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Former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated yesterday in Pakistan, is to be buried in the family’s ancestral grave

Miss Bhutto was always aware that her life was under threat.

A 17 year-old California teen was mauled to death by a Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day

At least 17 bodies have been recovered following three explosions in the centre of the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown.

South Africa’s top prosecutor says there is enough evidence to charge the new leader of the governing party with corruption.

The United Nations is investigating allegations of corrupt contracts linked to its peacekeeping missions.

A United States prosecutor has claimed that three covert Venezuelan agents offered $2 million to hush an alleged attempt to pump $800,000 from Venezuela into the Argentinean presidential campaign.

The government of Zimbabwe will be amending its tough security and media laws in response to opposition demands.

Iraqi oil production is now above the levels seen before the US-led invasion of the country in 2003.

Lawmakers in the US state of New Jersey have approved a bill abolishing the death penalty.