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Ten Japanese nationalists bring their flags to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands only a few days after 14 Chinese nationalists from Hong Kong do the same.

Though he denies it today, presumptive Republican Party vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan?s primary economic and fiscal influence was Ayn Rand, an extremely conservative thinker whose flawed economic and social theories were only outdone in perniciousness by her utter disregard for society and the common good.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange prepared to speak out Sunday on the standoff between Britain and Ecuador over his future by speaking from a balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, his refuge from arrest.

Two car bombs exploded in Libya's capital Tripoli early on Sunday morning killing at least two people, security officials said.

Myanmar government has set up a 27-member commission to probe the recent sectarian violence that killed dozens and displaced tens of thousands in the western state of Rakhine along the Bangladesh border, state media reported.

Raed, 21, is a wounded rebel fighter in the Syrian civil war now hiding from the forces of the country's President Bashar al-Assad. But the revolution he fought for, Raed says ruefully, has been hijacked.

The rags-to-riches, self-publishing story of "Fifty Shades of Grey" has garnered plenty of industry attention, with articles dedicated to how the phenomenon is sounding the death knell for printed books and traditional publishing houses.

The rumor-fueled exodus of the people of North-East India from the South Indian states continues unabated for the fourth day, as assurances of safety by the central and state governments fail to assuage the fear of impending attacks among the people.

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) accused the government on Friday of allocating coal blocks, power projects and land for Delhi's flagship airport at a fraction of market prices, potentially costing the exchequer tens of billions of dollars in lost revenues.

India bans mass texting service to contain the spread of false rumors regarding potential attacks based on ethnic conflicts, hoping to stanch an exodus from Bangalore and calm widespread panic.

Norway Chief of Police, Oystein Maeland, stepped down Thursday after a state-issued report harshly criticized the police's response during the 2011 Breivik Massacre that left 77 people dead.

Irate Chinese workers shouted "kill the foreign spies"

Hungary's best and brightest are feeling pinched by an increasingly demanding government.

34 miners have been killed and another 78 wounded during the Thursday clash between striking miners and police officers at a platinum mine.

The regime's newfound zeal for bilateral trade with China may reveal that new economic reforms are in the pipeline. But it also risks letting more North Koreans see that things outside are way, way better

For the first time since WWII, Germany has authorized the use of its military within its own borders.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is consider easing debt-laden Greece's bailout terms, triggering tensions with members of her coalition, who oppose giving the Greek government any more concessions, two German lawmakers said, according to a published report Friday.

Vitriol continues to be spewed in the case of Julian Assange, who is still stuck in the UK Ecuadorian embassy.

They see the economic crisis as a “wake up call” for Britain to rediscover its tradition of hard work.

Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's newly-nominated running mate for the GOP ticket, loves Rage Against The Machine. Unfortunately for Ryan, Rage doesn't love him back. Tom Morello, "The Nightwatchman" and the former lead guitarist of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave, called Paul Ryan's love of his former band "amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades." Morello published his thoughts in a column on Rolling Stone ...

Voters will have to take Mitt Romney's word that he paid no less than 13 percent of his income in taxes for the past 10 years. Romney has declined an offer from Obama's campaign to release five year's worth of tax returns.

Despite a speech from Madonna earlier in August condemning the way the LGBT community in Russia is treated, a Moscow court upheld a ban on gay pride parades in the Russian capital for the next century.

Three female members of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were convicted of hooliganism on Friday "based on motives of religious hatred and enmity," according to Judge Marina Syrova in Moscow. The trial was one of the most hotly debated Russian trials in recent years. Syrova is withholding sentences for the three women until later Friday, but state prosecutors, not to mention Russian President Vladimir Putin, have asked for a three-year prison sentence. The maximum sentence, under Russ...

India is under a mass panic over the ongoing ethnic violence in its northeastern state of Assam, triggered when four men from the Bodo community were killed in Kokrajhar district July 20 allegedly by the Muslims who were seeking revenge for the attack on two student leaders from the community.

The nation’s prison population soared to an all-time high of 67,161 this year, up from 50,000 the years ago.

A Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan Thursday, killing seven U.S. soldiers, three Afghan soldiers and an interpreter.

In a massive wave of coordinated bombings and shootings, more than 70 people were dead and several more injured across Iraq on Thursday.

Ecuador said Thursday night the Union of South American Nations has called an emergency meeting to discuss British threats to seize WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from inside its embassy in London.

The White House is "dusting off old plans" for a potential release of oil reserves to dampen rising gasoline prices and prevent high energy costs from undermining the success of Iran sanctions, a source with knowledge of the situation said.