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US West Nile deaths, infections rise at slower pace The number of West Nile virus deaths and infections continued to rise in the United States last week, but at a slower pace.

27 September 2012 12:31

Facebook Brazil to pay woman $1,500 over fake profile A Brazilian court said Wednesday it ordered Facebook to pay a woman user $1,500 in moral damages for failing to promptly remove a fake profile containing her name and personal data.

27 September 2012 12:11

Qatar calls for Arab intervention in Syria The emir of Qatar has called for an Arab intervention in Syria and a no-fly zone to protect refugees as President Bashar al-Assad's forces stepped up the battle for Aleppo.

27 September 2012 11:50

Britain faces more floods as hundreds evacuated Britain was bracing for more torrential rain on Wednesday as hundreds of people spent the night away from their flooded homes following two days of heavy downpours.

26 September 2012 16:22

Strong quake forces tourists to flee hotels in Mexico A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake rattled Mexico's Baja California peninsula Tuesday, forcing more than 1,000 tourists to flee their hotels and take refuge on beaches and in gardens.

26 September 2012 14:44

Eight die in Indonesia ferry sinking: official At least eight people were killed Wednesday after a ferry carrying more than 200 people sank in the waters off Indonesia's Sumatra island after colliding with a cargo tanker.

26 September 2012 13:09

Iran's president says backing gays is for 'capitalists' Supporting homosexuality is the stuff of hardline capitalists who do not care about real human values, Iran's president said Monday.

25 September 2012 16:57

Philippine Muslim rebels aim for peace plan Muslim rebels waging a decades-long insurgency in the southern Philippines in which more than 150,000 people have died are aiming to sign a roadmap for peace this year.

24 September 2012 17:59

More than half of Brazil population middle class Fifty-three percent of Brazil's population of 194 million is now middle class, as tens of millions of people are lifted out of poverty.

22 September 2012 10:23

French in the firing line after prophet cartoons Tens of thousands of French expatriates in Muslim countries face a nervous weekend amid fears they could be swept up in a rising tide of anger over controversial depictions of Mohammed.

20 September 2012 13:35

Cuban hunger strikers cry victory after prisoner freed Dissident Martha Beatriz Roque called it "a victory for the Cuban people ... and democracy" when the communist government bowed to the demands of hunger strikers Tuesday and freed a political prisoner.

20 September 2012 10:24

Syrian regime plans to use chemical weapons: report The Syrian regime plans to deploy chemical weapons against its own people "as a last resort", the former head of Syria's chemical arsenal told The Times newspaper in an interview published Wednesday.

19 September 2012 18:06

Chaos turns Syria into paradise for kidnappers Every time violence intensifies in Syria, so do abductions of civilians, for political reasons and more often for financial gain.

19 September 2012 14:24

Obama raps Romney on 'victims' comment Barack Obama said Tuesday presidents must represent all of America, not just their own core voters, capitalizing on Mitt Romney's gaffe that 47 percent of his countrymen were tax-dodging "victims."

19 September 2012 14:00

Romney rocked by secret video Mitt Romney was rocked Monday by a secretly filmed video in which he said nearly half of Americans back President Barack Obama because they are government-dependent "victims" who dodge taxes.

18 September 2012 15:18

Job strain boosts risk of heart disease by 23 percent: study Workers who suffer job strain are 23-percent more likely to have a heart attack than stress-free counterparts, but the risk is far smaller than smoking or a sedentary lifestyle.

15 September 2012 10:30

US lawmakers question China organ transplants US lawmakers called Wednesday for pressure on China to stop the use of organs from executed inmates, as experts charged that transplants had become a business that may target prisoners of conscience.

13 September 2012 18:26

Tallest ever dog revealed in new Guinness Book of Records A Great Dane who towers 2.2 metres (7 feet 4 inches) on his hind legs is named the tallest dog ever recorded in the latest Guinness Book of World Records launched on Thursday.

13 September 2012 13:26

Hundreds jailed by 'fake' bomb detectors in Thai south Implicated by the wand of a "bogus" bomb detector, Hassan became one of hundreds detained in Thailand's insurgency-racked south because of equipment that experts say is useless.

13 September 2012 11:06

US faces 'utter defeat' in Afghanistan: Taliban US forces face "utter defeat" in Afghanistan and Americans are unsafe wherever they go in the world, the Taliban said ahead of the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

12 September 2012 10:00

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