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US President Barack Obama and ANC spokesperson Keith Khoza have been among the friends and foes who paid tribute to the UK’s iconic Margaret Thatcher.
French leader Nicolas Sarkozy says he will quit politics if he loses next month’s election as his challenger presses home on the incumbent’s record.
Triumphant fighters marched up and down as dazed and frightened patients in Sirte’s main hospital lay crammed into a ground floor corridor.
Fighters loyal to Libya’s interim government are battling for full control of Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace where diehards are holed up.
Streams of civilians have fled Sirte in Libya while the Red Cross warns of a medical emergency and battles continue.
Two children have been killed in rocket fire as their family joined the quickening exodus of civilians during a two-day window to flee Sirte, Libya.
Heavily armed anti-Gaddafi fighters tightened their siege of the ousted Libyan leader’s hometown of Sirte on Monday.
Libya’s new rulers have unearthed a mass grave of 1 700 prisoners slain by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in a 1996 uprising.
Hundreds of fighters for Libya’s new rulers thrust into Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte from the east on Sunday, as Nato pounded the coastal city.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has finally returned to Paris for the first time since a sex scandal which scuppered his hopes for the French presidency.
Panama’s ex-strongman Manuel Noriega on looks set return home — and go straight into custody there — after more than two decades in foreign prisons.
Most residents of Ajdabiya voted with their feet and gone to stay in makeshift camps or with relatives in the rebel capital Benghazi or other towns.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki emerged on Monday as a frontrunner after an election seen as a test of the nation’s young democracy.
French and German leaders stood side by side in Paris to honour the fallen of World War I on Wednesday.
A French lift-maker scrambled on Wednesday to remove hundreds of lift buttons containing radioactive material.
Diego Maradona, the Argentinian soccer genius notorious for the ”Hand of God” goal and a post-football descent into drugs, hits the big screen in Cannes on Tuesday in a…
Repressed memories, the horrors of war and Israel’s dubious role in a notorious Beirut refugee camp massacre are the themes of the Cannes film festival’s first ever…
Tourism and commerce are conspiring to turn what for centuries has been a thriving Jewish district — a slice of downtown Tel Aviv in modern Paris — into just another identikit…
World leaders on Thursday insisted that the United States credit crunch would not cause an economic crisis but stock markets across the world plummeted yet again as investors…
United States home-loan woes caused more turbulence on world markets on Friday despite the tens of billions of dollars released by central banks to stop the problem turning into…
