2009-11-16 14:19
Pressing for freedoms on China's own turf, President Barack Obama has said individual expression is not an American ideal but a universal right.
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Gunmen have killed at least 13 people in a Sunni village west of Baghdad, dumping their bullet-riddled bodies in a cemetery.
2009-11-16 14:19
The trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of tax fraud involving his media empire has been postponed to January.
2009-11-16 10:50
Iran has hanged a convicted rapist in a public square in the northern city of Qaemshahr in the Caspian Sea Mazandaran province.
2009-11-16 10:50
Salvadoran authorities have raised the death toll from devastating floods and mudslides to 192 as more bodies turned up in storm-ravaged areas of the country.
2009-11-16 08:33
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has issued an apology to thousands of British kids shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse.
2009-11-16 07:23
A driver has blown up his explosives-laden truck at a police station in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 3 people.
2009-11-15 23:28
Researchers have pinpointed the source of what is probably the worst mass poisoning in history, according to a new study.
2009-11-16 07:23
A British think tank says prison policies are failing to stop Muslim inmates being radicalised.
2009-11-15 20:38
Britain will apologise for shipping thousands of poor children, often without the knowledge of their parents, to its former colonies during the 20th century, the government says.