Why Kerala has India's biggest alcohol problem ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters began gathering in Bangkok on Friday for what they promise will be a non-violent "million-man march" in coming days to paralyse Thail ...

MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Corporal Jacob Turbett gave out a single groan of pain before the Taliban bullet, which had pierced his heart, ended his life. ...

The UN's top humanitarian official criticises Israel for linking the 2006 capture of one of its soldiers to the Gaza blockade. ...

An activist from New Zealand who boarded a Japanese whaling ship last month is arrested by Japan's coastguard. ...

Portuguese police have arrested a suspected member of the Basque separatist group ETA in Lisbon as he tried to board a flight to the Venezuelan capital Caracas, according to report ...

Sailors on board an Australian warship were exposed to radiation after another naval ship accidentally locked its long-range air warning radar onto the tanker during a refuelling s ...

Tens of thousands of soldiers and police officers are out in force on the streets of Bangkok this morning as crowds of protesters begin to stream toward the capital to joina a mass ...

Bangladesh win the toss and field first in Chittagong as England hand Test debuts to Steve Finn and Michael Carberry. ...

The first Mexican opera to deal directly with the country's drugs conflict stages its premiere in Mexico City. ...

Can an election be held in a land of refugees? ...

Thailand mobilises thousands of troops ahead of mass rallies by planned supporters of ousted former PM Thaksin Shinawatra. ...

New York City agrees to pay up to $657m (£437m) to thousands of rescue and clean-up workers at the 9/11 attacks site. ...

Former US President George W Bush's advisor, Karl Rove, says he is proud of waterboarding as he believes it prevented attacks. ...

Fraud allegations made by Ayad Allawi are likely to be part of an effort to save his political skin. Sunday's election was far from

What do humans and bonobos have in common? ...

Ivory Coast and Chelsea striker Didier Drogba is named African Footballer of the Year. ...

England will make a last-minute call on the fitness of Stuart Broad for the first Test against Bangladesh in Chittagong. ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Two European aid workers with Doctors Without Borders in quake-hit Haiti were kidnapped and held for nearly a week before being freed early on Thursday, ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Somali businessman linked to Islamist rebels who likely received a ransom paid for kidnapped French aid workers was a contractor for the World Food Pro ...

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A British Airways computer specialist charged with planning a suicide bombing had volunteered to work as cabin crew during strike action at the airline, a court heard yesterday. .. ...

Nine members of a Russian white supremacist group are jailed for up to 22 years in connection with the killing of an African man. ...

A prostitution ring linked to alleged corruption in the awarding of public works contracts for the G8 summit in Italy involved as many as 350 women, investigating magistrates said ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Five same-sex couples wed in Mexico on Thursday as Mexico City became the first Latin American city to defy religious taboos and macho stereotypes by legali ...

Turkey withdraws its ambassador to Sweden after the parliament votes to describe as genocide the killing of Armenians in WWI. ...

Three first-half goals see Juventus take command of their Europa League last-16 tie with Fulham but Dickson Etuhu's goal gives the Cottagers' hope. ...

Pressure on UK after arrest of ex-Bosnian president ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday named 10 charities to share his $1.4 million (929,503 pound) Nobel Peace Prize, with causes ranging from wounded veterans ...

Once again, Israelis are caught on camera in suspicious circumstances. ...

Kidnappers have freed two Swiss women aid workers who were snatched from the streets of Haiti's quake-hit capital and held for five days. ...

Police are trying to reassure New Yorkers that life-sized figures placed on rooftops by the British sculptor Antony Gormley are not people contemplating suicide. ...

Tonight the Deccan Chargers and the Kolkata Knight Riders will join battle in one of the hottest sporting events in the world. In a country of 1.2 billion people, most of whom are ...

Chile's new President faced his first crisis within moments of taking office yesterday as aftershocks rocked a country already devastated by last month's earthquake. ...

They have faced improvised bombs, been ambushed by guerrillas and shot at by al-Qaeda. Now, British troops training for their next battle with Afghan insurgents have been foiled by ...

A British freelance journalist has been released by the militant group Hamas after spending nearly a month as a prisoner in the Gaza Strip. ...

With their heavy woollen tunics and shiny brass buttons, Mumbai's firefighters would not look out of place tackling a blaze in Victorian London. Now the brigade is about to update ...

A four-day trip by Joe Biden designed to kick-start faltering peace talks between the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships ended in failure last night despite a parting plea for neg ...

About 200 people have been arrested and 49 charged with murder after massacres at three Christian villages at the weekend, police in Nigeria said yesterday. ...

Hundreds of Nigerian women protest over last Sunday's violence near Jos, where many women and children were massacred. ...

The mechanism by which thalidomide causes malformed limbs is revealed by scientists. ...

A student at a high school in Mississippi says the school board cancelled her school's prom rather than let her attend it with her lesbian girlfriend ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey recalled its ambassador to Sweden Thursday and cancelled an upcoming summit between the countries after the Swedish parliament branded the World War One k ...

Liverpool face an uphill task to progress from the last 16 of the Europa League after Eden Hazard's goal gave a lively Lille side a first-leg lead. ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's North Caucasus remained "an area of particular concern" in 2009, and the government's poor human rights record there worsened as it fought Islamist mili ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - In a macabre echo of the punishments Belgian colonials once meted out to their Congolese labourers, a faded bronze statue of the explorer who carved out the co ...

Who has profited from the web's biggest sites? ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China and Iran have stepped up their abuses of human rights, targeting both anti-government activists and the free flow of information over the Internet, the ...

Iraq's biggest secular political bloc claimed today that major fraud had blighted parliamentary elections. ...

Freedom of expression on the web has been curtailed in 2009, the US state department says in its annual human rights report. ...

Several governments have restricted freedom of expression on the web in 2009, says the US state department in its annual human rights report. ...

Liverpool take on Lille before Fulham play Juventus in the last 16 of the Europa League. ...

US and Israel dodge settlement confrontation ...

Politicians look away as Cyprus dies of drought ...

Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka is to be put on military trial next week, officials say. ...

The Italian Parliament has approved a law that will shield Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime Minister, from criminal trials for the next year and a half. The decision led to vociferous ...

REYNOSA, Mexico (Reuters) - A powerful drug cartel is buying off journalists in northern Mexico to work as spies and smother coverage of a spike in killings on the U.S. border in t ...

Sony last night fired its opening shot in the battle to oust Nintendo's Wii from the world's living rooms with the announcement of a new motion control system for its high-definiti ...

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