Palash Ghosh

The president of Brazil Dilma Rousseff has introduced a program to eliminate extreme poverty in her country by 2014, as she had promised during her campaign last year.

The Libyan government said it will send a representative to the next OPEC meeting in Vienna on June 8, following the recent defection of the country’s former oil minister, Shokri Ghanem.

In tandem with the social buying website’s initial public offering filing, the chief executive officer of Groupon Andrew mason, wrote the following letter to stockholders:

Shaquille O’Neal, who announced his retirement yesterday after a stellar 19 years in the NBA, earned almost $300-million in salary over his career.

De Klerk, the last white leader of South Africa who negotiated Nelson Mandela to end of Apartheid, has alleged that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is seeking to establish and enforce black domination over racial minorities by chipping away at the constitution.

Abandoning Pakistan would be a “dangerous” step for the U.S., according to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Mullen.

The Greek government has agreed to reduce its budget deficit for this year by implementing a series of spending cuts amounting to 6.4-billion euros, according to an Athens official who spoke to Reuters.

A lawyer for accused war criminal Ratko Mladic claim their client was treated for cancer in a hospital in Belgrade Serbia two years ago, ahead of his first appearance in a UN court at The Hague in The Netherlands.

The outbreak of E. coli in Western Europe has led Russia to impose a ban on fresh vegetable imports from the European Union (EU).

The government of Libya claim that NATO air strikes on the country have killed more than 700 civilians and injured more than 4000 since the campaign commenced in March.

Flooding across parts of northern North Dakota has shut down all Amtrak passenger rail service between St. Paul, Minn., and Spokane, Wash. – a distance of about 1350 miles -- including all service in the entire state of Montana.

When Marilyn Monrow married Joe DiMaggio, the greatest athlete of his era, it was like the stars had realigned, the waters parted and the sea had changed.

Scottie Pippen's comments about LeBron James gets a response from the scoring leader

Private employers in the U.S. created only 38,000 jobs in May, a dramatic drop from the 177,000 jobs created in the prior month, and significantly lower than the 100,000 new jobs that economists had expected, according to a report from ADP.

Australia’s economy shrank by 1.2 percent in the first quarter of this year -- the sharpest quarterly drop in twenty years -- due largely to the devastating floods that swept across parts of the country late last year.

Speculation is rising that the cash-strapped Greek government is nearing an agreement with officials from the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank on then next round of bailout financing.

Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, had issued a general amnesty in a desperate effort to restore order to a country that has convulsed with rioting and violence over the past two and a half months.

The number of people killed or left homeless in last year’s earthquake in Haiti was much lower than claimed by the country’s leaders, according to a draft report commissioned by the US government.

British Conservative politicians are more attractive than their Labour counterparts, according to the results of a poll taken by a website that ranked Members of Parliament by their “sexiness.”

Ratko Mladic has arrived in The Netherlands, where the former fugitive and suspected war criminal will face charges if committing genocide, among other crimes, during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.

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A Pakistani journalist who had written about alleged links between the nation’s navy and the al-Qaeda terrorist network was found dead in an abandoned car near the capital city of Islamabad.

Unrest among ethnic Mongolians in northern China is deepening, a week after the accidental killing of two Mongolians in separate incidents have sparked unprecedented protests.

Parts of war-torn Libya controlled by Moammar Gaddafi are running out of food and medicine, according to the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for the country.

A war crimes court in Serbia has rejected an extradition appeal by the lawyers of Ratko Mladic, meaning the former army general will be transferred to a United Nations tribunal in The Hague to face charges that he committed genocide.

Oil prices, which have risen by as much as 20 percent this year due to fears of supply disruption caused by Middle Eastern and North African unrest; appear to be stabilizing in recent weeks.

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