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Hospital blunder only discovered after parents use DNA tests to settle marital dispute.

Footage showing Egyptian activists writing inflammatory graffiti goes viral on social media sites.

White House agrees in principle to release Taliban leaders as part of peace negotiations.

Antonio Vazquez Alba has predicted that Syria will be invaded this year, but refused to give any other details.

Syrian opposition's anti-Shiite militant group claims responsibility for kidnap of five Iranian workers outside Homs.

Rumours have it that her party planner sister Pippa and brother-in-law Prince Harry are making arrangements for a big bash for the Duchess of Cambridge on the occasion of her first birthday as a member of the royal family.

President Barack Obama addressed the Democrat Iowa caucus through live video conference from Washington.

Mitt Romney won the Republican Iowa Caucus just by eight votes.

A Youtube user, derDon1234, has posted a 10-minute video showing important events from 1911 to 2011.

Latest Republican Iowa caucus results show no clear favourite for November Presidential polls.

Alain Juppe says Iran should face tighter sanctions over controversial nuclear programme.

Kim Jong-il's funeral stage-managed right down to what grieving crowds could and could not wear, say sources.

Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party may hold referendum on peace treaties with Israel, a country it refuses to recognise.

Spectacular pictures show the moment that Afghan Police and British forces detonated nearly a tonne of explosives recovered during a major operation in Helmand Province.

The hacker cell of the Anonymous collective has followed up its previous assault in Finland, disabling the websites and publishing the members' names of several German neo-Nazi groups.

A group of computer hackers, thought to be from Saudi Arabia, claim to have stolen and published the details of up to 400,000 active Israeli credit cards.

Health officials confirm Hong Kong's brand-new government headquarters contaminated with potentially fatal disease.

The scale of human loss caused by the Iraq conflict has been starkly drawn by a report showing more than 123,000 civilian deaths over the nine year campaign.

Church of Scientology's David Miscavige accused of being tyrant who has strayed from principles of founder L Ron Hubbard.

Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum lead pack for 120,000 voters in Iowa caucuses.

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was the first to issue a decree in 2006 banning men from working in lingerie shops to end "embarrassment" suffered by women buying intimate items from the opposite sex.

Naseer Judeh has taken up an initiative to bring peace between Israel and Palestine.

Sahar Gul was tortured and locked up in a basement for resisting an attempt to force her into prostitution by her in-laws.

Peace talks resume with first face-to-face meeting in more than a year.

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Egyptian ballot overshadowed by deaths of 17 people in clashes between army and protesters.

An ultra-Orthodox man was arrested recently on charges of sexual harassment after he verbally abused a woman Israeli soldier for not moving to the back seat of a public bus.

The job of 39-year-old Natalie Thomas involves the checking of the softness of the guests' beds.

Some of the Muslim MPs had consumed the meat which was served in the restaurants with the assurance that it was “halal”.