PRAGUE - Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime planned to use an anti-tank rocket to attack the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, the Czech Republic's counterintelligence service said Monday. Iraqi spies posing as diplomats wer
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A top Dubai finance official said the emirate fully expected fallout from its debt problems and assured foreign creditors that Dubai World's request to postpone payment on some of its $60 billion in debt was carefully
China announced Thursday that it will cut its economy's carbon intensity by up to 45 percent by 2020, and that Premier Wen Jiabao will participate in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month.The move by the world's largest greenho
Every school pupil in England is to be taught that domestic violence against women and girls is unacceptable, as part of a new government strategy.Under the plans, from 2011 children will be taught from the age of five how to prevent violent relatio
NEW DELHI - India's plans to launch a major offensive against Maoist rebels in the country's heartlands could jeopardise much-needed humanitarian operations in the impoverished area, the European Commission said on Thursday. The government has sig
Gordon Brown is planning to apologise for the UK's role in sending thousands of its children to former colonies in the 20th century, the BBC has learned.Under the Child Migrants Programme - which ended just 40 years ago - poor children were sent to
Researchers in Australia plan to test a medical scaffold designed to stimulate natural breast tissue to regrow following surgery.Doctors from the Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, will test the technique next year in a trial
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