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Gunmen have carried out a series of co-ordinated attacks across the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay), killing at least 80 people and injuring 250 more. At least seven high-profile locations were hit in India's financial capital, including two luxury hotels where hostages are reported to be held.... [more]

The Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country's billion-dollar annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland - as an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees, the country's first democratically elected presid... [more]

The governments of Montenegro and Macedonia have formally recognised Kosovo as independent following its secession from Serbia in February. It means that, apart from Serbia, only Bosnia-Hercegovina among ex-Yugoslav republics has yet to recognise Kosovo. [more]

Masked kidnappers have taken 19 people hostage, including 11 Western tourists on safari in a remote desert border area of Egypt, taking them over the frontier into Sudan, Egyptian officials said yesterday. The kidnapping was the first of its kind in Egypt in living memory, though Islamic milit... [more]

Yves Rossy aims to make history this week by crossing the Channel strapped to a jet-powered wing and we can all watch the attempt live [more]

U.S. Air Force pilot has landed a plane in Antarctica in the dark for the first time using night-vision goggles, a feat that could lead to more supply flights to scientific bases in the frozen continent during its dark winter months, officials said Friday. [more]

A rogue monkey holed up at a Tokyo train station for more than two hours on Wednesday before giving dozens of net-wielding police officers the slip among crowds of excited children and passersby. "It's a monkey - it's not like it did anything bad," a police spokesman said, adding that the anim... [more]

An earthen dam at the Grand Canyon breached after heavy rains, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of campers and residents in Arizona , including a portion of a Native American reservation, officials said Sunday. Arizona's Redland Dam broke in the morning, sending water down Cataract Canyon ... [more]

Nine British women who took part in an oral sex competition while on holiday on the Greek island of Zakynthos are facing charges of prostitution. Six British and six Greek men, including two bar owners, were also charged over the incident, which took place at Laganas beach in the south of the ... [more]

Nepal celebrated a new era as the world's youngest republic Thursday after consigning its centuries-old monarchy to the history books and giving god-king Gyanendra two weeks to quit his palace. In an unprecedented vote that caps a peace accord between Maoist rebels and mainstream parties, a ne... [more]