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Explosion on Gulf of Mexico oil rig

An explosion ripped through an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday dumping 13 people in the water, one of whom was injured, the

US officials to visit China for talks

US National Economic Council chairman Larry Summers will visit China next week for talks on bilateral relations, China announced yesterday.Summers and Deputy National Security Adviser ...

Abbas, Netanyahu relaunch peace talks

Israeli and Palestinian leaders launched their first direct talks in 20 months yesterday, starting the clock on a daunting one-year deadline to flesh out a ...

Hurricane Earl closes in on US East Coast

Hurricane Earl quickly closed in on a large part of the US east coast yesterday, as tens of thousands of people fled North Carolina’s barrier ...

Lonq queues at Afghan bank amid corruption claims

An owner of Kabul Bank, Afghanistan’s biggest bank, said yesterday branches were being supplied with cash to meet depositors’ needs as queues formed a day ...

Britain, Germany warn against Middle East talks failure

Britain and Germany threw their weight behind yesterday’s direct talks in Washington between Israel and the Palestinians, warning that “failure would be very serious”.Saying the ...

Russian held in Spain over deadly disco fire

Spanish police have arrested a Russian businessman suspected of being responsible for a fire that killed more than 150 people at a Russian nightclub last ...

Mozambique tense after deadly riots

Mozambican police patrolled the streets of the tense capital yesterday after President Armando Guebuza called for calm following protests over food and fuel prices that ...

God did not create Universe: Hawking

God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments in physics, British scientist Stephen ...

South Africa: negotiators urged to end strike soon

The South African government yesterday urged public-service wage negotiators to promptly find a “win-win” solution after unions rejected a revised offer to end a strike ...