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During the height of the swine flu panic, Afghanistan locked up its only pig. Yep, as a Muslim country, there was only one pig in the entire nation, in a zoo. He was sequestered for his own protection, but he's now been released.

Pakistan has completed its investigations into five suspects accused of involvement in last year's attack on Mumbai, and they are expected to be put on trial next week, the interior minister has said.

A British man died after falling from a fortress wall in Serbia during an annual music festival, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said.

North Korea is "seriously interested" in releasing two convicted American journalists but first wants the United States to acknowledge what Pyongyang sees as their "hostile acts," a U.S.-based scholar who visited Pyongyang said Saturday.

The head of Britain's armed forces has insisted that the Taliban is "losing" the fight in Afghanistan.

Thousands of people flooded the main bus and train stations in Urumqi on Friday, with many fleeing because of deadly ethnic violence that has rocked this western Chinese city in recent days.

L'AQUILA, Italy -- President Barack Obama said Friday the international community is "not going to just wait indefinitely" for Iran to renounce an interest in developing nuclear weapons.

A charging bull gored a young Spanish man to death today at Pamplona's San Fermin festival, the first such fatality in nearly 15 years.

The head of U.S. Central Command in Afghanistan warned that months of fighting lie ahead in what will likely be the biggest military operation there since the American-led invasion of 2001.

The two rivals for power in Honduras have started a dialogue through a mediator, but there was no face-to-face meeting or breakthrough to solve the political crisis sparked by last month's coup.

Fourteen people in the UK are now thought to have died after contracting swine flu - with dozens more critically ill with the bug.

An earthquake rocked southwest China on Thursday evening, injuring at least 336 people and collapsing 10,000 homes, state media said.

Three roadside bombs in Baghdad killed seven people on Thursday, part of a string of bomb attacks hitting targets in the Iraqi capital and across the ...

People stand around the crater caused by a bomb blast that killed at least 25 people, including several primary school students in the Mohammad Agha district on the main road from Kabul to the Logar province, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 9, 2009.

A suicide bomber on Thursday killed at least 34 people and injured 70 near a judge's house in northern Iraq, and two roadside bombs in Baghdad killed seven people, authorities said.

A computer security company says an additional wave of cyber attacks is expected to hit major South Korean Web sites later Thursday.

A powerful internet attack that overwhelmed computers at US and South Korean government agencies for days was even broader than initially realised: targets included the White House, the Pentagon and the New York Stock Exchange and other official websites in the most widespread cyber offensive of recent years.

President Barack Obama joined other leaders of the industrialized world Wednesday in backing new targets for battling global warming.

On Tuesday Palm officially announced plans to launch the Palm Pre in the U.K. and Europe "in time for the holidays." First to get the nascent smartphone will be the UK, Ireland and Germany (exclusively on O2), and Spain (exclusively on Movistar).

As the global recession continues to churn, Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday released his third encyclical, called "Charity in Truth," released as the G-8 summit begins in Italy.