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Pushing Clinton Out Against Her Will Would Cost Obama, Der Spiegel As the Democratic battle draws to a close, German commentators, like their counterparts elsewhere, are asking what would compel Hillary Clinton to concede defeat.

Sri Lanka's ruling alliance won crucial elections in the island's war-ravaged east and hailed the result on Sunday as an endorsement of its war to defeat Tamil Tiger rebels.

The number of people reported missing in the Myanmar cyclone was about 220,000, the United Nations humanitarian agency said on Sunday, warning of environmental damage, violence and mass migration.

The new coalition government in Pakistan is working with President Pervez Musharraf 'according to the Constitution' and it was up to him to decide whether to step down or not, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said.

Accusing Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi of harassing him for his questioning a decision taken by the Sultan of Perak state, a prominent ethnic Indian Parliamentarian has said that he feared for his safety.

US President George W Bush's daughter Jenna was married on Saturday evening to Henry Hager, the son of the Virginia Republican Party chairman, in front of more than 200 family members and close friends.

Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Sunday in search of food, water and medicine but aid workers said thousands of them would die if emergency supplies do not get through soon.

Residents in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged east voted for the first time in two decades on Saturday in an election the government hopes will endorse its war to defeat Tamil Tiger rebels.

Pakistan will take action against any terrorist group operating against India from its soil and consider a request for extraditing underworld don Dawood Ibrahim if New Delhi provides 'authentic proof' in this regard, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said.

Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said on Saturday the state would not fall to Hezbollah after the group took over the Muslim part of Beirut.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani personally believes that Indian national Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death by a Islamabad court for alleged involvement in bomb attacks, should be pardoned and has asked President Pervez Musharraf to review his case.

Around six to seven cases of divorce are registered daily in the Kathmandu District Court, only 10 per cent of which fall under the legal parameter.

John Brown, eldest son of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, will attend a state primary school near their official residence at 10 Downing Street in London.

French primary school children will start studying the history of slavery from the next academic year to increase awareness in society of the suffering it caused, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Saturday.

Muslims living in the US have backed an American court's judgement that directed a Pakistani man to share half of his assets worth two million with his former wife and refused to recognise an oral divorce.

A Pakistani beauty queen who recently expressed a desire to date President Pervez Musharraf is being chided for 'bringing a bad name to Pakistan'. Reigning Miss Pakistan World Mahleej Sarkari surprised everyone last month by saying she 'loved' Musharraf and wanted to 'date' him.

The Prague zoo has launched a test programme to save the Indian crocodile-like gharial from the brink of extinction with a million-dollar pavilion for the animals to bask, and hopefully reproduce, in.

Noted writer Salman Rushdie has revealed that he emerged a better person after living in fear under a fatwa for almost a decade.

Convention tells us the route to happiness is having children. Yet, a researcher has claimed that marriage without kids is actually the key to bliss.