Rescue workers evacuate young people from the summer school meeting organised by the ruling Labour Party on Utoya, an island outside the capital, on Saturday.
The suspect in Friday’s bomb and shooting attacks was described as a gun-loving, highly religious Norwegian obsessed with what he saw as the threat of multiculturalism and Muslim immigration to the cultural and patriotic values of his country.
Joel Klein, who joined News Corporation in January, has become one of Rupert Murdoch’s closest and most visible advisers throughout the phone hacking crisis.
William Lewis, a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, has become a central figure in a battle over an exclusive story the newspaper says was stolen from it last year.
Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said that James Murdoch still had “questions to answer” about the phone hacking scandal swirling around News International.
Sentiment against former President Hosni Mubarak has been expressed in various ways in Cairo since his ouster, including posters, burning images and graffiti.
Some activists say that setting a trial date of Aug. 3 for former President Hosni Mubarak was just an element of political theater.
The police said that the death of the Grammy-award winning singer, who battled addiction problems for years, was being treated as “unexplained.”
Senegal’s opposition went ahead with a protest on Saturday after changing the location to skirt a ban on demonstrations issued by the government.
Near Wenzhou, China, a train halted by lightning was struck by another train, derailing six cars, two of which were thrown from a bridge.
Afghan officials expressed concern about more undetected militant camps within the country’s borders.
Friday’s demonstrations, under the slogan of unity, came a week after a wave of sectarian bloodshed in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, claimed the lives of at least two dozen people.
State security officials arrested Lai Changxing after Canadian authorities deported him, ending more than a decade of attempts to escape imprisonment.
Iran’s nuclear program, led by Fereydoon Abbasi, plans to triple its production of a type of nuclear fuel that moves it closer to the production of bomb-grade material in a hurry.
As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili counseled President Bill Clinton on the use of troops in Bosnia and other trouble spots.
Efforts to relocate the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, once a powerful paramilitary organization, have so far been unsuccessful.
Tristane Banon is the subject of much debate in France, but she says her decision to formally accuse Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape is “liberation.”
President Bingu wa Mutharika’s statements at a police ceremony came after two days of unrest that left 18 people dead and many more hospitalized.
The latest bailout in the Greek saga has the elements of familiar European intrigue: private meetings, cries of protest and then a deal as markets veer toward panic.
Mr. Ky, a former air force general, ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist for two years during the Vietnam War.
July 22, 2011 - Reporter Elisa Mala stood less than one mile from bomb attacks that tore into government buildings in central Oslo.
Some of the people who have drawn criticism, have resigned or have been arrested in the phone hacking scandal.
If Ali Abdullah Saleh and his generals believe they can defeat protesters, they are taking an enormous risk.
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For some soldiers, returning after their yearlong deployment to Afghanistan was the beginning of new difficulties.
Classified military documents provide accounts of the men who have done time at the prison and the evidence against the 172 men still locked up there.
Documents related to the 779 people who have been sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison since 2002.
In recent times, the news seems to have shifted into less predictable terrain, even by the lights of a generation that grew up in the shadow of momentous change.
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