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Triple arrest prompts concerns that Vietnam is tightening grip on internet freedoms.

Apple iPhone's major supplier Foxconn hit by workers' riots triggered by personal rivalry.

Recycling had economic importance as a way to conserve lithic resources.

China makes strategic investments in Afghan mineral resources, copper mines and oil exploration and extraction.

Several Europeans among victims after disaster strikes on world's eighth-highest mountain.

Man arrested at Turin airport check-in carrying pilot's uniform and fake ID.

Campaign groups seek total ban on smoking in enclosed premises including restaurants, cafes and bars, where people are exposed to second-hand smoke.

The militias, feeling the heat of protesters, are vacating and leaving security to the government.

Free Syrian Army leaders claim they are moving closer to the action to take on Assad more effectively.

Drunk driver racing at 200km per hour mows down three boys and four girls enjoying a day off school.

Pakistan's railway minister invites Taliban and al-Qaida to kill anti-Islam filmmaker while government dissociates itself from his comments.

General Mohammed Ali Jafari, head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, says his country will wipe out Israel.

The first day of autumn arrived across the northern hemisphere on 22 September, heralding the end of one of the hottest summers since records began.

The Apple Maps app in iOS 6 reportedly shows two chains of disputed islands, one each for Japan and China.

Campaign groups believe the true number of child sex abuse cases is much higher than the church admits.

Swiss inquiry reveals that grenades pictured in newspapers were originally shipped to the UAE in 2004.

Protesters angry at militant group Ansar al-Sharia which is allegedly involved in the US consulate attack.

The Myanmar pro-democracy opposition leader urges for the release of three Pussy Riot members - but forgets the Rohingya

Iran militant group MEK, given refuge by Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war, removed from US State Department foreign terrorist organisation list.

Ex-soldier Klein Michael Thaxton is communicating on social network Facebook say Pittsburgh police, while holding a manager hostage

Klein Michael Thaxton, 22, took a manager at CW Breitsman Associates hostage claiming to have a bomb in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Republican hopeful, has 40 percent less Latin voters than Obama, appears suspiciously tanned on Spanish-language broadcast.

Reports suggest Brazilian organisers forced to return documents following personal call from London chief Paul Deighton.

Suheir Atassi and ex-SNC chairman Burhan Ghalioun admit internal divisions in the Syrian opposition to President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

UK physicists won an award for calculating the balance of forces that shape and move the hair in a human ponytail at the 2012 Ig Nobel Prizes.

Lazio councillors reveal use of public money to fund cars, holidays and semi-naked parties.

North Korea suspected of shipping weapons to support the Assad regime.

The militants opened fire on an IDF patrol stationed along the Israel-Egypt border but were killed.

Activists face €1m fine if they protest within 500 metres of any Shell property.