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27 injured in Ukraine blasts as Euro 2012 looms

At least 27 people were wounded on Friday in a series of explosions in Ukraine, posing a major security challenge in the run-up to the Euro-2012 football tournament.

Complaints against BBC for showing sex, violence

The BBC has been hit with a flood of complaints after a crime drama showed a prison guard sexually assaulting a man and explicit images of a man's throat being slit.

27 injured in 4 blasts in Ukraine ahead of Euro 2012

At least 27 people were hurt in Ukraine's eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk today in four blasts that President Viktor Yanukovych called a "challenge to the nation" ahead of the Euro 2012 football championship.

London siege resolved; man arrested

In a dramatic incident, a 50-year-old man who created ruckus in central London on Friday, after taking four people hostage in a building and threatening to blow himself up, has been arrested by Scotland Yard.

Denmark: 3 men arrested on terror suspicions

Three men have been arrested in the Danish capital on suspicion of plotting a terror act after police found them in possession of automatic firearms and ammunition, Denmark's intelligence service said today.

Egypt to bring in law allowing man to have sex with dead wife

Egypt’s new Islamist-dominated parliament is preparing to introduce a controversial law that would allow husbands to have sex with their deceased wives up to six hours after death.

Murdoch: hacking scandal changed my company

Rupert Murdoch used his testimony before a UK inquiry to portray himself as the victim, not perpetrator, of a cover-up over phone hacking a bold claim unlikely to be accepted by those suing his company for invading their privacy.

Why British PM is wooing Indians in his country

British Prime Minister David Cameron launched a Conservative Friends of India group this week, where he said wonderful things about India and British Indians that were cheered by the gathered hundreds, especially his remark that the first British-Indian PM would a Conservative.

No evidence that cellphone is harmful

Scientists who looked at hundreds of studies of mobile phone exposure have found no conclusive links to cancer risk, brain function or infertility.

Court delivers blood diamond verdict on Liberia's Taylor

An international court opened on Thursday its judgement hearing for Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor, accused of arming Sierra Leone's rebels who paid him in "blood diamonds".

Rupert Murdoch testifies in UK for the second day

News Corp. executive chairman Rupert Murdoch has resumed his testimony before Britain's media ethics committee.

Murdoch probe rattles UK govt

An inquiry into the relationship between British politicians and Rupert Murdoch's media empire has rattled David Cameron's government. Culture minister Jeremy Hunt on Wednesday faced angry calls to resign over emails showing close cooperation between a senior aide and a Murdoch lobbyist during the tycoon's bid to takeover the BSkyb network.

Mein Kampf set to return to German schools

Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf, not printed in Germany for the last 67 years amid fears that it might promote Nazism, is set to return to the country's schools.

‘Never asked a UK minister for anything,’ says Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch batted away accusations on Wednesday that he used his vast media empire to play puppet master to a succession of British leaders, electrifying a media inquiry that has shaken faith in Prime Minister David Cameron’s government.

Cameron predicts first Brit Indian Conservative PM

The Conservative party is going to be the first in the UK to have a British Prime Minister of Indian-origin, Premier David Cameron has forecast as he praised the community for their hard work to make Britain what it is today.

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