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A forceful 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Chile on Wednesday off the country's south-central Pacific Coast, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Following the failure of the African Union Road Map proposal presented by South African leader Jacob Zuma to broker a ceasefire between Gaddafi and the rebels, NATO powers are upping their intervention in Libya in a bid to break the deadlock, which has seen the Libyan leader hold on to power defiantly despite weeks of air strikes and a rebel uprising.

A High Court judge will decide whether to lift the current ban on media identifying a woman who allegedly had a relationship with former RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin.

Temperatures are set to hit 25C on Thursday as the predicted heatwave hits Britain this week.

Amnesty International has been fighting torture and illegal imprisonment from its beginning. Since 1962 the group has denounced countries throughout the world where people are being detained and imprisoned arbitrarily without a fair trial, thus facing torture or other forms of ill-treatment while many are held in conditions that are so poor that these amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights no-one may be subjected to arbitrary ...

Since Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey yesterday revealed the U.K. Government's sponsored development of cyber weapons, a report from the Washington post has revealed that the U.S.A. also has a similar sponsorship programme currently under way.

British lawyer Peter Benson began the movement that led to the establishment of Amnesty International in May 1961 by issuing an "appeal for amnesty" on behalf of two Portuguese students who had been imprisoned for raising their glasses in a "toast to freedom".

Four people have been arrested after carers at a residential hospital were secretly filmed abusing adults with learning difficulties, police said.

As Zimbabwe's next elections, originally planned for 2011, are now called into question, the media in the West as well as in Africa announce that "divisions are re-surfacing in Zimbabwe's constitutional-revision process as the ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe has accused the Movement for Democratic Change of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of dragging out the process to postpone elections."

The Ministry of Defence today released the latest casualty figures for British servicemen and women serving in Afghanistan.

Two top security firms have reportedly been targeted by as yet unidentified hackers seeking information regarding SecurID authentication products and key government contracts.

Twitter executives will be requested to give evidence to MPs as debate continues to surround the use of injunctions.

Early in the morning of 26 May 2011, a force from Serbia's Security and Information Agency (BIA) captured and arrested Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic in the village of Lazarevo, about 50 miles north of Belgrade, the Serbian capital, to where he was promptly removed.

South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday confirmed that with the Libyan rebels and NATO setting Gaddafi's departure as the main condition for a ceasefire and with Gaddafi still refusing to leave, the talks initiated by the African Union did not lead to any breakthrough.

Almost three-quarters of the British public believe judges have been too eager to grant injunctions to wealthy celebrities, politicians and businessmen that protect their identity, an opinion poll has said.

Space shuttle Endeavour has landed in Florida and brought its 19-year operational career to a close.

In the wake of Sony's recent PSN disaster and the U.K. Government's increasing emphasis on the topic, Microsoft took the opportunity to add its two-cents on the question of cyber attacks at this year's Global Cybersecurity Summit.

A Twitter user has published claims about 14 injunctions allegedly obtained by high-profile performers, sportsmen and politicians.

A new website which invites members of the public to rate the sexiness of MPs, www.sexymp.co.uk, suggests that politicians from Northern Ireland are the least sexy MPs to sit in Westminster, while Green Party's Caroline Lucas can proudly boast that she is personally responsible for taking her party to the top of the sexiness table in the Mother of Parliaments.

A 58-year-old grandmother has been sentenced to three year's probation after pleading guilty to illegally downloading and sharing an estimated £54,000 worth of music

Colonel Gaddafi has, since he took over power in Libya more than 40 years ago, been known for being a bit of an eccentric character and as guide of the revolution has provided his people and the world with many words of wisdom. Between insisting on having female bodyguards, to trying to set up his tent in Central Park while he visited the United Nations headquarters, he has throughout the years never ceased to amaze us. In an attempt to understand the world according to the King of Kings of Afri...

After taking the matter up with Californian authorities, the U.K.'s Tyneside Council has successfully forced Twitter to hand over details regarding certain account holders.

A senior Egyptian general has admitted that "virginity checks" were performed on women arrested during the demonstrations of the Arab Spring in Egypt. The confirmation of the allegations, that were first brought up by Amnesty International, comes after the military authorities had repeatedly and firmly denied such claims.

A new ranking website that lets visitors choose the sexiest MP has become a huge online hit.

After Twitter recently announced its willingness to hand over user information, the ongoing injunction and super-injunction debate has seen another dramatic turn, as yet another Twitter user has published information regarding 14 privacy injunctions.

After UN Resolution 1973 was passed, coalition leaders promised "better days ahead for Libya" and pledged to "continue to act to help protect the Libyan people from the brutality of Gaddafi's regime" as well as to " support and stand by them as they seek to take control of their own destiny."

A generation of Britons believe they will never own their own property, a new survey has shown

The FA has released a statement calling for the FIFA presidential election to be postponed - and called for a 'genuinely independent' external party to look into how to improve FIFA.

In an interview with the Guardian, Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey has revealed the existence of a government funded cyber-weapon development project.