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The U.S doctor who helped Octomom Nadya Suleman deliver eight babies in 2008, will have his medical license revoked next month, a TMZ report said.

Agustin Carstens, Mexico's central bank chief believes that he is better qualified than his main rival to run the International Monetary Fund owing to more experience and better knowledge of the institution that he has, he told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday.

41 civilians die as Syrian forces attempt to crush pro-democracy protests, a human rights lawyer said on Wednesday, as opposition leaders met in Turkey to plot the downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reported.

At least 19 people have been killed this week and multiple explosions rocked the streets of Yemen's capital-Sanaa, with renewed fights between a powerful tribal group and President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces, officials said on Wednesday, reported Reuters.

At least one person was wounded when a blast hit a hotel used by rebels and foreigners in Libya's rebel-controlled eastern city of Benghazi on Wednesday, a Reuters report said.

A woman who loved deeply, and strove to perfect her craft, who was playful, funny and impossibly charming, Marilyn Monroe, died a mysterious death at a very young age of 36. Known to be the iconic sex symbol of Hollywood cinema, the actress in spite of a very short tenure in the glamor world, made her work memorable for generations.

Germany will shut all its nuclear reactors by 2022, parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government agreed on Monday, in a reaction to Japan's Fukushima disaster that marks a drastic policy reversal, said a Reuters report.

Tight security was installed at parts of Chinese capital's vast northern region of Inner Mongolia on Sunday after news of a possible protest by Mongolians spread via internet.

At least 14 civilians were killed in southern Afghanistan when an air strike led by NATO troops attacked on Sunday said NATO and Afghan Officials, reported Reuters. Many of the killed were children.

Atleast 11 civilians were killed and many wounded when Syrian forces led an attack in a widening military push into central Syria to cut down protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday, a Reuters report said.

A day after six Italian peacekeepers were wounded by a roadside bomb on a U.N. convoy in Italy, it said it wants to reduce its contingent in a peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, an Associated Press report said on Sunday

Tranquility returned to Yemen's embattled capital on Sunday, hours after armed tribesman and President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces reached a truce to halt clashes which threatened to plunge the state into civil war, a Reuters report stated.

The persistent drought that has been affecting many southern China regions, kept the country's National Meteorological Center, maintaining its Yellow Alert high, say reports.

Cucumbers, believed to have been imported from Spain, claimed lives of atleast ten people so far, and left hundreds sick in Germany, said a BBC report on Saturday.

The attackers of the Saturday's blast in Afghanistan that killed the Chief of Afghan Police, were wearing police uniforms at the time of attack.

One of the most powerful men in North Afghanistan, the Aghan Police chief Dawood Dawood got killed when a suicide bomber attacked on Saturday, reported Reuters.

A NATO aircraft destroyed guard towers at Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli , and later staged a rare daytime air strike on the Libyan capital, stepping up pressure on him to quit, a NATO official said, reported Reuters on Saturday.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and the SarahPAC team will begin a trip through the nation's rich historical sites, starting from Washington, DC and going up through New England, stated Sarah Palin's official website posted on Thursday.

On the first day of the G8 Summit, the presidents of the European Commission and council and the leaders of the Group of Eight countries seemed primary to be focusing on the political situation in Middle East and North Africa, the debt crisis within EU and Japan's post-quake reconstruction, reported news.xinhuanet.com on Friday.

The bill dealing with the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya gave rise to a heated debate as lawmakers voiced frustration over the lack of an end in sight after 10 years of war, a Reuters report stated on Wednesday.

A suicide bomber killed 24 people in Pakistan on Thursday in the latest militant attack since the death of Osama bin Laden which has angered Pakistan and led to a call for the United States to withdraw some of its military trainers, a Reuters report said.

US Lawmakers sent a clear warning to President Barack Obama about growing exhaustion over the war in Afghanistan on Thursday as they passed a defense policy bill authorizing $690 billion in military spending for the 2012 fiscal year reported Reuters on Thursday.

Japan's ruling party power broker Ichiro Ozawa is ready to challenge Prime Minister Naoto Kan, adding to the pressure on the unpopular leader as he struggles with the nuclear crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The United States will help Japan as it copes with the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, and tries to rebuild its state, President Barack Obama said on Thursday, soothing a rift between the two allies over the atomic disaster.

Eight U.S. troops were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the deadliest single attack on foreign forces in a month, the U.S. military said, reported Reuters.

A small air plane crashed near Faridabad, near outskirts of the Indain Capital, killing 10 people on Wednesday night, the local television channels reported.

A small air plane crashed near Faridabad, near outskirts of the Indain Capital, the local television channels reported on early Thursday morning.

American singer Lady Gaga's second album Born this way, that hit the market on Monday is widely expected to shake the market with huge sales and dominate the music charts irrespective of the criticisms it has received. Martin Kupp, professor at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin believes that such an unusual result comes from Lady Gaga's ability to vary how consumers relate to her brand, a report in Berlin Reuters stated.

US senators proposed further tightening sanctions on Iran reflecting fears that companies overseas, particularly in China, are evading U.S. penalties imposed last year for doing business with Iran, Reuters reported on Wednesday.