Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday abandoned his bid to topple Prime Minister Enrico Letta, saying he would vote to support the government in a humiliating climbdown after key allies rebelled...
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- Oct 3, 2013
- Updated: 1:10am
US President Barack Obama has scrapped scheduled visits to Malaysia and the Philippines due to the US federal government shutdown.
12:12AM
The video seemed clear enough, showing an apparently two- sided confrontation that escalated into violence.
9:51PM
A consortium led by Australian billionaire James Packer and US director Brett Ratner has struck a massive movie-making deal with Warner Brothers, with an eye fixed firmly on Chinese film fans.
Updated 1:02AM
Canada's foreign minister has warned Egypt that the detention of two Canadians without charges for the past several weeks is a significant threat to relations between the two countries.
9:35PM
Egypt's army chief has called for a quick transition to elections to restore stability to the country, while supporters of the Islamist president he ousted, Mohammed Mursi, staged daring protests...
Updated 12:54AM
A younger brother of the Sinn Fein party president Gerry Adams was found guilty by a court in Northern Ireland of raping and sexually assaulting his own daughter.
9:28PM
A terminally ill former member of the Black Panther militant movement, who spent 40 years in solitary confinement for murder, has been set free after a judge reversed his controversial 1974...
11:12PM
An estimated 10,000 walruses unable to find sea ice over shallow Arctic Ocean water have come ashore on Alaska's northwest coast.
9:19PM
A JetBlue flight attendant smuggled heroin, which was meant to resemble chocolate, under her uniform during a trip from Colombia to Orlando, Florida, federal agents say.
9:35PM
Marc Jacobs, the US designer credited with transforming Louis Vuitton from "stodgy luggage house" to global fashion giant, is leaving the company after 16 years, it was announced yesterday.
11:39PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played the spoiler to Iran's attempts to ease relations with the West, calling the Iranian leader "a wolf in sheep's clothing" and declaring that Israel...
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