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The arrest over the weekend of Dominique Strauss-Kahn on charges of sexual assault has raised many troubling questions. Among them: does the IMF managing director have diplomatic immunity?

Iran and North Korea have shared ballistic missile technology which China has blocked, diplomats said.

There is a full blown bed bug epidemic happening all across America and it just seems to get worse with each passing year. For cities such as New York and Philadelphia which are at the epicenter of the outbreak, bed bugs have become an important political issue.

In an attempt to rid their rooms of bed bugs, a Thai hotel may have inadvertently killed seven of its guests.

John Lipsky, the number two official at the International Monetary Fund, said on Thursday he will step down from his post when his term expires at the end of August.

A new study by the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) has highlighted the horror or rape committed by soldiers against women in the war-torn eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Amidst growing questions over the legality of the killing of Osama bin Laden, US Attorney General Eric Holder defended the commando raid that resulted in the death of the former al-Qaeda terror chief.

The European Union has imposed an arms ban on Syria, besides a freeze and visa ban on 13 top Syrian officials, including the brother of President Bashar al-Assad. Fifty-four Somalis trying to escape Libya are feared dead after an overcrowded boat with hundreds aboard capsized off the coast of Tripoli.

Palestine Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Monday that the Palestine Authority (PA) will not be able to pay the salaries of its employees on time this month due to Israel's hostile stand.

The killing of dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden has triggered a controversy - did it violate international law?

Happy Birthday, George Clooney! The original sexiest man alive turns 50 today.

Portugal's two key opposition parties signaled after meeting European and IMF officials on Wednesday they will back a 78-billion-euro bailout that is expected to consign the economy to two years of recession.

Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), has criticized the U.S. government for killing Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden without due process.

Portugal has reached a deal on a three year bailout loan with the European Union and IMF, caretaker Prime Minister Jose Socrates said on Tuesday.

Osama bin Laden was unarmed when US commandoes stormed his compound in northern Pakistan and shot him to death on Sunday, according to new details provided by the U.S government.

Shark diving brings approximately US$18 million annually to the Palauan economy, approximately eight percent of the country's gross domestic product. Shark tourism can be a viable economic engine.

In prepared remarks, US President Barack Obama said “the world is safer, it is a better place, because of the death of Osama bin Laden.”

Crowds in the Libyan capital of Tripoli set fire to the empty British embassy and vandalized the Italian embassy on Sunday, a day after NATO bombed Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi's compound in a suburb of the city.

The Syrian army has seized control of the Omari mosque in the southern city of Deraa, the focal point of anti-government protests that have roiled the country for the past six weeks.

More high profile defections from the Baath Party over the last two days have weakened Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad even as the world is keenly watching how the opposition’s planned ‘day of rage’ will unfold today.

Superman, the character long associated with 'Truth, Justice, and the American Way, is renouncing his U.S. citizenship in the latest issue of Action Comics.