Pakistan has begun moving its nuclear weapons in low-security vans on congested roads to hide them from US spy agencies, making the weapons more vulnerable to theft by Islamist militants, two US magaz

Australia's Qantas was preparing to return to the air for the first time in two days today, after an industrial tribunal ordered it and unions to halt a bitter row that grounded all its planes.
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Snow blanketed quake-hit eastern Turkey, while emergency crews found a teenager alive in the rubble more than 100 hours after the disaster even as the death toll climbed to 550.

Aydin Palak, 18, was

A young Libyan fighter has claimed in a video posted on the Internet that he had captured Libya's deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and shot him twice, fatally wounding him.

A medical expert told the Michael Jackson trial today that the anesthetic propofol, blamed for the pop star's 2009 death, remains an 'outstanding drug' if properly administered.

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A military aircraft with six people on board went missing on Tuesday over a remote hunting reserve in mid-western Nepal, the army said.

The Britten-Norman Islander airplane was returning to the capi

Six people, including a family of five, were killed in Yemen despite a relative calm after deadly clashes between supporters and foes of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, medics and witnesses said toda

Two Saudi women and two Yemeni men were executed by the sword on Wednesday for separate murders, the interior ministry said, bringing the number of executions there to at least 62 this year.

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A scheme in six Indian states that concentrated safe-sex campaigns on a few niche groups prevented 100,000 HIV infections over five years, according to estimates published in The Lancet today.

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Two Saudi men convicted of murder were executed by the sword on Friday in the northern city of Tabuk, the interior ministry said.

Karim bin Farhan al-Messeyden al-Atawi was found guilty of stabbing