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Islamist terrorist sect Boko Haram claims responsibility for suicide bombings on three Nigerian newspapers

North Korea's resources have dried up because of international sanctions and cessation of arms exports.

Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously estimated.

Under the Okinawa deal, the US will pull out 9,000 marines.

Brazilian sex professional Romilda Aparecida Ferreira to sue US embassy and three marines.

In what can only be described as a truly incredible video, a golden orb spider was caught feasting on a tree snake it snared in its web.

Tiny crystals allow computers to perform calculations at great speed.

Osama bin Laden's widows and children put on chartered flight to Saudi Arabia.

Researchers from the Health Protection Agency's Independent Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation have found no evidence that mobile phones are harmful.

Man chosen by Beijing as Tibet's second highest spiritual leader makes first appearance outside mainland.

Two new laws allowing men to have sex with dead wives and lowering the age of marriage to 14 have provoked uproar in Egypt.

Laxmi Sargara sought to have marriage annulled after discovering she was married at age of one.

Bombers target media outfits in capital of Abuja and northern city of Kaduna, killing 8 people.

Almost a year after the raid and killing of Laden, who was the master mind behind 9/11 terrorist attack on America’s World Trade Center, residents are leading their usual life in the picturesque, mountain city of Abbottabad.

Iran is a nation that is often said to be run by theocratic lunatics who want to "wipe Israel off the map" and deny the Holocaust but for once someone has spoken some words of sense about the Islamic Republic - a Lt. General from Israel of all people.

A video has gone viral on social media allegedly showing a man being buried alive by Assad's forces, he was accused of sending secret material to TV stations Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya.

Belarus, Ukraine and Russia marked the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion.

Special Court for Sierra Leone has found Liberian warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during civil war that wracked country.

A six-year-old Colombian boy nicknamed "Turtle Boy" because of his rare medical condition was successfully operated by a British plastic surgeon.

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor guilty of 'aiding and abetting' war crimes at Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.

Government in Manama dismisses rumours activist missing from hospital bed three months into hunger strike.

As Liberia's Charles Taylor considers his conviction, IBTimes UK traces background of the man who rose from political activist to warlord to president.

Alain Juppe says UN-brokered ceasefire has failed to halt violence in Syria and wants to move on to 'next step'.

Nasa's Dawn spacecraft finds iron and magnesium on Vesta.

PM escapes jail sentence for failure to reopen corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari.

Iran is considering a Russian proposal to halt nuclear programme to avoid EU sanctions.

China shows support for South Sudan as the latter's president visits Beijing to court Chinese leaders. Behind the relationship, a lot of oil exports to China are at stake.

Animal, mineral or vegetable: 450-million-year-old Kentucky fossil sparks debate among scientists.

Albert Einstein issued a list of conditions to first wife Mileva Maric to save their marriage for children's sake.