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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, winding up a trip to encourage reforms in Myanmar, praised opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday for supporting democratization by making a political compromise....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- When Burmese filmmaker Htun Zaw Win decided to make a short comedy about the tragically bizarre process of getting movies made in his oppressed homeland, he knew exactly what to base it on: real life....

BEIJING (AP) -- Since blind activist Chen Guangcheng was being held under illegal house arrest by local Chinese officials, his only offense in escaping from his rural home has been to embarrass his captors. Even police in Beijing seem to acknowledge this, saying he broke no laws, according to his supporters....

BURABURI, India (AP) -- Army divers and rescue workers pulled 103 bodies out of a river after a packed ferry capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote northeast India, an official said Tuesday....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's recently ousted opposition leader Tzipi Livni plans to quit parliament on Tuesday but will remain active in politics, a confidant said....

A panel investigating phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid said he is not a "fit and proper person" to run a major international company.

For thousands of youngsters, crucial exams are nigh. Many say the pressure on students should be minimised, but should people just accept it as a fact of life?

Our regular column covering the passing of significant - but lesser-reported - people of the past month.

Training begins for a pioneering UK project to search for life in a lake hidden beneath the Antarctic ice-sheet.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand may be one of the most geographically isolated nations on Earth, but its leaders say the country is not immune to the risks of refugees arriving by boat....

LJ Rich reports on why what you do online could result in preferential treatment in shops, restaurants and hotels.

A genetic test could help predict breast cancer many years and even decades before the disease is diagnosed, research suggests.

Who is responsible for content on the internet? Claire Perry MP, chair of the Internet Porn Inquiry and Nicholas Lansman of the Internet Service Providers ISP Association, debate the ISP ban on file sharing website Pirate Bay.

Holders Wigan face arch rivals St Helens in the last eight of the Challenge Cup, while Championship side Leigh host Super League champions Leeds.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum wants to ensure the GOP's policy platform represents conservatives' interests. Newt Gingrich wants help retiring his campaign debt and repairing his reputation....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum wants to ensure the GOP's policy platform represents conservatives' interests. Newt Gingrich wants help retiring his campaign debt and repairing his reputation....

Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, Stereophonics and Paolo Nutini are to represent the four UK nations at a concert to mark the start of the Olympics.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday praised opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's efforts to advance democracy in Myanmar a day after she said she would take the oath of office for the country's parliament despite objecting to its wording.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After two weeks of disturbing revelations about a tawdry prostitution scandal, the Secret Service and its supporters are circling the wagons to restore the "secret" part of its mission....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the better part of a year, Mitt Romney has tethered himself to an array of positions designed for the Republican presidential primaries, stances that put him to the right of where he's been through much of his career and raise questions about where he really wants to go. President Barack Obama's politicking has tacked to the left, thanks to all those speeches to Democratic fundraisers and other activist-heavy events that play up the liberal in him....