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"Two years before the Korean peninsula erupted in a civil war that saw the North and the South (and the U.S., the United Nations, th...

"The leader of Egypt's Coptic Christians has accused the country's president of "negligence" following deadly clas...

""No one should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gains," Mr Xi warned during...

"It used to be that what happened in your dreams was your own little secret. But today scientists report for the first time that the...

"The British Embassy in Colombia made an embarrassing gaffe when it referred to the Falklands Islands using the Argentinian name ...

The Japanese behaved disgracefully during the second world war, this barbarity was specifically allowed free reign on one of the greatest c...

"Kim Jong Un’s latest threats against the United States may be even more apocalyptic than Kim Jong Il’s. But the Obama administratio...

“Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment formed We Can Be Heroes in response to the crisis in the Horn of Africa where 8 million people are in ...

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U.S. Drone strike infographic  via  POPSCI

"A US congressman last week introduced a resolution that would establish a “virtual Congress” – a legislature in which lawmakers cou...

"Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday called for building a new type of international relations with win-win cooperation at th...

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In the Arabian desert there sits a Palm Oasis. Its existence gives life not just to weary travelling wildlife but gives mankind a chance ...

"Comet Pan-STARRS is visible in many parts of the U.S. around sunset, and it was at its peak brightness a few days ago when it made ...

Russia has taken the baby steps towards a web elected democratic process. The beginning of the Russian metamorphosis? "The bill...

"Xi Jinping started his presidency promising to deliver a "Chinese dream" of national rejuvenation" Read more on CHIN...

"Three years ago, Stanley and his colleagues discovered the mathematics behind what he calls “the extreme fragility of interdependen...

"Yes, the Iraq War was a war for oil, and it was a war with winners: Big Oil." Read more on CNN .

"You might think that as one of the world's top oil producing nations, the United Arab Emirates would have little use for solar ...

"US President Barack Obama has offered Iran a "practical solution" if it truly seeks peaceful nuclear capabilities rather ...

"Peer 1 Hosting has been trying to explain what the Internet looks like since 2011, when they created an infographic  map of the Int...

"Greenland's government  has fallen  in the wake of an argument in the country over the extent to which foreign oil and mining...

"An Ecuadorian minister said on Wednesday that Julian Assange was in "good spirits" after visiting the WikiLeaks founder i...

"Argentine President Cristina Kirchner has compared the Falkland Islanders to ‘squatters’ after 99.8 per cent voted in favour of Bri...

"Neanderthals had sharper eyesight and bigger bodies than our early ancestors, but these traits only contributed to their eventual d...

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.  During those 20...

"As the Cyrus Cylinder begins its US tour, BBC Persian's Khashayar Joneidi explores how the reputedly liberal monarch who gave h...

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Via GIZMODO . Life On Mars from Lukas Vojir on Vimeo .

"Asked on Morning Joe to name the issues the Republican Party needs to address, he replied, “We’re no longer socially mobile … It is...

"Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to one year in jail after a wiretap trial linked to a 2005 banki...

"What can technology learn from spirituality? For most Wired readers, the default answer is probably "nothing". But a conf...

"For centuries, it has been a crystal of legend locked in the verses of Norse myth with little or no evidence that it was ever real....

I am the heart of the Universe. I measure both birth and death. I define your civilisation, the more accurate I am, the more precise you ...

THE ROMAN REVOLUTION (133BC) "In order to explain the republic’s fall, it has seemed appropriate to ransack preceding  ...

"It is now more than 20 years since pro-democracy grassroots organizations led struggles that eventually resulted in the overthrow o...

"The opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) has pulled out of a series of international meetings in protest at what it said was ...

"When big companies fail, it’s often not because they do something wrong but because they do everything right. Successful business...

"Derek Amato stood above the shallow end of the swimming pool and called for his buddy in the Jacuzzi to toss him the football. Then...

"Moscow believes an operable national defense against threats from outer space can be built within 10 years’ time. The 500-kiloton e...

"In Brazil, a former presidential candidate and environment minister has launched a new political party, Sustainability Network, a...

"A conservative icon in a hall crammed with college kids is a powder keg awaiting a spark, and cops had been summoned to defuse any ...