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The number of women prisoners, sentenced for crimes such as ‘fleeing home’ or ‘extra marital affairs’, has increased from 350 to 600 over the last two years, a new U.N. report has said.

China expects the number of people infected with infected with the AIDS virus will reach 780,000 by the end of the year, with most having contracted it through heterosexual sex.

Israel has launched an attack on the southern Lebanese town of Ayta Shaab in response to the firing of several rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel. No casualties have been reported.

Qatar will host the Conference of the Parties (COP18) climate change talks in 2012.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering releasing tens of millions of dollars in Palestinian tax funds, it has been reported.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference commences in South Africa, where it is hoped a new collective global agreement on climate change will be made.

An Arab League deadline for Syria to allow an observer mission into the country has passed, with Damascus failing to provide an official response.

An influential Iranian parliamentary said Tehran had arrested 12 US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) informants, just hours after it was reported that Hezbollah had also uncovered part of a US spy ring in Lebanon.

Despite months of protests the Syrian regime, Assad's inner circle has remained loyal and launched a brutal crackdown against the democracy movement, that has left thousands dead.

Libya's transitional Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib is poised to nominate a new cabinet on Tuesday that will be in office until next year, when the North African country will stage the first elections since the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in August.

Maltreatment of African workers in Arab nations has been highlighted by reports that migrants suffered human rights violations during the Libyan conflict.

Sarath Fonseka, a former army chief in Sri Lanka was jailed for three years, Friday for accusing the president's brother of ordering the executions of some Tamil rebels.

The Prime Minister, in his speech to the Lord Mayor of London's banquet, said the UK had limited goals in the pro-democracy campaign in Libya.

The international humanitarian watchdog, Human Rights Watch, has called on the Arab League to suspend Syria in the face of ongoing 'crimes against humanity'.

Nobel Prize Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is set to win Liberia's presidential elections after her main opponent Winston Tubman dropped out of the electoral race, but an outbreak of violence ahead of the vote has raised fears of anarchy returning to the streets.

In an overheard exchange with U.S. President Barack Obama at the G20 summit last week, French President Nicohlas Sarkozy allegedly called Benjamin Netanyahu a 'liar.'

A UN peacekeeper has been killed in Sudan's Southern Darfur and two other have been injured near the capital of South Darfur state, the United Nations said in a statement. It came less than one month after three peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in North Darfur.

The decline of the Euro has now made its impact felt on the price of milk and the cup of morning tea. The prices of milk, in the European Union (EU), rose in September, led by higher payments to farmers by dairies in Germany, France and the UK, as the Euro's decline boosted exports.

China has once again denied allegations of cyber-espionage, describing a recent U.S. report on online spying accusing the country of covert cyber-activity as "irresponsible."

Activists in Bahrain say that protests against the regime are on-going despite the targeting of civilians by the security forces. The Kingdom's forces are accused of arresting, and attacking civilians and the Bahrain Centre for human's rights ( BCHR) say that many protesters are being hit in the chest or heads, with several cases of protesters losing their eyes being reported.

Two boats bound for Gaza carrying medical supplies and messages of support from the U.S. have reached international waters after leaving Turkey on Wednesday.

As the International Criminal Court (ICC) is still trying to ensure that Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif will be brought to justice, the chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Occampo has also revealed that his office will investigate allegations of war crimes committed by the former rebels and NATO forces.

Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout has been convicted of selling heavy weaponry to terrorists by a U.S. jury in New York on Wednesday. Bout, a former Soviet officer who inspired 2005 movie "Lord of War" starring Nicholas Cage, was found guilty of trading arms to people he believed were Colombian rebels on the verge of attacking American soldiers.

Israel has announced it will instigate the building of 2,000 settler homes in the West Bank and freeze the transfer of Palestinian tax funds to punish Palestine for joining UNESCO.

Following the uproar caused by the Palestinian New UNSECO membership, an official has warned the outcome of the vote will "open the door" to 16 other UN agencies, a move which could further anger the U.S. and Israel.

Monday marks the end of NATO's involvement in Libya and one of the "most successful" operations in the history of the alliance. The IBTimes takes a look at the event s over the last 7 months that have led to the country's liberation.

According to media reports, both India and the Philippines have welcomed what they claim is the world's seven billionth person.

Moammar Gadhafi's son and onetime heir apparent, Saif al-Islam, fearing for his life, has taken refuge among nomads in the Sahara and is seeking an aircraft to fly him out of Africa to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, an official from Libya's ruling National Transitional Council says.

The International Quartet for peace in the Middle East is set to hold separate talks with Israeli and Palestinians officials in a bid to bring back that both sides to the negotiating table, after a year of stalemate.

According to the United Nations State of World Population Report 2011, the world's population will reach seven billion people by October 31 and could surpass 10 billion by 2083 pushing us to face new challenges and implications.