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U.N. inspectors left central Damascus on Monday to investigate sites of an alleged chemical weapons strike on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, a Reuters witness said, after calls from Western powers for military action to punish what may...

Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden got stuck in the transit zone of a Moscow airport because Havana said it would not let him fly from Russia to Cuba, a Russian newspaper reported on Monday. Snowden, who is wanted...

Mariam Bozan Khalil spent days avoiding Syrian rebel militiamen on the road to Iraq, only to be forced to finish her journey on foot through sun-scorched hills. She is one of more than 40,000 Syrians who have escaped to Iraq's...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday stressed the need for Pakistan's help in arranging peace talks with the Taliban in a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who assured him of his support. Pakistan backed the Taliban's rise to...

In the 1990s, U.S. banks came up with a clever idea: using life insurance to bet that their employees would eventually die. Now those wagers are coming back to haunt Wall Street banks for reasons that have little to...

Italian shares and bonds fell on Monday after a threat from Silvio Berlusconi's party to bring down the government while a weaker dollar and lower U.S. yields offered some relief to battered emerging markets. The dollar slipped against the yen...

The next CEO of Microsoft Corp has one big decision to make: press on with retiring chief executive Steve Ballmer's ambitious plan to transform the software giant into a broad-based devices and services company, or jettison that idea and...

Greece could return to debt markets to test the water in the second half of 2014 if his country returns to growth in the first half of next year and manages a primary surplus, its finance minister said in...

ABUJA, August 26, (THEWILL) -The chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, said on Sunday that  the newly-registered Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) is not a political party and should not have...

Tottenham Hotspur have finally agreed the world-record €100 million (£86  million) transfer of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid. An official announcement is due to be made as early as Tuesday. Significantly, the agreement involves a straight cash deal with no players...