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As the relationship between Afghanistan continues to erode, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has arrived in India for talks over strategic security agreements and development aid prompting allegations Afghan is taunting Pakistan by seeking rapprochement with its regional competitor.

The United States Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has openly and bluntly criticised Israel's foreign policy by blaming the Benjamin Netanyahu's government of being partly responsible for its growing isolation in the region.

Following widespread reports of unlawful uses of force by New York Police against Occupy Wall Street protesters, reports have emerged suggesting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned Wall Street to beware future revenge attacks from the hacker collective Anonymous.

Al-Shabab Militants detonated a car bomb in Somalia Tuesday in front of the education ministry in Mogadishu, killing at least 70 people and wounding dozens, according to officials, killing said. Among the dead were students and parents.

Hours after Knox was cleared of Meredith Kercher's murder the media frenzy that surrounded the trial and focused on the American student shows no sign of dying down.

Amanda Knox is free to return to the United States after she and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were cleared by a Perugian court of killing Meredith Kercher late last night.

After winning over the U.S. and the world with his 'Yes we can' slogan, Obama's next presidential campaign announces itself gloomier and harder than its precedent as a new poll suggest a majority of Americans expect him to be a one-term president, only, prompting the president to call himself an 'underdog.'

A hacker took over the Twitter account of Thailand's recently elected prime minister on Sunday, questioning her ability to run the country if she cannot even look after her own tweets.

Amanda Knox, along with her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, may have been acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher, but for many, the young American girl remains a bit of a mystery and the British student's death remains unsolved.

(Opinion) Why You Deserve to be Disappointed by the iPhone5. So the iPhone5 is coming to a store near you, maybe. Nobody knows for a fact when Apple are to release the mobile phone, although some have told us that the iPhone5 is actually out. It is not. Do not panic people.

Amanda Knox leaves Italy a free woman, but will she ever be able to mend her reputation?

Forces of the Libyan transitional government have launched what a frontline commander says is their final assault on the pro-Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte, after a two-day cease-fire.

Following widespread reports suggesting New York police arrested over 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters during their march across Brooklyn Bridge, Anonymous has posted several videos chronicling the event.

Fighting back tears an emotional Amanda Knox told the Italian court that she had nothing to do with the murder of Meredith Kercher as she will now spend the next few hours waiting to see if the jury will acquit her or uphold her 26-year prison sentence.

With criticisms against the U.S. efforts to block the Palestinian statehood bid and the UN Quartet's unwillingness to directly tackle the settlements issue growing, many accuse those leading efforts to renew peace negotiations of being biased in favour of Israel, leading to the country becoming more and more regionally isolated.

Pakistan is still hitting back at allegations from Afghan officials that its intelligence agency masterminded the assassination of Kabul's chief peace negotiator with the Taliban, threatening the region's stability and pointing the finger at their neighbour rather than looking at the lack of efficiency of domestic forces.

With Steve Jobs' resignation fresh in peoples memories, analysts have speculated that Time Cook's future as Apple's leader could be defined by the product he unveils at Apple's 4 October media event.

As the Occupy Wall Street movement entered its third week Saturday, New York police arrested more than 700 people who tried to march across the Brooklyn Bridge.

A senior leader of one of the largest Bangladeshi Islamic party has been charged with war crimes for his alleged involvement in the country's 1971 independence war against Pakistan.

In an incident that will definitely provide more fodder for anti-games activists, Mark Bradford, 46, of Plymouth, Devon, is accused of assaulting a 13-year-old schoolboy, after the latter killed his character while playing "Call of Duty: Black Ops", a computer game, against each other on the Internet.

The Bank of England will introduce next month a new £50 banknote, featuring the renowned 18th-century business partnership of entrepreneur Matthew Boulton and engineer James Watt.

As high profile Al-Qaeda leader Awlaki was killed in a strike on his convoy directed by the CIA and carried out with the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command's firepower, Obama it seems wants to prove he is in control when it comes to the war against terror, leaving little room for the republicans to attack him on the subject during the next presidential campaign.

Heavy fighting broke out Friday close to Somalia's border with Kenya as extremist al Shabaab fighters launched an early attack on the town of Dhobley before being forced to withdraw, according to reports.

Unconfirmed reports that Ibrahim was dressed as a woman as he attempted to flee Sirte, where the NTC fighters are currently fighting pro-Gaddafi forces emerged just after Mustafa bin Dardef a commander for the NTC's Zintan brigade said: "Misrata fighters contacted us and gave us the information that Mussa Ibrahim has been captured."

Yusef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor facing the death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity might be liberated after his lawyer told AFP on Thursday he is "optimistic" that the final verdict could see his client set free.

The U.S.-born radical Islamist cleric and accused al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki, wanted by both the CIA and the Yemeni authorities, has been killed in Yemen, the country's Defense Ministry announced Friday.

Typhoon Nesat has hit the southern Chinese island of Hainan, forcing 100,000 people to evacuate out of their premises after sweeping past Hong Kong and battering the Philippines causing 35 deaths.

With the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back on the main international agenda, the role of the UN quartet charged of facilitating peace in the Middle East by the UN and more specifically of Tony Blair has also been put on the spotlight.

Saudi Arabia plans to spend over $100 billion to build 16 nuclear reactors in an effort to meet its growing domestic energy needs, the kingdom's former Saudi intelligence chief and former ambassador to Washington said in a recent speech.