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After three years the newly-refurbished Victorian National Museum is reopening in Scotland since its formal opening in 1866, following a £47.4m refit.

A string of attacks on high profile figure of the Karzai government has recently proven the Taliban are decided to try and regain control over Afghanistan.In the last few weeks the confrontation between the fundamentalist goup and President Karzai has intensified, leaving the future of the country and the government uncertain.

Morrissey, never short of a controversy or two, has again courted criticism after he reportedly compared the actions of fast food companies to the recent attacks in Norway.

Suicide bombers armed with guns attacked at least two government buildings in the capital of Afghanistan's volatile southern Uruzgan province Thursday, killing three people and wounding 20, according to officials.Information that have emerged since the terrorist attack suggest that six suicide bombers stormed the provincial governor's compound and the police chief's compound in Tirin Kot, capital of Uruzgan located north of Kandahar, Interior Ministry spokesman, Sediq Sediqi, said.

BT has lost its battle against Hollywood as it has been forced to block web users in the UK from accessing an illegal download site, Newzbin2, following legal action by the Motion Picture Association (MPA).Newzbin2, is a web site hosted abroad which has up to with 700,000 members and provides an index of films, music and software available for free but unlicensed download from the peer-to-peer network Usenet.

House Republicans are decided to press ahead with a vote on a newly modified plan to avoid the dreaded government default next week, despite warning from the White House that President Obama could veto the plan with the backing of Senate Democrats.

In an effort to piece together the ‘’missing hours’’ leading up to the discovery of the late singers body at 4pm on Saturday (23 July), police are following up claims that the late singer had met up with a mystery man before her death.

South Korea forecasts even more rain as emergency workers are still entrenched in a battle against floods and landslides that have killed at least 41 people.The capital has been hit with the heaviest July rain on record, which triggered a mudslide in a residential area in the city's south on Wednesday and killed 16 people.

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Since Palestinian leaders have announced they will launch a Palestinian statehood bid in September at the United Nations Security Council, governments from all around the world have reacted to the decision, sometimes in a surprisingly passionate manner.

Vodafone has found itself in hot waters after rights group accused the giant mobile operator, which has 23 million of costumers in Egypt, questioned its "loyalty" to the Mubarak government during the protests that led to the ousting of the former leader.

In the last two weeks China has issued two warnings to the United States, indicating that despite previous move to increase ties between the two countries, suspicions and tensions still dominate the two giants' relationship.

A Mexican judge on Tuesday sentenced a 14-year-old U.S. citizen to three years in prison for homicide, kidnapping and drug and weapons possession.

Just a week before the Aug. 2 deadline for Congress to act, hope for a compromise between Republican and Democratic proposals, and with Washington looking stuck in an impasse, Washington the mood in the U.S. is becoming more and more tensed as the risks of a downgrade to the top-notch US credit rating are looming everyday a little bit closer.

The odds of winning the lottery are small. Very Small. The odds of winning it twice are near impossible. So imagine the surprise of one family when they went to cash in their third win.

Afghan officials say a suicide bomb attack has killed the mayor of the southern city of Kandahar. "An explosion ripped through in Municipality department of Kandahar city, the capital of Kandahar province this morning, killing Kandahar Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi," spokesman for the provincial administration Zalmai Ayubi told Xinhua.

Gaddafi is once again causing havoc it seems as coalition forces supporting the Nato-led operation in Libya appears to be at loggerheads with the International Criminal Court.Recent weeks have been marked by declaration from France, the U.K and the Rebels saying they could allow for Gaddafi to remain in Libya.

18 people were killed following torrential rain in South Korea, after the outpour triggered landslides flooded hundreds of homes, rescuers said on Wednesday.

A tropical storm killed at least 20 people in the Philippines, while nine people are still missing as huge amounts of rain that kept pouring down, causing major flooding and landslides, National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council chief Benito Ramos told reporters on Wednesday.

Over the week end, Algeria was forced to deny charges that a Libyan ship offloaded weapons for Muammar Gaddafi's troops at one of its ports.

New reports surrounding Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak's health have surfaced after it emerged the former leader, who is due to stand trial next week but is still hospitalised, is weakened because he has been refusing to eat and is only taking liquids, according to reports by the official news agency MENA.

With popular uprising in Syria refusing to back down, cracks in the establishment are starting to show.However unlike Tunisia or Egypt, it seems that despite months of popular protests the Assad family, in power in Syria for more than 40 years, is not yet ready to be ousted by the dissidents.

In response to the ongoing slew of successful hacks hitting U.S. military and government agencies Randy Vickers, the director of the US computer emergency readiness team, has stepped -down.

A Moroccan military transport aircraft crashed on Tuesday in the south of the country, the official MAP news agency said.

China has revealed new plans to increase government surveillance of its citizen's internet use, leading many security experts to question why hacker collective Anonymous hasn't taken notice.

China has revealed new plans to increase government surveillance of its citizen's internet use.

After facing public backlash over Saturday's deadly train crash, China's rail minister has ordered a two-month safety review of railway operations and apologised for the accident which killed 39 people, state media reported on Tuesday.

President Barack Obama made an address to the nation Monday about the increasingly dire debt crisis in which he warned that the Republicans' unyielding approach to the U.S. debt crisis was a "dangerous game" and urged Americans to press for compromise.

Australia police used pepper spray to overpower an aggressive kangaroo after it attacked a 94-year-old woman as she tended to the laundry in her backyard.