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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has sat down with Russian President Medvedev at the Russian president's summer residence near the Black Sea to talk about help for Afghanistan.

More flood aid has been promised to Pakistan by the US and EU.

The US has finally ended its combat operations in Iraq.

The upcoming Commonwealth Games in Delhi are expected to bring a number of things to the city: athletes, tourists, and, less excitingly, traffic. To help monitor the situation, the Delhi Traffic Police (DTP) have started using Facebook to collect information about traffic violations. The project has recently caught a lot of attention from the mainstream media, social media and the common man in India.

The second annual Global Model United Nations conference, bringing together hundreds of students from more than 60 countries, wrapped up in the Malaysian capital today with a call by a senior official from the world body for greater dialogue and understanding.

The proposed Islamic center near ground zero has spurred intense debate, but it isn't the only U.S. mosque to trigger controversy.

Efforts by the United Nations agencies to scale up aid delivery to those affected by the massive floods in Pakistan continued today despite enormous logistical challenges posed by the devastated infrastructure that has left many areas accessible only by air after roads and bridges were destroyed by the deluge.

A survey just published in Denmark has shown a majority of Danes fear that Islam is an obstacle to society.

Indication that China's economy is close to second largest in the world came today with the release of Japan's growth figures for the second quarter.

Waterborne diseases continue to pose great risk to millions of people affected by the devastating floods in Pakistan, the United Nations warned today, a day after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on a visit to the country, described the “heart-wrenching” suffering he witnessed among flood survivors.