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Perth, Jan 2: Australia's defending champion pair of Mark Philippoussis and Jelena Dokic, on Sunday, set high expectations for their team ...

ROME, JANUARY 1: An unprecedented attack in the form of a 20 metre-long banner reading `Baggio: We hate you', displayed by Inter Milan fan...

DHAKA, DEC 18: Nobel prize-winning economist Dr Amartya Sen was awarded an honorary doctorate of Science degree on Saturday by Dhaka Unive...

DEGGENDORF, DECEMBER 2: Police in Germany have arrested three 14-year-old pupils for allegedly planning a bloodbath at their school, pros...

JAKARTA, NOV 26: Indonesia's human rights investigator has said at least 25 bodies have been discovered in three mass graves in East Timo...

BANGKOK, NOV 24: Myanmar on Wednesday reopened the Thai-Myanmar friendship bridge to trade and travel after shutting all border passes wi...

MOSCOW, Nov 24: The Russian air force in Chechenia on Wednesday used a break in poor weather conditions to mount a massive wave of strike...

KUALA LUMPUR, NOV 24: A Malaysian court on Wednesday dismissed an application by an Opposition party from the east Malaysian state of Sab...

BEIJING, NOV 17: Courts across China are preparing to put at least 300 practitioners of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement on trial...

BEIJING, NOV 5: The Chinese government on Friday called for the complete elimination of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement on the s...

COLOMBO, OCT 27: Sri Lanka's police and army on Wednesday arrested more than 120 suspected criminals in the capital in a huge pre-electio...

COLOMBO, OCT 27: Sri Lanka's police and army on Wednesday arrested more than 120 suspected criminals in the capital in a huge pre-electio...

HAMILTON (NEW YORK), OCT 20: Venice is sinking ever more quickly into the canals that give the historic Italian city its unique charm, re...

MOSCOW/GROZNY, OCT 20: Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Wednesday held a crisis meeting about military operations against rebel forces ...

RAMALLAH, OCT 20: The safe passage corridor linking the Gaza Strip with the southern West Bank will finally open next Monday, Sufian Abu ...

BEIJING, OCT 11: A woman adherent of the banned Falun Gong meditation sect was beaten to death while in police custody in eastern Shandon...

DILI, OCT 10: East Timor spiritual leader Bishop Carlos Belo on Sunday appealed to the international community to pressure Indonesia to f...

WASHINGTON, OCT 9: The State Department announced on Friday that one of the suspects in the August 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Dar-...

FILDERSTADT, (GERMANY), OCT 7: US Open champion Serena Williams is attempting to break into men's tennis by reportedly asking for a wildc...

FILDERSTADT, (GERMANY), OCT 7: US Open champion Serena Williams is attempting to break into men's tennis by reportedly asking for a wildc...

SEATTLE, OCT 7: She came out swinging, and nastier words by a female athlete were never printed on the sports pages of the venerable New ...

SEATTLE, OCT 7: She came out swinging, and nastier words by a female athlete were never printed on the sports pages of the venerable New ...

OCTOBER 1: A powerful earthquake struck central Mexico on Thursday killing at least 18 people, injuring more than 40 and badly damaging a...

TEXAS, SEPT 21: A Texas jury Monday convicted a second man accused in the brutal dragging death of a black man in a case that stunned the...

BERLIN, SEPT 17: In the twilight world of espionage the idea that spy chiefs from rival East-West intelligence agencies could actually me...