One of the top al-Qaeda leaders was killed in a US drone strike in Syria, the Pentagon said Friday.The strike comes two days after a base in southern Syria, used by the US-led coalition fighting the I
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It's been likened by critics to the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings films, or a squashed Pokemon ball.But the young artist behind a special leaving gift from EU leaders to German Chancellor A
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Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi travelled to Kabul on Thursday along with spy agency ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed to hold talks with Afghanistan's interim government led by the Taliba
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New Zealand's first indigenous Maori woman to be named Governor-general, Dame Cindy Kiro, was formally sworn into the largely ceremonial role in parliament in Wellington on Thursday, pledging to reach
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Queen Elizabeth II turned down a prize celebrating the elderly, assessing that at 95 she did not meet the criteria, The Oldie magazine said .The publication wrote to palace officials in July to ask if
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South Korea is scheduled to conduct its first test launch into space of a domestically built rocket on Thursday in a major step toward jumpstarting the country's space programme.The three-stage KSLV-I
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