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Following the shuttering of underground drugs marketplace Silk Road, members are targeting the FBI for revenge.

Father escapes death penalty for beating son with electrical cord because he failed exams.

Fake front-page accusing Libyan PM of delivering al-Qaida militant to US went viral on Libyan social media before abduction

MP and LGBT activist Alessandro Zan describes the foul mix of inertia, bigotry and blind hatred that denies Italian homosexuals their basic rights.

Canadian Munro informed she won Nobel Prize in Literature by voicemail.

Worldwide PC shipments decline for sixth straight quarter but shows some potential for "near-term growth."

The Jonas Brothers have canceled all 19 of their shows.

Guarani tribe is reportedly seeing a surge in suicide by its people aged between 15 and 29 years.

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.