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Turkey, in an act of generosity has welcomed anxious Syrian refugees on Wednesday and urged Syrian government to stop violence against civilians after thousands of people abandoned a town near the Turkish frontier in fear of military assault.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday will meet allies to discuss the end-game for Libya, focusing on the looming question of the situations post Gaddafi reign.

A US agency has warned the eastern Horn of Africa of continuing food security crisis, a local media report said.They say, it is the 'World's worst food security crisis'.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday acknowledged the fact that the economy has slowed down, but offered no hint that the U.S. central bank might be considering any more stimulus to accelerate growth.

Social networking site Facebook has expanded the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos.

Lagarde, who is on a day's visit to India, met Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, and reportedly received a positive response.

A Soyuz spacecraft blasted off for the International Space Station on Wednesday with a Russian, American and a Japanese astronaut on board.

The most powerful pro-business voice in Brazil's government resigned on Tuesday following a scandal over his sudden enrichment, prompting worries on Wall Street that his departure could herald a leftward drift in economic policy.

Operating System giant Microsoft is rumored to unveil Xbox subscription TV service at the E3 in Los Angeles, a report said.

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A North German farm,Gaertnerhof Bienenbuettel, has been identified as the most likely source of the infection in the E.coli outbreak, that killed 22 people and affected more than 2,200 people, a local media report said.

17 militants in Pakistan's South Waziristan were killed in a missile strike by a suspected U.S. drone aircraft on Monday, said intelligence officials, following reports that a top Al Qaeda operative was killed in the region last week.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was recovering from an operation in Saudi Arabia to remove shrapnel from his chest, while a truce between his troops and a tribal federation appeared to be holding, a Reuters report said.

At 45, he has millions of followers. Largely a television and video Yoga icon, he has popularized yoga among a huge population of Indians and is also known to have propagated medicines for diseases like Blood Pressure and Diabetes and many more. He is out for a fight against corruption, going to the extent of a fasting till death.

Yemen's military blamed Al Qaeda for the rocket attack on the Presidential palace in Sanaa on Friday, which killed seven people and left President Ali Abdullah Saleh injured. The statement was made as an Internet posting on Sunday, reported Reuters.

China's Defense Minister sought to reassure Asia Pacific neighbors on Sunday that his country's growing economic and military power was not a threat, as long-running maritime disputes in the region flare up again, a Reuters report said.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is most likely to head International Monetary Fund (IMF), with backing of the United States and Japan, the Nikkei financial daily reported on Sunday, citing unidentified global financial industry sources in Washington, reported Reuters.

Regarded as one of the most dangerous militants in the world, Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al Qaeda operative,was killed by a U.S. drone aircraft missile strike in Pakistan, an intelligence official and local media said on Saturday.

Twin Franciscan friars, who were by each others side almost all the time from the time of their births, have died within hours of each other, a local media report stated.

A day after Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh got injured in an attack on his compound in Sanaa, local media reports state that he has left the country.

Facebook, Google and Akamai are among some 200 companies that will be switching to IPv6 during the World IPv6 day trial on June 8. The test which is intended to see how well prepared technology companies are to handle IPv6 addresses as well as what to expect when Websites are obliged to enable IPv6 in the future will be on for 24 hours, a report in pcworld.com stated.

British citizens in Yemen must leave the country on commercial fights as soon as possible to avoid being stuck up amid escalating violence in the Gulf state, Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned, a report in The Telegraph stated on Saturday.

The first ever helicopter attacks were employed by NATO to hit targets in Libya on Saturday, an alliance statement said.

In a major setback for Sony, hackers have once again broken into the security of Sony Corp's computer networks, this time claiming to have stolen customer data. With this, they have shown that the company's systems still remain attack-prone.

The Yemeni saga of unrest continues with forces loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh opening fire at protestors demanding an end to his three-decade-old rule in a conflict that has brought the state to the brink of a civil war, a Reuters report said on Friday.

Obnoxious and monstrous words is what former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic called the charges against him, declining to enter a plea at the Yugoslavia war crimes court, reported Reuters on Friday.

A study of the teeth of 19 australopithecines from South African caves suggests that females were the one to move out and away from their birth places, whereas, larger males used to stay back surprisingly close to their home and kin, a report stated.

Scientists investigating in to the killer E. coli strain in Europe have found that the bacteria combines a highly poisonous but common toxin with a rarely seen glue that binds it to a patient's intestines.

Squabbling continued in Japan's ruling party after Prime Minister Naoto Kan refused to step down, angering rivals who had voted down a no-confidence motion in return for a promise he would quit.