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Investigators on Saturday worked to uncover the motives of a Muslim US army doctor suspected of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others in a shooting rampage at a US military base. ... more
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Seven Afghan security personnel were killed in a mis-targeted NATO air strike in the remote northwest, the defence ministry said Saturday, signalling further trouble for a fraying Western military effort. ... more
US President Barack Obama made a last-minute appeal to lawmakers debating a mammoth health care bill Saturday, urging them to "answer the call of history" and vote for the most ambitious overhaul of its kind in half a century. ... more
Mexico's government issued a hurricane warning on Saturday as a strengthening tropical storm Ida bore down on the country's Yucatan peninsula. ... more
A disgruntled ex-worker shot dead one person and wounded five others Friday in the US city of Orlando, before shouting "they left me to rot" as he was hauled into custody, police said. ... more
Two Americans who traveled to Thailand on three occasions to prey on young boys in sex sessions they filmed and photographed were Friday each sentenced to more than six years in jail. ... more
Top-level political clout will now decide the outcome of the much-trumpeted Copenhagen conference on tackling the peril of climate change, now just a month away. ... more
The man who killed 12 people at a Texas military base Thursday is an American Muslim of Palestinian origin who joined the army against his parents' wishes ... more
Australia's resources boom is set to grow as Asian economies lead the global economic recovery, the country's central bank said Friday ... more
A seven-month old baby missing in Florida for five days, was found unharmed Thursday, stashed in a box under the bed of her babysitter ... more
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Thursday he will not seek re-election as he voiced frustration with the US position on Israeli settlements ... more
An international fisheries group set up to protect Atlantic tuna has done the opposite and driven one species of the fish, the bluefin, to the edge of extinction ... more
An Italian judge Wednesday convicted 23 US and two Italian secret agents for the CIA's kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003 under the covert "extraordinary rendition" programme. ... more
A year after his historic election President Barack Obama told Americans Wednesday he had saved the nation from economic ruin and launched sorely needed and far-reaching reforms. ... more
The Italian prime minister and politicians of left and right were united with the Vatican Wednesday in condemning a European court ruling that crucifixes displayed in schools are a breach of human rights. ... more
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