About 800,000 elderly people in the United Kingdom who need social and health care are not receiving any support from either state or the private sector, according to a report from Age UK, a British registered charity.
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Serbia may send Ratko Mladic to face genocide charges in The Hague within four days, a justice official said on Monday, after the Bosnian Serb wartime general’s son said he appeared frail after 16 years of run.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has participated in Rolling Thunder event, coming back into the spotlight and renewing rumors about her 2012 White House ambitions.
The civil war that has raged in Colombia over the past quarter-century has resulted in the illegal seizure of at least 17-million acres of land by armed groups, according to the Bogota government.
China's Supreme Court has ordered to impose harsher penalties, which include death sentence to people who have violated the food safety, as the government struggles to clean up the food supply.
Germany will phase out all nuclear plants in the country by 2022, the coalition government announced on Monday.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces killed at least 20 protesters in the city of Taiz on Monday, the Voice of America reported, citing witnesses.
At least 15 demonstrators were killed by Yemen security forces in the southern city of Taiz on Monday, Reuters reported.
The Google Inc., and Facebook were unsuccessful to win dismissal of a lawsuit by a New York company over a software that was designed to allow people access social networks through their mobile devices.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) apologized on Monday for an air strike that killed about 14 civilians in the south-west of the country.
Germany will shut all its nuclear reactors by 2022, parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government agreed on Monday, in a reaction to Japan's Fukushima disaster that marks a drastic policy reversal, said a Reuters report.
Why would Saudi Arabia wish good luck to Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh who is facing the wrath of anti-government protesters? Especially when the president is having a tough time trying to contain the number of his defecting military chiefs?
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her PAC team started the week-long tour of historic sites of the Northeast on Sunday.
Pakistan has decided to launch an offensive military attack in North Waziristan, the main sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban on the border with Afghanistan, a local newspaper reported on Monday.
Tight security was installed at parts of Chinese capital's vast northern region of Inner Mongolia on Sunday after news of a possible protest by Mongolians spread via internet.
Former French foreign minister Roland Dumas, who visited Libya as lawyer to prepare a legal case on behalf of victims of NATO bombing, said he was prepared to defend leader Muammar Gaddafi if he is sent to The Hague, Reuters reported.
Vietnam, accusing China, told Reuters on Sunday that its navy would do everything necessary to protect its territorial integrity after three Chinese patrol boats confronted and damaged an oil investigation ship operated by PetroVietnam, the state-owned oil and Gas Company.
President Sepp Blatter was cleared of any wrong doings by FIFA's ethics committee on Sunday, while two of soccer's most senior officials - Qatari Mohamed bin Hammam and Jack Warner - were suspended in the worst corruption scandal.
The Afghan government accused Pakistan on Sunday saying that it had sheltered insurgents behind the suicide bombing that killed Dawood Dawood, one of the most powerful men in northern Afghanistan.
The crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant in northeastern Japan hit by another blow as the system to cool the nuclear reactor and fuel pool has stopped at its No. 5 unit.
At least 14 civilians were killed in southern Afghanistan when an air strike led by NATO troops attacked on Sunday said NATO and Afghan Officials, reported Reuters. Many of the killed were children.
After the March 11 disaster crisis, the Japanese people seem to have lost their confidence on Prime Minister Naoto Kan. While 70 percent of Japanese voters want a replacement for Kan, nearly half of them think he should continue as the PM.
Atleast 11 civilians were killed and many wounded when Syrian forces led an attack in a widening military push into central Syria to cut down protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday, a Reuters report said.
Saudi Arabian prince Alwaleed bin Talal would like to see oil prices drop to the $70-$80 a barrel range in a move to thwart western development in alternate fuels.
Sarah Palin kicked off her 'One Nation' tour in Washington D.C. on Sunday, riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to honor U.S. veterans, marking the start of a short tour that will take her to New England as speculation mounts about her willingness to mount a presidential run.
Faced with a legal and media onslaught, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is pulling together a crack team of investigators, former spies and media advisers to fight back against charges he sexually assaulted a hotel chambermaid.
An Egyptian court fined former president Hosni Mubarak and his two ministers $90 million for shutting down the telecommunication services during the uprisings.
The head of Georgia's rebel Abkhazia region Sergei Bagapsh, died on Sunday in a Moscow hospital after lung surgery, Abkhaz officials told Reuters.
Government troops backed by tanks attacked two central towns in Syria that are protesting against President Bashar Assad’s government, a local media reported. Several people were wounded in the attack due to intense gunfire by security forces.
