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Los Angeles, Oct. 8 -- Authorities in the US and Egypt have arrested about 100 individuals in an international phishing scheme, the FBI said on Wednesday.

Washington, Oct. 8 -- The US federal budget deficit tripled to about $1.4 trillion for fiscal year 2009 in the midst of the worst economic decline since the Great Depression, the office that keeps track of spending for Congress said on Wednesday.

The International star has topped Forbes.com?s latest Best Actresses for the Buck list after proving movie bosses can make the most money from her.

Rescue workers reported on Saturday that entire villages had been sucked under the earth after the the devastating earthquake that hammered western Sumatra, estimating that at last 600 people had lost their lives in the countryside surrounding Pandang.

US President Barack Obama called up Greece's next prime minister, George Papandreou, to congratulate him on his success in Sunday's elections, the White House said.

Pakistan has been able to get the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) involved in the Kashmir dispute once again.

Six world powers held talks with Iran on Thursday that US officials said would need to convince them Tehran was prepared to show it was not hiding plans for a nuclear bomb.

Asian neighbours India and China will be the engines of global economic revival with 2009 growth rates of 5.4 per cent and 8.5 per cent respectively, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday.

London, Oct. 1 -- British defence firm BAE Systems could face corruption charges over allegations it spent millions in bribes to obtain lucrative foreign arms deals, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in London confirmed on Thursday.

The US will provide $5 billion in new grants for medical research, which will also create thousands of new jobs, President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday.

The honour of being the guest at the first state dinner hosted by United States President Barack Obama would go to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and it will be held during his upcoming state visit scheduled for November 24.

Film director Roman Polanski filed a formal appeal with a Swiss court on Tuesday against the arrest order for his extradition to the US.

Oxfam Great Britain on Tuesday warned that 23 million people were facing severe hunger due to climate change-exacerbated drought in East Africa. "This is the worst humanitarian crisis Oxfam has seen in East Africa for over ten years," Paul Smith Lomas, Oxfam's East Africa Director said in a statement. "Failed and unpredictable rains are ever more regular across East Africa ...

When Manmohan Singh and Montek Singh Ahluwalia addressed the press in the final hours of the Group of 20 summit, they wore satisfied smiles. It?s not often two people get a chance to midwife a new global economic order.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday denounced Western reaction to news that Tehran was building a second uranium enrichment plant and said Iran had complied with all international regulation.

India was open in saying it had worked to ensure the Group of 20 Pittsburgh summit addressed climate change in only the blandest language.

If the White House had announced it was holding the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh in 1950, few would have been surprised. At that point, Pittsburgh had three-quarter of a million people and was home to nearly half the steel production of the United States.

Pittsburgh, Sept. 25 -- Hundreds of police and military officers patrolled the streets of the US city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and were on high alert behind steel and concrete barricades as world leaders kicked off the two-day Group of 20 (G20) summit.

The Libyan media on Thursday hailed leader Muammer Gaddafi's epic 95-minute speech at the United Nations as radical, detailed and in-depth.

Some 200 tonnes of Cold War-era meat, some as old as 26 years, has been delivered to Polish pre-schools, nursing homes and grocery stores after controllers overlooked the expiry dates, local media reported on Thursday.