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Once one of the most dangerous nations on earth, Jamaica has witnessed an astonishing decline in its murder rate, largely as a result of a police crackdown on gang activity.

The House votes to thwart FCC's net neutrality attempts. The legislation now goes to the Senate and White House, where it is expected to not pass.

IBTimes Daily Edition: Friday April 8, 2011

Scenes of caution, cleanup and everyday life played out amid a backdrop of catastrophe and new concerns on Friday, a day after a major 7.4 magnitude aftershock struck northeastern Japan following a 9.0 quake in March.

A Royal Navy crewman was shot to death and another is seriously wounded inside the HMS Astute nuclear submarine docked at Southampton, England.

The population of Muslims in Western Europe has been steadily rising in recent decades, largely due to immigration from the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa.

Congress is putting the pieces in place to avoid a shutdown by midnight on Friday, temporarily easing the pressure but could find itself in the same crisis a week from now as lawmakers still remain apart on a longer six month budget extension.

The federal budget shutdown may actually happen for the first time since 1996.

U.S. officials knew about the Yemeni opposition deep discontent over their president at least two years ago, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.

Leaders of the House and Senate were at odds on Friday over the reasons for not reaching agreement about funding the federal government for the next six months to avert a federal shutdown by midnight as spending cuts and federal funding for the women's health organization emerged as key sticking points.

Israeli missiles fired into Gaza has reportedly killed at least six Palestinians, including two women, despite a ceasefire brokered by Hamas.

NASA says nonessential workers will be forced to stop working. The end of the Space Shuttle program could be delayed as a result.

Yemen’s embattled president, under pressure from virtually all sides to step down after more than three decades in power, has defiantly rejected a proposal by other Gulf Arab states to mediate his resignation.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters on Friday that negotiators from the House and Senate attempting to avert a government shutdown had agreed to $38 billion in spending cuts for the current fiscal year, but it was unclear what would be done about Republican requests to defund Planned Parenthood and place new restrictions on the Environmental protection agency.

Fresh protests in Syria have led to the death of at least four anti-government demonstrators in the southern town of Deraa, the focal point of unrest against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

With another federal government shutdown looming around after 15 years in the United States, tourism centers and tourists are likely to be affected.

A high-ranking NATO official said he will not apologize for a missile attack near Adjabiya in eastern Libya that accidentally killed at least four rebels in a tragic case of “friendly fire.”

President Barack Obama said late Thursday that the federal government is starting to prepare for a shutdown and is seeking an early morning answer from Congressional negotiators on a possible budget deal.

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza said it has declared a ceasefire and will cease from firing missiles at Israel, after a recent escalation of attacks between the two parties.

The Donald is on a roll. A week of frenetic attack on President Barack Obama has earned Donald Trump the second spot in a list of possible Republican presidential candidates in 2012.

In a new turn of events, the current week saw some of the biggest political, economic and social changes in recent times.

A gunman barged into a classroom and opened fire in Tasso da Silveira School in Rio de Janeiro, killing 11 students.

A spokesman for a Washington nuclear power plant says a small amount of hydrogen gas trapped in a pipe ignited in a brief, six-inch flame Thursday when workers cut into the pipe, the Associated Press reported today.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's proposal to change Medicare for those under age 55 is nothing short of a complete reconceptualization of the health insurance program, says a University of Illinois elder law expert.

Including warning labels on unhealthy foods would be a better option than a fat tax for deterring overweight people from making unhealthy purchases, a new University of Alberta study has found.

The Department of Homeland Security will use Facebook, Twitter to send terror alerts to the public.

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, LLC were the first planes to dock at Virgin America's new San Francisco International Airport terminal.

The Chinese state news agency Xinhua has revealed pictures of an aircraft carrier Varyag, which is being built at a shipyard in Dalian, China.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Japan at 11:32 p.m. local time on Thursday in the same area as the initial March 11 9.0-magnitude earthquake killing two people and injuring more than 100in the northeastern Japan.