POLITICS

President Barack Obama made an address to the nation Monday about the increasingly dire debt crisis in which he warned that the Republicans' unyielding approach to the U.S. debt crisis was a "dangerous game" and urged Americans to press for compromise.

Australia police used pepper spray to overpower an aggressive kangaroo after it attacked a 94-year-old woman as she tended to the laundry in her backyard.

Breivik boasted about having friends in the EDL, and meeting "entrepreneurs and political leaders" in London.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair believes politicians must get their relationship with the media on "better footing".

The father of Anders Behring Breivik has said that his son "should have taken his own life", describing the attacks in Norway as "outrageous".

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A South African man presumed by his family to be dead woke up hours later Sunday in a mortuary in a rural part of the country.

In one of the many bizarre statements in his 1,500 page manifesto, Anders Behring Breivik, the man who killed nearly a hundred people in terrorist attacks in Norway on Friday, said he would be willing to work with al-Qaeda and Iran.

A Southern Sudanese official says northern Sudan has declared "economic war" by violating an agreement and issuing a new currency just weeks after the two countries split.

On Saturday, July 23, Norway was hit by two deadly terrorist attacks. In the first, a bomb exploded in Oslo's government sector, political analysts and commentators quickly started looking in the direction of an Al-Qaeda style Islamist group as the likely culprits in such a horrific attack.

Norwegian police are investigating claims by Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted carrying out Friday's twin attacks in Norway that he has "two more cells" working with him.

Britain took responsibility Monday for a NATO helicopter attack in Afghanistan which wounded five local children, voicing "deep regret" over the incident and saying an investigation was under way.Five Afghan children were injured in a strike carried out by a British Apache attack helicopter, the Ministry of Defence has said.

Anders Behring Breivik, the man who has admitted to committing the recent terror attacks in Norway, has made his first appearance in court, behind closed doors.

Samsung has denied allegations that unsafe working conditions in its chip production factories directly led to two employees dying of leukaemia.

For the past three years Breivik was writing his manifesto, delivering his account of what Norway should be, feel and look like. Cultural and religious purity seems to have been at the forefront of his thought when he was preparing the deadly attack.

According to a new speech by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Monday, the United States has no interest in creating permanent military bases in Afghanistan and does not want to use the country as a platform to influence neighbouring countries.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley believes pension changes to be "unrealistic", a leaked letter shows.

A new report from the U.K.'s Energy and Climate Change Committee on Ofgem's Retail Market Review has demanded that companies pay compensation after it discovered that numerous energy companies were mis-selling electricity and gas.

A Saudi Muslim scholar appeared on state-run Libyan satellite television on Monday to call for a fatwa (religious ruling) by key scholars in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries calling on the rebels in Libya to put their arms down and talk peace with the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.

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Tony Blair's protection when he gave evidence at the Iraq War inquiry cost taxpayers almost £500,000.

On Sunday, less than a day after two bullet trains collided in the south of the country, killing at least 43 people and injuring a further 210, eight mechanical diggers began to dig trenches to bury two twisted and broken train carriages.The crash occurred on Saturday night after a bolt of lightning hit one bullet train, causing it to lose power and grind to a halt. A second train then hit it from behind, causing six carriages to derail and two to fall off the side of the elevated tracks.

A lecturers' union have condemned a geographical, educational divide, after new research appears to show "two Britains."

Hacker collective LulzSec revealed a new, more mature side Thursday when it reported it was delaying the release of the News International-owned Sun newspapers' e-mails to ensure that the data didn't affect the UK's ongoing phone-hacking court case.

The Norwegian Prime Minister's office in Oslo has been hit by an explosion, shattering windows and causing "deaths and injuries", according to Norwegian police.

Asian nations hold talks on Friday to try and defuse two critical points of tension in the Pacific, in preliminary steps welcomed by the Obama administration, which China says is attempting to reassert its influence in the region.

An explosion has blown most of the windows of a seventeen storey building in the centre of the capital. There have been suggestions that the bombing happened at a government building which contains the offices of Prime Minster. There has been one confirmed fatality with up to nine people injured.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has visited former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, who has been detained in the West African nation since April.