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The time for counting in years, months or even weeks has passed, with the 2014 Fifa World Cup Brazil™ now set to arrive in a matter of days, 100 to be exact, from today, 4 March, to the Opening...

President Vladimir Putin ordered troops involved in a military exercise in western Russia back to base on Tuesday in an announcement that appeared intended to ease East-West tension over fears of war in Ukraine. Russian financial markets rebounded after sharp...

The judge in the murder trial of South African track star Oscar Pistorius sharply warned the media to behave on Tuesday after a local television station leaked a photo of the state's first witness who had asked that her...

The front line in Mostar during the Bosnian war ran north-south, along a road parallel with the emerald waters of the Neretva River. Catholic Croats held the west and Muslim Bosniaks the east, much as they do today. Under socialist...

A prominent exiled Uighur leader has urged China's government to respond calmly to a knife attack in the country's southwest and not "demonize" ethnic Uighurs after Beijing blamed the mass killings on extremists from the far western region of...

British oil firm BP (BP.L) said it was considering its options after a U.S. appeals court rejected its bid to block businesses from recovering money over the Gulf of Mexico spill even if they could not trace their economic...

French carmaker Renault (RENA.PA) has trimmed its growth forecast for the global market this year, in a sign the industry is becoming increasingly worried about volatile emerging markets even as demand in Europe starts to pick up. Renault sales chief...

Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) efforts to move into no-frills vehicles are stalling as the German carmaker is struggling to meet cost targets for its first budget car, a VW brand executive told Reuters on Tuesday. "It's becoming more and more difficult" to...

India's trade minister on Tuesday accused the United States of excessive trade protectionism, launching a broadside that coincided with the visit of a top U.S. official to patch up a stormy bilateral friendship. Trade Minister Anand Sharma, speaking at a...

World shares and hard-hit Russian assets rebounded on Tuesday after Russia's president ordered troops in military exercises to return to base in what was seen as a dampening down of immediate tensions in the East-West crisis over Ukraine. Russian stocks...