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A Somali aid worker seized by gunmen along with two Westerners in northern Somalia was being questioned by police about the kidnappings, the Danish Refugee Council said on Wednesday.

He warned that the US and other western nations will likely face consequences for their support of Libyan rebels who toppled Gadhafi.

Three big defense contractors posted solid profits on Wednesday, but their shares fell on concerns that leaner budgets would hurt performance.

At least five people were killed, including three Iraqi soldiers, and another 22 wounded when two car bombs and a roadside bomb exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, hospital and police sources said.

President Obama told Jay Leno during his visit to the Tonight Show Tuesday that you never like to see anybody come to the kind of end that Muammar Gaddafi did, but that his death sends a message to other dictators.

Electronic Arts' first person shooter Battlefield 3, released on Tuesday, has been a hit with video game critics.

Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim were buried in a secret desert location on Tuesday, five days after the desposed Libyan leader was captured, killed and put on grisly public display.

Wikileaks is unable to collect donations through normal channels and shuts down to deal with its finances.

The Arab Spring of pro-democracy uprisings features prominently -- both directly and more subtly -- in the selections at the third annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival, kicking off in the Qatari capital this week.

While the humanitarian tragedy arising from the quake will not occupy the hearts, minds and bodies of the local population – the longer-term struggle between Kurds and Turks will likely not abate.

Four Blackwater Worldwide guards asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a lower court ruling that dismissed their indictment due to tainted evidence.

The recent bankruptcy of solar energy company Solyndra raises questions regarding its relationship with the U.S. Department of Energy, which allegedly modified a loan agreement to prevent the tettering company from going under. The incident casts a shadow over the solar energy industry, already a controversial field.

President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops (by the end of 2011), in the briefing room of the White House, on Oct. 21. He further said that the United States would fulfill its promise of pulling troops out of Iraq.

EA DICE is just hours away from the official release of “Battlefield 3”.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Iran that the scheduled withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of 2011 should not be mistaken for a lack of commitment to democracy in the region.

Hundreds have died and thousands remain trapped after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Turkey, and survivors are calling on the Turkish government to provide aid, including food, shelter and medical supplies, as aftershocks continue to rock Ercis, Van and Celebibag. Turkey is frequently hit by earthquakes, but many feel the call for better building regulations and search and rescue strategies has gone unanswered.

Foreign investors eager to snap up development projects in key oil producer Iraq are unlikely to balk after the United States withdraws all its troops at the end of the year as long as security does not deteriorate.

The death of Moammar Gadhafi has definitely clarified one piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is the global oil market: There is now one fewer issue to hinder production security in a host of oil hot spots.

As Muammar Gaddafi lay still unburied, Libya's outgoing premier said the coming days posed a crucial test of resolve for the new men of power, who are wrangling over the body, and about a formal end to the war.

When Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril announced Moammar Gadhafi's death Thursday, he began with the words: We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. That must have made many in Libya and in the U.S. feel very good: it never hurts to be reminded that justice exists.

NATO called an end to its air war in Libya, and the clan of Moammar Gadhafi demanded a chance to bury the body that lay on display in a meat locker after a death as brutal and chaotic as his 42-year rule.