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India's bid to get a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has got another boost after Uzbekistan assured of full support.

Fordham University students Abhishek Mehra, left, and Allison Murray, right, with Professor R.P. Raghupathi, center, who won an IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Award for helping students design high-tech solutions to global problems.

The World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body today confirmed that Airbus received $18 billion in illegal “launch aid” and other subsidies from European governments.

Two more disaster recovery centers opened Monday to help those whose homes or businesses were affected by recent storms and tornadoes.

There is strong reaction in France over the sexual assault charges against International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Considered a leading French presidential contender, Strauss-Kahn was arrested by New York City police late Saturday.

The Spanish city of Lorca is preparing to bury the victims of this week's earthquake.

A U.S. Army soldier with the 10th Special Forces Group and his military working dog jump off the ramp of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment during water training over the Gulf of Mexico as part of exercise Emerald Warrior 2011 on March 1, 2011.

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