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The International Olympic Committee will discuss whether to terminate the international leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay if the event, already marred by radical anti-Chinese protests in London and Paris, is disrupted further in San Francisco, the next stage, sources close to the situation said Tuesday.

The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday the worldwide losses stemming from the US subprime mortgage crisis could hit 945 billion dollars.

“Hopefully, the peace will last and everybody will be happy in the end”

A soldier's widow has succeeded in having sperm taken from his body and frozen four days after he was slain in Iraq, though medical experts said it's highly unlikely she would be able to bear his child. via Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

The government of the world's most populous Islamic state says YouTube has two days to take down a Dutch lawmaker's provocative film on the Koran or it will block access to the popular video-sharing Web site.

The warning by Indonesia came as the U.N.'s primary human rights watchdog ended a month-long session amid allegations by Western member-states and non-governmental organizations that Islamic nations are working to curtail free speech.

“It's going to be very exciting”

At a troubled time in U.S.-Russian relations, there were no frowns when Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush got together for their last time as presidents.

Beginning with a warm handshake, the leaders were beaming as they began what was billed as a social dinner with their wives at Putin's retreat on acres of rolling woodland that stop at the shores of the Black Sea.

Putin took his American visitor on a walking tour down to the water. First lady Laura Bush trailed a few steps behind so photographers could focus on the two presidents, striding side by side. Putin's wife, Lyudmila, was nowhere to be seen. Read more

British Muslims who plotted coordinated bomb attacks on trans-Atlantic airliners said in martyr videos they were seeking revenge for U.S. and British military action in Iraq and Afghanistan, a prosecutor said ...

In Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe's ruling party is deciding whether to contest a runoff election against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Friday ordered a nationwide freeze on raids against suspected Shi'ite militiamen, according to a statement issued by his office.

An outspoken Chinese dissident was jailed for three-and-a-half years on Thursday over his remarks about Tibet and other sensitive topics.

Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr called Thursday for a million-strong march in the shrine city of Najef against the U.S. occupation in Iraq.

The protest would be set next Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he is sending a battalion of extra troops to Afghanistan, declaring that they are "engaged for the long term."

A plane crashed en route to a mining region in southern Suriname on Thursday, killing at least 19 people, officials in the South American country said.

This is why I rant about how unjust globalization truly is. Not only does the incredibly low labor cost - much of which is due to a lack of oversight in factories - mean that not only do jobs go overseas, the people who get the jobs aren't even paid fair wages. So people who say we are "spreading the wealth" globally are either foolish or lying because they work for a corporation making $$$ off of the arrangement.

President Robert Mugabe's party lost control of parliament, the latest official results showed Wednesday, hours after the opposition claimed it also had won the presidency.

Kingston has one of the highest crime rates in the world Jamaica's poor have been abandoned by the government and left to the mercy of violent criminal gangs, Amnesty International says in a new report.

France may contribute "several hundred" more troops to reinforce the fight against the Taliban and their al-Qaida allies in Afghanistan, the prime minister told parliament Tuesday.

Britain's defense chief says Britain has postponed a plan to withdraw around 1,500 troops from Iraq.

Advisers of Zimbabwe's president and main opposition leader are discussing Robert Mugabe relinquishing power, The Associated Press has learned from someone close to the state electoral commission.

On a TV show aired Sunday on Hamas TV, a puppet child repeatedly stabs a puppet version of President Bush, killing him.

Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday. He was 65.