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Andy Murray will open his Madrid Masters campaign against Nicolas Almagro - conqueror of Rafael Nadal on clay last month - on Wednesday night. Murray, 27, last played in Britain's Davis Cup defeat by Italy in April. Almagro, 28, ended world...

The US government has offered to assist Nigeria locate and rescue the girls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, abducted three weeks ago in by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect. Accepting the offer on...

South Africans voted in the first "Born Free" election on Wednesday, with polls suggesting the allure of the ruling African National Congress as the conqueror of apartheid will prevail even among those with no memory of white-minority rule. Voters young...

Indian police searched for at least a dozen missing people on Wednesday after finding seven bodies floating down river from a national park in Assam where Muslim villagers were killed in a massacre that has marred the country's general...

The United States has received intelligence of a "specific terrorist threat" against churches and other places of worship in the Ugandan capital, its embassy there said. A security message on the embassy's website did not say who was planning the...

Amid cheers from the shareholders for a good outing in the year 2013, Chairman of Dangote Cement Plc, Aliko Dangote, has pledged that his company would intensify direct-to-consumer deliveries as a means of stabilising the price of cement in...

Pfizer (PFE.N) sought to allay fears that its proposed $106 billion takeover of AstraZeneca (AZN.L) would deal a blow to drug research, saying the new company would bolster innovative science and speed the development of new treatments. The deal would...

HSBC's (HSBA.L) first quarter profits fell 20 percent from a year ago to $6.8 billion as revenue dipped at its investment bank, while last year's earnings were swelled by asset sales. HSBC, which is Europe's biggest bank but makes most...

Hewlett-Packard Co said it plans to invest more than $1 billion over the next two years to develop and offer cloud-computing products and services. The company said it will make its OpenStack-based public cloud services available in 20 data centers...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd may be making its debut on Wall Street later this summer, but it's certainly no stranger to the investors of Silicon Valley. In the past 18 months, the Chinese e-commerce giant has burrowed its way into...