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Hazare has also urged the passing of dramatic electoral reforms -- including the right to recall a lawmaker.

Selebi remains free on bail. If, however, his two-day appeal fails, he will have to go to jail.

The two face possible prison terms.

The magazine will be temporarily renamed ‘Sharia Hebdo,’ for its next weekly issue.

The principal opposition party New Democrats, have called for early elections, warning that the referendum that Papandreou has proposed could endanger Greece’s membership in the European Union (EU).

French banks Credit Agricole, Societe Generale and BNP Paribas --all of which are believed to be heavily exposed to Greek debt-- are down more than 10 percent.

Townshend, now 66 years old, said he was opposed to unauthorized file-sharing because the internet is destroying copyright as we know it.

According to Japanese media, there are currently 126 prisoners languishing on death row.

During a speech on Friday in Wilmington, Del, Joe Biden repeatedly referred to his “future son-in-law.”

At year-end, Brazil’s GDP is expected to hit $2.44 trillion, just a hair above the $2.43 trillion figure for the UK.

Almost 60 percent of Greeks view the new EU agreement providing for a new bailout package as “negative” or “probably negative”,

At least three other western celebrities, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Seal and violinist Vanessa Mae also attended Kadyrov’s 35th birthday party.

Louis Schlamowitz, a retired 81-year-old florist, wrote letters and exchanged photos with the Libyan strongman for twenty years starting in the late 1960s

The yen just reached a post-war record against the U.S dollar – thereby placing great pressures on Japanese exports.

North Koreans in Libya are in a trapped in a diplomatic limbo. Their brethren in Tunisia and Egypt have also been prohibited from returning home.

Global unemployment now already exceeds 200 million, the highest level ever reported.

According to reports, of the 54 nations of the Commonwealth, three-fourths (41) have laws which ban homosexuality.

To augment his stature, Sarkozy has stood on boxes, foot-stools, even on his tippy-toes and reportedly even demanded to be photographed only among other short (or shorter) people

Halloween likely originated with “Samhain,” the most important festival of the Celts of ancient Ireland

The attack, which Turkish authorities believe was carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), occurred in the province of Osmaniye.

A recent column in Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper described Sarkozy and Berlusconi as “pygmies.”

A number of Tuareg have reportedly fled Libya for Mali and Niger and other nations since the Libyan rebels deposed Gaddafi.

Islamic Jihad -- which is not directly affiliated with Hamas -- said it will take revenge for the killings.

When his last term ended in December 2010, he enjoyed a record 80 percent approval ratings

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has urged both the company and labor unions to settle the dispute immediately.

A suicide car bomber on Saturday killed 13 troops and civilian employees of the NATO-led force in Kabul, including Americans and a Canadian, in the deadliest single ground attack against the coalition in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.

A court in Morocco has sentenced to death the man believed to be behind a deadly April bombing of a cafe in Marrakesh.

Gitanjali said it envisions having 75 ATMs in shopping centers, retail, temples and airports

Workers have been striking against Qantas' plans to restructure the airline, a move that is expected to result in almost 1,000 job cuts.