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The wreck of the Titanic will now be protected by the United Nations cultural arm, UNESCO, the agency said Thursday.

Malaysia police arrested 13 members of a human rights group during a silent protest at the University of ...

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Senegal president offers repatriation to Haitian earthquake victims

Plan will make Japan Airlines solvent by 2011.

Report on role of Dutch government in invasion of Iraq concludes that there was insufficient mandate for support.

169 people have died as a result of the freeze during heavy snowfalls across Ukraine over the last ...

A man suspected of throwing two bottles filled with acid into a crowd was arrested by Hong Kong ...

Man charged with attempted bombing had contact with radical American-Yemen Muslim cleric al-Awlaki in Yemen.

The United Nations will withdraw some of its staff from Pakistan over security concerns.

The British have condemned China over the execution of a British man.

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Columbian Governor Luis Francisco Cuéllar Carvajal kidnapped from his home by armed rebels.

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