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The Israeli goverment has approved a $214m investment plan for developing economic infrastructure, housing and transportation, and reducing violence in Israeli Arab towns.
United Nations: World's slums are growing
While more than 200 million people moved out of slum conditions in the past decade, the overall population of slums has risen by 55 million in the same period, a new United Nations report finds.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that an Iranian civil nuclear power plant, being built with the help of Russian experts, would be completed by this summer.
China has detained 53 villagers, who were suffering from lead poisoning, after the bus taking them for health checks was stopped by police.
A two-year-old rottweiler has been hailed as hero, after he chased off an Iranian illegal immigrant who had sexually assaulted a young woman in a park in the UK.
A British expat living in Australia has become the first person to be officially recognized as genderless.
A new Turkish law makes it a criminal offence for a woman to go abroad and get pregnant via artificial insemination.
A British man and a female friend caught kissing in public in the UAE state of Dubai face up to a month in jail for indecency after a local mother reported her child had witnessed their indiscretion.
70 bodies of victims, killed by Nazis, found in mass graves under Austrian football pitch
Two mass graves containing about 70 bodies of people killed by the Nazis during the Second World War have been discovered underneath a football pitch belonging to the Austrian army in the southern city of Graz, Austrian government officials said o...
Two Mexican women became the first lesbians to wed in Latin America and Mexico's first gay couple, as they got married in Mexico City on Thursday.
"From 'tea party' protesters to antiwar advocates, Americans on all sides of the political spectrum seem angry about something. But for all the tumult, the disaffection today is far less than in many periods in the past." - Christian Science Monitor
Seven Muslims were detained today in towns of Waterford and Cork, in south of Ireland, for allegedly planning a plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's & wife's marriage in crisis, rumours say both having affairs
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy are both rumoured to have affairs, French media reports say.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez mocked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday as a "blond" version of her predecessor.
Iraqi authorities counted votes on Monday, a day after a parliamentary election in the Middle Eastern country. Preliminary results are expected in two or three days.
A Huddersfield man stabbed his ex-lover's mother to death as a revenge aimed at his ex-partner, left a message in blood behind and then lept to his death from a car park.
A British Chinook helicopter pilot was shot between the eyes by a Taliban bullet, but still managed to fly on and saved all 20 aboard.
German Roman Catholic priests beat and sexually abused boys in at least three schools in Pope Benedict's native Bavaria state on Friday, one linked to a renowned choir led by his brother from 1964 to 1994.
Vatican rocked by usher's gay sex scandal
One of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in the Vatican's St Peter's Basilica have allegedly been involved in an organized network of gay prostitution.
Millions of dollars of aid, from Western governments and charities, including Live Aid and Band Aid, intended to buy food for starving Ethiopians during the country's 1984 famine were misused by rebels to buy weapons, a BBC investigation has found...