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The situation in Libya will be the first item on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's packed agenda during her latest around-the-world diplomatic tour, it appears.

Zara Phillips confirmed that she would be celebrating her big day in a dress designed by Steward Parvin a personal favourite with her grandmother the Queen herself.

Republican Presidential Nomination: Sarah Palin and Rick Perry Ready to Challenge Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney?

The raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan on the 1st May has been illustrated and pieced together for an 88-page graphic novel called Code Word: Geronimo.

Sarah Palin has dropped her biggest hint yet that she will run for the Republican nomination and fight President Obama in a national election in November 2012.

President Barack Obama will answer questions about the economy and jobs Wednesday during his first Twitter town hall meeting.But the president, known for his oft- lengthy responses to the shortest of questions, will not be confined to Twitter's 140-character limit. He is verbally answering questions from Twitter users, who were urged to use the hashtag #AskObama.

As a part of Anonymous Operation Anti-Security and to mourn the anniversary of the Sivas Katliamı, the RedHack hacker Group has claimed responsibility for a slew of hacks defacing 1000 websites.

The U.S. Secret Service is reportedly investigating the recent hack on Fox News' Twitter account that allowed hackers to post a series of fake tweets reporting President Barack Obama as dead.

People around the world are writing Happy Independence Day messages to their Twitter friends in the United States and abroad. It seems that this year, the world is backing the U.S all the way as even the most secular today wrote "God bless America."

As the hacking collective Script Kiddies calls itself an ally of Anonymous and its ongoing Operation Anti-Security, Anonymous remain strangely silent, leading to speculation whether Script Kiddies claims can be taken as fact.

Early this morning the hacked Twitter account of Fox News released a series of false tweets claiming that President Obama had been assassinated.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday responded to criticism as he assured that that his army and police would be ready to take over from foreign forces as planned despite a brazen assault on one of Kabul's premier hotels that left 19 people dead, including all eight attackers.

A mother of five from Iowa has emerged as one of the front-runners in the Republican race to take on Barack Obama in next year's US presidential election. So could Michele Bachmann end up in the White House, or is she just a new and more polished version of Sarah Palin?

Israel backtracked on Monday on a threat to bar foreign journalists from entering the country for 10 years if they board a new international aid flotilla that plans to challenge the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Aiming to convince senators of the viability of the Barack Obama administration's Afghanistan policy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday cited South Korea as a successful "investment" case. "You look at the decades of our investment in South Korea," she said, facing a barrage of questions in a meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee aimed at clarifying Washington's policy and progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

US President Barack Obama is expected to use a prime-time TV address to unveil plans for an initial withdrawal of thousands of US troops from Afghanistan.

Embattled Representative Anthony Weiner has told friends that he plans to resign his seat amid the controversy over his online relationships with several women, The Associated Press reports.

In the latest development of the conflict in Libya, it has been reported that rebels pushed deeper into government-held territory south of the capital on Wednesday. Their advance came as good news for the Alliance who suffered a series of political and diplomatic setbacks last week when both the US Defence secretary and the UK Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope attacked its military capabilities and operational skills.

Two men are being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and rob the soul singer Joss Stone, police said.

Pakistan's top spy agency has arrested five Pakistani informants who assisted the CIA ahead of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

Greece has become the lowest rated country in the world, falling behind nations such as Jamaica and Grenada after Standard and Poor's cut the country's rating by three notches. Greece now has a credit rating of CCC, down from its rating of B and it is expected to be reduced further. There is now growing frustration in Europe over the efforts being made by the Greek government with a default the most likely outcome.

Just as leaders from Nato members countries maintain that following the operation in Libya, Gaddafi's days in power are numbered, and as Nato officials this week insisted the operation was a success, US defence secretary, Robert Gates, today delivered a blistering attack on European defence complacency, declaring that organisation has "become a "two-tiered" alliance of those willing to wage war and those only interested in "talking" and peacekeeping".

Despite being accused by the West of trying to produce atomic bombs, Iran stays defiant and announced on Wednesday that it will shift its production of higher grade uranium to an underground bunker in order to triple its production capacity."This year, under the supervision of the (International Atomic Energy) Agency, we will transfer 20 per cent enrichment from the Natanz site to the Fordow site and we will increase the production capacity by three times," the head of Iran's atomic...

Barack Obama had quite a journey last week, but he was not the only person making international headlines. Here's a quick reminder of what was a busy week in international politics.

Barack Obama's visit to Ireland and the United Kingdom was a barely disguised electioneering stunt, which saw the U.S. President grasping vainly at cultural straws.

After bilateral talks and a much talked about barbecue, both held at Ten Downing Street, Barack Obama continued his three-day state visit to the United Kingdom with a joint press conference where he and British Prime Minister David Cameron answered questions posed by the press.

US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron are due to give a press conference outside 10 Downing Street. Follow it here on our live blog

Barack Obama is currently holding talks with David Cameron in Downing Street, with the conflicts in Afghanistan and Libya expected to be high on the agenda of the bilateral talks that are expected to last about 90 minutes.

The Icelandic ash cloud left British airspace early on Wednesday morning according to the air traffic controller NATS.

The government said on Tuesday that ash from an Icelandic volcano would not lead to the total shutdown of airspace despite the cancellation of over 250 flights across Europe this morning.