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A High Court judge allowed a locked-in syndrome victim in the UK to proceed with his right-to-die plea to end his life legally.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is entering into politics with an unpaid position as an advisor to the British government to help civil servants develop new innovative technology.

Merkel also condemned the murder of 16 civilians, including nine children, in Kandahar.

Iraqi and Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) officials finished contract negotiations, determining the No. 1 U.S. oil company will be paid in crude oil for the development of the country's large Qurna-1 oil field.

Indian cotton shipments will resume for previously registered sales, but the government ban on new cotton exports will remain in effect until a review within the next two weeks.

In a statement on their website, the group promised to take revenge against the American savages for Sunday's bloody rampage which left 16 Afghans -- including nine children and three women -- dead.

The latest strike comes after four days of attacks that began Friday when an Israeli strike killed two suspected militants accused of planning a cross-border attack via Egypt.

The Taliban vowed to avenge the deaths of 16 civilians killed in southern Afghanistan during a shocking shooting spree perpetrated by an American soldier.

Israel claimed it launched the attack to retaliate for prior rocket launches onto its territory by militants in Gaza.

Bodies in Homs were discovered hours after Kofi Annan, special envoy to Syria and former U.N. secretary general, left the country Sunday without a deal to end the bloody year-old conflict.

Finance ministers from euro zone nations are meeting in Brussels on Monday to discuss their likely final approval of a second package of rescue loans for Greece.

The closer the yuan is to an equilibrium, the bigger role market forces will play in the yuan exchange rate, PBOC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said Monday. He said the central bank will allow and encourage market forces to play a bigger role while decreasing its intervention in the market in an orderly manner.

The at least 47 bodies of women and children were discovered from Homs, in Syria where the violent conflicts between the Syrian army and the armed rebels have killed hundreds of civilians in past months.

Mounting the pressure on New Delhi, the Italian Embassy has sent a letter to the Union Ministry of External Affairs demanding the release of the Italian marines detained following a rogue firing off the southern coast of India, which resulted in the death of two Indian fishermen on board a fishing boat.

While Egypt is seeking to negotiate an agreement between Israel and Gaza militants, Hamas warned on Sunday that Israel needs to hold its fire first for peace to return.

The Israel Air Force killed two Palestine terrorists and injured 35 others in an air strike in southern Gaza strip Monday morning.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has hinted that his country will not back away from its nuclear ambitions threatened by the possibility of a U.S.-backed Israeli military strike.

China lowering its growth target will have no direct impact on policy and also will not necessarily mean that it is less supportive to growth in the rest of the world, according to a report by Capital Economics.

US officials warn of possible reprisals after 16 Afghan villagers, mostly children and women, killed in US soldier rampage.

A rogue US soldier opened fire on villagers and killed sixteen Afghan civilians including nine children on Sunday.

Jewish settlers signed an agreement with the Israeli government Sunday to leave the biggest unauthorized outpost in the occupied West Bank and move to a nearby site after months of negotiations to avoid their forced removal.

After the killing of Afghan civilians by an American soldier Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said it was time for U.S. troops to leave Afghanistan.

President Nicolas Sarkozy, recasting himself as France's savior from low-cost competition and high immigration, threatened to disregard European limitations on protectionism as he sought to give his re-election campaign a second wind Sunday.

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos will run unopposed for the leadership of the Socialists, party officials said Sunday, as the political focus shifts towards a parliamentary election now that Athens has secured a bond swap deal.

Lawyers for the family of a man killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan said they would begin legal action against Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Monday, accusing him of complicity in strikes they say broke international laws.

A U.S. Army sergeant killed at least 16 civilians, nine of them children, in southern Aghanistan before dawn Sunday in the latest outrage to threaten U.S.-Afghan relations, Afghan and American officials said.

Conflicting reports surround the killing of 15 Afghan civilians in Kandahar province this weekend.

The soldier, whose identity has not yet been revealed, reportedly turned himself into military authorities.

A U.S. soldier was detained at a NATO base in Afghanistan for shooting and killing Afghan civilians Sunday, said the provincial governor Tooryalai Wesa.