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The Government has announced a A 270 million loan guarantee to car giant General Motors to help secure its Vauxhall operations in Britain.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the army to seal off the West Bank for 48 hours and tightened security around the old city of Jerusalem, Israeli officials said Friday.

Japanese authorities arrested an activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegal trespassing after he boarded a whaling ship last month in waters off the Antarctic.

Fighting erupted in Somalia's capital for the third straight day Friday in some of the worst violence in nearly a year, as government-backed troops shelled the front lines of rebels trying to advance into government-held territory.

A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 39 people in this eastern city and wounding nearly 100, police said.

The police chief of Paktia province, Azizudin Wardak, says insurgents launched an attack on a police post on the outskirts the provincial capital.

Gordon Brown pays respect to Iraq fallen at Basra wall

A series of strong aftershocks from last month's devastating quake rocked Chile on Thursday as a new president was sworn into office and immediately urged coastal residents to move to higher ground in case of a tsunami.

Thousands of people marched through Athens Thursday as part of a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest further austerity measures by the embattled government.

Some are surprised, but they shouldn't be. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, 70, has taken the title of the "World's Richest Man" from Bill Gates, 54, on the Forbes Billionaire List.

A director at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva has told BBC News that some mistakes were made in construction.

The five-year-old British boy allegedly kidnapped by gunmen in Pakistan has been found, it has been reported.

Plans for a high-speed rail network featuring 250mph trains will be announced by the Government.

A global Internet oversight agency is reopening discussions about whether to create a ".xxx" domain name as an online red-light district where porn sites can set up shop away from the wandering eyes of children and teenagers.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday renewed America's commitment to the recovery and reconstruction of earthquake-devastated Haiti, telling visiting President Rene Preval he knows the crisis has not passed.

At least three Swedish newspapers on Wednesday published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog after an alleged plot to murder the artist who created it was uncovered in Ireland.

A 23-year-old American activist i skilled by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza.

Indonesian counterterror authorities won international praise on Wednesday for killing a top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the deadly 2002 Bali bombings.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal.