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When BBC Worldwide announced it was selling Lonely Planet to NC2 Media Tuesday, the first question was: Wait. Who?

It’s finally happening. Gandalf is going to marry Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, has returned to the classroom, in England.

An alleged, but unconfirmed, chemical weapons attack in Syria on Tuesday has the world wondering if a red line has been crossed.

Researchers found a correlation between pubic hair removal and a sexually transmitted viral infection called molluscum contagiosum.

The young assistant of popular U.K. artist David Hockney Sun. died mysteriously Sun at hospital. Dominic Elliott, 23, is being called a "close friend" of the artist's.

During his time, Tagore enjoyed considerable global acclaim on par with his Indian contemporary Mahatma Gandhi.

For the first time, China has become the world’s fifth biggest arms exporter a Sweden-based research institute said Monday.

Is a Buddha tattoo disrespectful to Buddha? Sri Lankan immigration officials think so.

The delegation of lawmakers from the Falkland Islands is in the U.S. to appeal to government officials to support the British territory's sovereignty claims disputed by Argentina.

At least 50,000 unborn baby girls are aborted each year in Nepal.

France and Britain will urge European Union nations to lift an embargo on supplying weapons to the Syrian opposition.

Maradona, now 52, is widely considered one of the greatest football players in history.

It is unclear what the Pope’s views on the Falklands are.

The heir to the British throne and the Duchess of Cornwall, are on an official visit to Jordan to examine the plight of the Syrian refugees housed there.

A Falkland Islands delegation is on a W. Hemisphere tour for international recognition of the islands as a self-governing U.K. territory.

India named 12 suspects in an alleged kickback scheme that may have helped the British helicopter manufacturer land a $750 million deal.

Is a massive “floating village” the answer to the U.K.’s economic woes? London Mayor Boris Johnson thinks so.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a flat open Wednesday ahead of the publication of a key retail sales report and import price index.

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, the last survivor of the failed 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler died Friday in his Munich home at age 90.

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