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London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on Britain and Sweden on Friday to let him freely leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London after a UN panel...

Bamako: Malian troops backed by UN helicopters stormed a UN police base in the city of Timbuktu and recaptured it from suspected militants who had seized it...

Mardin (Turkey): Turkey all but ruled out direct talks with Kurdish militants to end one of the worst periods of bloodshed in a three-decade insurgency on...

London: A sixth sperm whale has died on a British beach, the latest of nearly 30 to have become stranded in shallow waters on the coastline of Europe's...

Los Angeles: A skinny sea lion pup with a taste for the finer things in life turned up on Thursday inside a fancy San Diego restaurant, where it settled...

Harare: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has declared a state of disaster in most rural parts of the country severely hit by a drought, with 26 per cent...

Beijing: Chinese officials have issued warnings to seed dealers and farmers not to use unapproved genetically modified seeds in the country's main crop...

Yangon: Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party on Friday nominated Shwe Mann, one of the country's most powerful politicians, to head a...

Seoul/Tokyo: The United States has deployed missile defence systems that will work with the Japanese and South Korean militaries to track a rocket that...

Tokyo: A Japanese volcano about 50km (30 miles) from a nuclear plant erupted on Friday, shooting ash nearly 2km into the night sky along with fountains of...