover has returned its first 360-degree color panorama from the surface of Mars. The robot used its wideangle science camera placed high up on...
Gu Kailai trial for Neil Heywood murder ends in Hefei
The trial of Bo Xilai’s wife, Gu Kailai, for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood has ended in the Chinese city of Hefei,...
Syrian rebels lose strategic district Salah al-Din in Aleppo
Syrian rebel commanders say they have lost control of the strategic Salah al-Din district in the northern city of Aleppo after a government offensive. The...
Food prices sharply rebounded in July due to extreme weather conditions
The UN food and agricultural body announces that global food prices sharply rebounded in July due to wild swings in weather conditions. The rise has...
Vietnam: US begins Agent Orange clean-up after 37 years since the war ended
The United States has begun a project to help clean up Agent Orange contamination at one area in Vietnam - the first such move...
Gu Kailai’s murder trial begins
Gu Kailai, wife of former high-flying Chinese politician Bo Xilai, has gone on trial charged with murdering British businessman Neil Heywood. Gu Kailai is accused...
Homo rudolfensis: new human species discovered among fossils from Northern Kenya
Researchers have discovered that fossils from Northern Kenya show that a new species of human lived two million years ago. The discovery suggests that at...
Curiosity rover lifts its mast and uses its high navigation cameras for the first time
NASA’s Curiosity rover has lifted its mast and used its high navigation cameras for the first time. The robot vehicle has returned black and white...
Syrian government forces take full control of strategic district Salah al-Din in Aleppo
Syrian government forces have taken full control of strategic district Salah al-Din in the biggest city, Aleppo, after fierce fighting, state media say. However, rebel...
Bo Guagua, Bo Xilai’s son, speaks out ahead of his mother’s trial
Bo Guagua, son of sacked Chinese politician Bo Xilai, says the "facts will speak for themselves" when his mother, Gu Kailai, goes on trial...
Egypt fires missiles on suspected Islamist militants in Sinai peninsula
Egyptian army helicopters have fired missiles on suspected Islamist militants in Sinai peninsula, security officials say. Twenty people were reported killed in Touma village, while...
Manila flood: at least 16 people have died as torrential rain left low-lying areas under water
Philippine officials say that at least 16 people have died in severe floods in the capital, Manila. More than 80,000 people are in emergency shelters,...
Pfizer pays $60 million to US government over bribe charges
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has paid the US government $60 million to settle charges alleging it paid millions of dollars in bribes to build its...
Paris catacombs: bones and skulls of 6 million dead fill 200-mile network of caves and tunnels
Below Paris' 12million residents lay the remains of 6 million others - known as France's Empire of the Dead, a world which is brought...
Vladimir Putin’s hand kissed by Russian Orthodox priest
Russian President Vladimir Putin reacts awkwardly as a priest bows to kiss his hand during a visit to country's northern Valaam Island. Vladimir Putin visited...
Olympics 2012: Team GB cyclists accused by French of cheating by using magic wheels
Team GB stormed to yet another cycling gold yesterday as the forlorn French said the British riders are hiding their “magic wheels” after the...
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