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Turkey's efforts in improving ties with its neighbors in the Middle East over the past decade may witness a challenge in the unabated unrest in Syria that may force a rethinking of its foreign policy, now that Sunday's election is out of the way.

At least one person was killed in a suicide bomb attack at a bank in Islamabad on Monday.

Auditors investigating the disappearance of $6.6 billion in cash intended to rebuild Iraq's shattered infrastructure told the Los Angeles Times that the money may have been stolen.

Yet another journalist was killed today in the Philippines, what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) calls the third most dangerous environment for journalists.

The United States Navy reportedly halted and turned back a North Korean vessel headed for Myanmar (the former Burma) a few weeks ago off the coast of China.

U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton visited Tanzania to honor the victims of the embassy bombings from 1998, a day after the alleged mastermind of those attacks was reportedly killed in Somalia.

Tom MacMaster, a 40-year-old American man, pulled off the biggest Internet hoax of all time.

Representative Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal has a pronounced impact on the tweeting habits of US politicians on both sides of the aisle. Fewer US Congressmen are tweeting their fans about their personal and political life in the wake of the Weiner scandal, according to a study by a website that tracks social media.

Representative Anthony Weiner, who is caught in a worsening sexting scandal, is finally thinking about stepping down, a remarkable change in stance over the weekend, it has been reported.

For New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, it's him before anything else.

The new photos of Representative Gabrielle Giffords have been released on Sunday. It has been almost six months after she was shot in the head in Tucson in January, 2011.

The repressive Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad recently “disappeared” an internationally-famous Syrian blogger named Amina Arraf.

Politicians aren’t mincing words when it comes to Anthony Weiner. Not even Democrats.

The IMF has succumbed to a cyber-attack from what sources believe originated from a member state, escalating the stakes in the latest in a string of cyber-warfare.

In yet another sign of China’s rise, Chinese delegates are now invited to the super-secret and super-elite Bilderberg Conference in 2011.

As more photos of Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY nearly nude at a Gym in Congress emerged over the weekend, a pair of top colleagues in the House of Representatives called for the embattled congressman to resign

So much for decorum! Rep. Anthony Weiner posed nearly naked before a mirror in a Congressional gym, embarrassing photos released online revealed.

Treasure hunter Bill Waren is reportedly launching an underwater search to find the corpse of Osama bin Laden as he believes that President Obama has failed to provide concrete proof of the terrorist’s death.

The first two smiling photographs of Representative Gabrielle Giffords have been released on Sunday, almost six months after a bullet struck her in the head in Tucson in January.

13 rebels lost their lives as clashes between rebels and government forces in Zawiyah, near the Libyan capital, continued for a second day on Sunday, said a rebel spokesman in the town.

Qantas Airways Ltd has cancelled all the flights in and out of Melbourne from Sunday evening due to a volcanic eruption in southern Chile.

The investigation into the online contact between Rep. Anthony Weiner and a 17-year-old Delaware girl has been closed by Police. The girl started following the New York Democrat on Twitter after a class trip to the nation's capital earlier in the spring.

A market was crowded with shoppers in Hamburg after the government lifted the warning on tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce on Saturday morning, following a deadly E. coli outbreak.

In yet another attempt to suppress the tree month long uprising against President Bashar al-Assad that has driven thousands of refugees into Turkey, Syrian tanks on Sunday rocked a border town overnight, said the residents.

About 2,000 villagers protested against POSCO's planned $12 billion steel plant on Saturday, with women and children forming a human ring around the site. Local television carried footages of women and children folks lying down on the site, making a long human ring.

At least 94 were killed as landslides and heavy rains unleash floods in central and southern China on Saturday.

In a bizarre incident early this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) faced a cyber attack, ironically from a member-nation, though the fund is not willing to reveal the country's name.

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the planner of the U.S. embassy attacks in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998 was killed last Tuesday at a police checkpoint, Somali authorities said Saturday.

A suspected suicide bombing killed at least 34 people in the Pakistani city of Peshawar late on Saturday.