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A suicide attack in Iraq has killed seven people - including five police officers - and wounded more than 30 others outside Baghdad's interior ministry building.

Supporting SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) has cost the domain registrar giant GoDaddy dearly. The Domain registrar has reportedly lost 37000 domains after the boycott call on it by internet community. It lost around 21000 domains in a single day (Friday 23, Dec.) while the previous day saw 15000 transfers out of it, according to a Venture beat report. This has happened despite the registrar's attempt to control the damage by withdrawing its support to SOPA.

Controversial Egyptian blogger, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, whose nude photographs shocked her country, has asked those of her countrywomen who wish to remove their veils to send her photographs of their faces, to be published online.

Isobel Narayan, teen-aged daughter of a judge was found dead in her home. The 16-year-old was found by her parents in the bedroom of her family's £400,000 four-bedroom home in Didsbury, Greater Manchester, last Sunday, reports Mirror. The cause of the death is not known and the circumstances also do not seem to be suspicious. However, tests are being carried out to see if her life has been claimed by Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS).

Kim Jong-il's successor will have his finger on north Korea's nuclear button.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul on Friday apologized for the decades-old reported racists and homophobic newsletters sent in his name. Video of the uncut interview was recently released.

Both Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have been ousted from the primary after failing to collect enough valid signatures to run, and while Perry's campaign has been over for months, the loss of Super Tuesday state Virginia for Gingrich is a devastating blow. Months after he was declared dead-on-arrival, is Gingrich's comeback already over?

China will try a veteran dissident, Chen Xi, on charges of inciting subversion for pro-democracy essays he published online, his wife said on Sunday, days after another dissident was jailed for nine years on similar charges.

Real estate mogul Donald Trump has reportedly changed his public political affiliation to unaffiliated from Republican, fueling talk about him running as an independent candidate for the 2012 U.S. Presidential elections.

The Japanese government is considering a dollar-swap arrangement with India to provide emergency liquidity in case the European debt crisis reaches emerging economies.

U.S. President Barack Obama's campaign set a goal of raising $60 million in the fourth quarter of the year to benefit the Democratic incumbent's re-election and the Democratic National Committee, a campaign official said on Saturday.

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Tens of thousands of flag-waving and chanting protesters on Saturday called for a disputed parliamentary election to be rerun and an end to Vladimir Putin's rule, increasing pressure on the Russian leader as he tries to win back the presidency.

After 44 presidents and well over two centuries, Americans have spent a great deal of time ranking their current and former leaders. Names like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln naturally rise to the top after benefiting from the kindness of history and a sense of mammoth achievement. But what of the last eight decades or so?

The U.S. Justice Department has rejected the South Carolina voter ID law, calling it discriminatory, citing concerns about the law's effect on African-American voters.

Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry have failed to qualify for Virginia's Republican presidential primaries.

A naked California man, who was trying to flee, was struck and killed by a truck after he jumped out of a moving ambulance on a freeway Friday afternoon. The accident happened on the northbound 5 south of the 55 freeway in Tustin at about 7.30 a.m., Sgt. Luis Garcia of the Tustin Police Department told the Weekly.

The myth-builders of North Korea... those who ensure the divine aura of the dictatorial Kim dynasty never fades... have a new task. They must raise Kim Jong-Un - the third son of former ruler Kim Jong-il and his heir apparent - to the status of a quasi-god, so as to make the unelected leader's governance unchallenged.

Thirteen people were killed and 100 others were injured in a fuel pipeline explosion in Colombia Friday.

he bill moves to France's senate next year. If it passes the upper house, it will become law.

Huge U.S. corporations are forming lobbying groups to try to influence what could become the hottest congressional debate over comprehensive tax reform in a generation.

The holiday season brings good news to 1.4 million low-wage workers in eight states. On the first day of January, these workers will see their income getting a modest boost as a result of state laws that require the minimum wage to keep up with inflation.

The FBI's upgrade of its computerized case file system has hit another snag and will not be fully deployed until mid-2012 after it crashed twice during a trial run by agents in October, according to a government report released on Friday.

President Barack Obama has options to kill or delay the Canada-to-Texas oil sands pipeline despite language in the payroll tax bill that forces him to make a decision on a permit by late February.

When you have to get off charges of being too close to politicians, you might as well get close to the people who are charging you.

Nearly all 2012 Republican candidates - Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and others - claim they are fiscal conservatives. That is, they promise to cut the U.S. national debt through reduced government spending.

Ron Paul said in a 2007 interview with Meet the Press that Abraham Lincoln should have bought the South's four million slaves and freed them instead of fighting the Civil War. But this idea is based on a completely unrealistic view of history.

One day after vocalizing its support for the SOPA Bill in 2012, GoDaddy decided to pull its support from the bill after many threatened to boycott the company's services.

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