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With India's population greater than that of the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh combined, the Roman Catholic church has urged the devout to increase the numbers of Christians in the country.

Shares in Burberry were up on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading ahead of the group's first half trading update, expected tomorrow.

Russia said on Tuesday it is close to finalising a huge gas supply deal with China, in what would be a landmark trade agreement, but while officials insist cooperation between the two wary neighbours is only set to improve, lengthy negotiations prove the distrust is still hampering the Sino-Russian relationship.

Despite its brutal crackdown on protesters and international calls to step down, the Syrian regime remains defiant, with the foreign minister Sunday threatening "tough measures" against any country that recognizes the newly formed opposition council.

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced his plan to bring ex-Soviet states into a "Eurasian Union" in an article which outlined his first foreign policy initiative as he is preparing his return to the Kremlin as the country's next president.

Catgate, which derived from a Theresa May's claim that a Bolivian immigrant avoided deportation due to his pet cat, has rocked the cabinet and the Home Secretary's credibility, with the judiciary even commenting on the affair.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has launched a stinging attack on the Zuma government by comparing it to the apartheid regime for its failure to stand up to China.

September 2011 saw ice levels in the Arctic Sea drop to the second-lowest extent on record, according to data released by NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

With Russia and China vetoing a UN Security Council resolution threatening action against Syria following the deadly and brutal crackdown on protests, cracks within the UN Scecurity Council are becoming more apparent.

The evening started a 6pm, with Tim Cook opening with a statement about his first Apple launch with him as the CEO and how it was a privilege of a lifetime to have worked there for 14 years.

Apple is tipped to sell 107 million iPhones in 2012, according to a recent note to investors written by analyst Bill Choi and reported on by AllThingsDigital.

A baby monkey is creating waves at the ZSL London Zoo -- for being born neon orange!

The European stock index futures fell on Friday, putting shares on course to record their biggest quarterly decline since 2008 following the collapse of the Lehman Brothers.

Typhoon Nesat has hit the southern Chinese island of Hainan, forcing 100,000 people to evacuate out of their premises after sweeping past Hong Kong and battering the Philippines causing 35 deaths.

Despite accusations by the U.S., the Afghan Taliban Haqqani terrorist network has denied being supported by Pakistan, according to CCN, raising questions over American accusations towards the Pakistani government's involvement with Pakistani terrorist groups.

Japanese blog Macotakara has reported that an executive from China Unicom apparently confired that the iPhone 5 - due to be announced by Apple next Tuesday - will support HSPA+, better known as 4G technology.

Millions of pounds worth of fake drug and medicines have been seized across the wold, with over half confiscated in the UK.

China is set to make a giant leap forward in its space program, when a space laboratory named Tiangong-1 will be launched into orbit this afternoon, atop a Long March 2F rocket.

With Apple's iPhone-focused media event just around the corner, police in Shanghai have confirmed the arrest of five individuals selling fake versions of the popular devices.

One of the reasons why Chris Christie is becoming the new Republican darling is his willingness to talk about foreign policy and to bring about the subject of American exceptionalism.

China will take its first step to having its own space station tomorrow, as it prepares to launch the Tiangong-1, or "Heavenly Palace" space laboratory.

While much has been said about China's determination to expand and modernize its military material, the Asian giant is also focused on developing its space programme and is about to launch its first space lab module, an unmanned prototype for a future space station, which could lead to a space race between Beijing and Washington.

At least seven people have died as Typhoon Nesat struck the Philippians' main island.

Global Economic Crisis: What Britain Must Learn From the Canadian Success Story. David Cameron has begun talks with Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper in a bid to gain a united front and swift action with Canada to tackle the debt crisis sapping confidence out of the European and North American markets.

For protesters still reeling from the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia, his death provides yet more evidence that the U.S. should abolish the death penalty.

Almost half (49%) of students consider the internet to be as importance as water, food, air and shelter in their lives, and more than half (55%) indicate they could not live without the internet, a study has found.

China's military has warned that Washington's multibillion arms deal with Taiwan would become a "serious obstacle" to U.S.-China military relations, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Apple has won a significant victory in its ongoing patent war with pretty much every other tech company in the world, securing 40 new patents in China, adding yet another layer of legal protection around its iPhone and iPad series of devices.

Japan's largest weapons supplier might have breached multi-million dollar supply contracts by not revealing until today that it was the victim of a cyber attack last month.

Proto feather fossils discovered in western Canada entombed in amber from the Late Cretaceous era support theories relating to dinosaurs, birds and evolution.