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A staggering 366 million people around the world are living with diabetes, and 4.6 million deaths happen because of the disease. Healthcare spending on diabetes has also reached $465 billion, according to new statistics released by a global diabetes authority.

Republican Bob Turner will be sworn in soon to succeed Anthony Weiner in Congress, representing New York’s Ninth Congressional District. He’ll be the first Republican to represent it since Seymour Halpern in the late 1950s.

Around 366 million people worldwide are affected with diabetes, reported the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).

The International Diabetes Federation has reported that an estimated 366 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes.

366 million people worldwide now have diabetes, the International Diabetes Federation says.

About 366 million people worldwide have diabetes and a person dies from it every seven seconds, world health officials said on Tuesday.

A report released Tuesday by the United Nation's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) showed that seizures of cocaine and amphetamine-type stimulants such as ecstasy and meth, have increased dramatically, with 592 kilograms confiscated in 2008-09 compared with 179.5 kilograms just six years prior to the federal findings.

The number of people with diabetes worldwide has reached 366 million.

Serbia warned the West on Tuesday that violence could flare if a plan to install Kosovo police and customs officers on the border with its breakaway former province goes ahead this week.

Gunmen shot dead four people in a bar in the northeastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri in the latest strike by a radical Islamist sect, police said on Tuesday.

Libyan transitional forces besieging a bastion of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday gave residents two days to leave before a threatened onslaught, and fears rose for the fate of civilians trapped in the last redoubts of the fallen strongman.

A timeline of Moammar Gadhafi's rise to power and this his fall from power.

Libya's interim leader has made his first public speech in Tripoli, warning against reprisals after Moammar Gadhafi loyalists struck out at the revolutionaries pursuing them.

The Obama administration and lawmakers are scrambling to preclude an upcoming United Nations vote that could grant the Palestinians formal recognition as a sovereign state.

Forces of Libya's new rulers were meeting ferocious street-by-street resistance Monday morning in Bani Walid from Moammar Gadhafi's forces, but were edging toward his birthplace of Sirte.

Libya's new rulers said they were holding back an assault on one of the last bastions loyal to Muammar Gaddafi but were edging towards the ousted ruler's birthplace of Sirte.

Libya's new rulers said Sunday night they were holding back an assault on one of the last bastions loyal to Moammar Gadhafi but were edging toward Sirte. Niger said Sunday one of the fugitive former leader's sons, Saadi Gadhafi, had turned up there.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde said on Saturday that reports of a draft IMF document showing a $273.2 billlion shortfall in European banks' capital were misleading and the lender was still finalizing its study.

International Monetary Fund resources could prove to be sorely lacking if global financial conditions worsen and more countries turn to the global lender for financial rescues, IMF staff said in an internal document.

South African President Jacob Zuma appointed evangelical pastor Mogoeng Mogoeng to the Chief Justice position on Thursday. But, the choice of Mogoeng, who will now hear the country's Constitutional Court, has already sparked fury in some South Africans.

A draft statement from the United Nations on addressing chronic diseases an upcoming summit served as a great disappointment after no mention of how to tackle and treat disease epidemics, an international health group said group Thursday.