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The Libyan government said PM Ali Zeidan has been freed by gunmen who abducted him from his Tripoli Hotel.

Greece's unemployment rate rose to 27.6 percent in July - from a downwardly revised 27.5 percent in June - data by the country's statistics service (ELSTAT) showed on Thursday (October 10).

British woman found dead in San Francisco hospital more than two weeks after extensive searches for her.

Militia group affiliated to the Interior Ministry, the Libyan Revolutionary Operations Chamber, claims responsibility for dawn operation at luxury Corinthian Hotel.

Lon Snowden says he hopes to see his son but has no idea about his whereabouts.

US postpones delivery of F16 fighter jets and will not supply M1A1 tank kits, Harpoon missiles and Apache helicopters.

Claims of fraud and vote rigging as president Ilham Aliyev prepares for landslide victory.

Foreign affairs officer says people must stop cooking to reduce air pollution.

Radical feminist group disrupts Madrid's lower house session over Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon's plan to reform liberal abortion laws

Uighur activists claim arrests are part of crackdown on their ethnic group in northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang

Ali Jannati slams former government's strict censorship rules according to Iran expert Golnaz Esfandiari

Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh says helping others is better than repeating Hajj.

UMP member Philippe Le Ray accused of sexism for interrupting a speech on pension reform emitting bird-like noises

Taiwan says China's military strength could soon allow it to surpass a possible US defence of the island nation in case of an attack.

Mishap is the latest to hit huge clean-up operation at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant.

Tibet's exiled rights groups say many injured in security forces crackdown in Dathang, Biru County

At least 10 dead in new fire on outskirts of Dhaka.

Letter from Donald Gray Sutherland donated to State Library of Victoria 133 years after the death of the man in the iron mask

President Obama will tip Yellen for top position later today.

Taliban tells Americans not to trust US politicians, who 'suck blood of own their people'.

Criminal turned worldwide celebrity and author dies from liver cancer aged 58.

US president calls on Republicans to end government shutdown and lift debt ceiling before any negotiations on fiscal issues.

U.S. President Barack Obama will nominate Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen to be the next head of the U.S. central bank on Wednesday, a White House official said on Tuesday.

Employees were working overtime according to reports.

Concordia's map official Simone Canessa tells Grosseto court Schettino took off his uniform before abandoning ship

Court finds activist guilty of involvement in mass protest on eve of Putin's inauguration.

YouTube footage showing toddler dancing to Beyonce's 'End Of Time' goes viral.

70-year-old man Kiyohide Kuroda arranged for "tea-drinking companions" to meet up and have sex.

What, or rather who, is the link between the small town of Muscatine, Iowa, and Zhengding County, Hebei, China?