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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon warns Senegal he is concerned about upsurge in violence in country in run-up to elections.

Artefacts that were stolen from the National Museum of Iraq and archaeological sites during the chaos following the U.S. occupation in 2003 have been returned by Germany.

Pressure is mounting on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as the opposition claims to be in control of half of the country

Aisha Gaddafi, the daughter of late and deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has contacted the International Criminal Court concerned about the fate of her captured brother, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.

India's scheduled War Games with United States, Russia, and Bangladesh to show off its powers.

Newt Gingrich asks rival conservatives to stand aside in Republican primaries so he can fight on against Mitt Romney.

Lightsaber-wielding assailant jailed for 45 days after attacking Toys 'R' Us customers and police.

Crumbling sanitation and water infrastructure blamed for sharp spike in typhoid as 50 new cases a day reported.

Vladimir Putin goes to presidential polls monitored by live-feed webcams to fight corruption allegations.

US president fails to answer penetrating question about marijuana legislation during online interview.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange due to appear in supreme court to fight extradition to Sweden on sex charges.

India's decision to buy 126 French-made Rafale fighter jets for its airforce may boost re-election chances of Nicolas Sarkozy.

Egyptian Bedouins kidnapped 25 Chinese workers in Sinai and demanded release of relatives jailed for bomb attack. .

US soldier in Afghanistan jailed for 30 days after assault over sleeping on sentry duty ended in tragedy.

New music scene emerges, fusing energy of rap with devotional sound of Islam.

What on earth has happened to the Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan? Since the departure of George W. Bush the party seems to have become the preserve of mediocrity at best and crankery at worst.

Security expert Rik Ferguson tells IBTimes UK that copyright legislation is very real threat to Britain's online freedoms.

Giselle Bündchen and Adriana Lima might be some of Brazil's most well-known faces but not all women have the model's traditional size 0 body.

French law banning denial of Turkish army genocide angers Reporters Without Borders.

Obama was on an hour-long video chat on Google’s social networking site Google+ “hangout”.

Complications set in after Caroline Lovell, who called for legal protection for home midwives, gives birth to second child.

A subpoena demanding the Twitter information of an account associated with the Occupy movement has caused outrage among activist and hacktivist groups online.

Health authorities recall condoms given away for ANC's 100th birthday party celebrations but activists fear large number still in circulation.

Facebook is, for most of us, a rather harmless, if addictive, pastime. There are, however, darker sides to the popular social networking Web site.

The Internet, most of us will know, is a notoriously unsafe space. Brandon J. Bergthold has been accused of trawling Craigslist, looking for fathers willing to pimp their young daughters.

Republican frontrunner tipped to win Florida but victory may come at a price as criticism mounts over attack ads on Gingrich.

Yad Veshem launches international seminars Wing as hunger fior Holocaust education continues to grow.

Anti-Acta petition attracts more than one million signatures in less than a week.

UK ignores protests online and offline and accepts Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, leaving it just five signatures shy of universal EU approval.