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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says that Marxists and Maoists are plotting to kill her in league with the Pakistani intelligence, North Korea, Venezuela and Hun-gary.

A day after his release from jail, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka Tuesday said the Sri Lanka government must co-operate with any international probe into alleged war crimes as he denied thousands of civilians were killed in the final phase of the country's 25 year old civil war in 2009.

Is the US turning towards a major demographic shift? May be so, if the new data from the US Census Bureau is any indicator.

Former Bosnian Serb army commander General Ratko Mladic on trial at ICTY.

Iran has hanged a man convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday.

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who is set to earn billions when the social networking giant goes public on the U.S. stock market Friday, has drawn criticism for renouncing his U.S. citizenship in a move that could save him millions in taxes.

A hazardous drug derived from a particular type of tree common in Colombia can eliminate free will and can wipe the memory of its victims.

At least 49 mutilated bodies were found on the side of a highway in Cadereyta, a city in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, police said.

A special tribunal set up in Bangladesh has charged top Islamist leader Ghulam Azam with war crimes allegedly carried out during the 1971 war that liberated the country from Pakistan.