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Ten million people or more are in dire need of food and other assistance because aid workers cannot reach them, the UN's humanitarian chief has warned.

Ten leading US climate scientists spoke on Tuesday of the need for more urgent action to tackle global warming.

Global climate patterns stretching back 740,000 years have been confirmed by a three-kilometre-long ice core drilled from the Antarctic, Nature reports.

If you think oil prices are high at $40 a barrel then wait till they are four times that much.

Nisan 2004'te 18 yıl cezaevinde kaldıktan sonra serbest bırakıldı. İsrail'in nükleer programını tüm dünyaya açıkladığı için bu cezaya çarptırılmıştı. Cezaevinden çıktıktan sonra yabancılarla konuşması, serbestçe seyahat etmesi ya da ülkeden ayrılması yasaklandı.

To call George Tenet's tenure at the CIA controversial would be an understatement.

Photographs appearing to show a British soldier abusing an Iraqi man may still prove false, but coalition troops have certainly mistreated captives on other occasions. Should we be surprised?

The Neanderthals reached adulthood at the tender age of 15 according to a report in the journal Nature.

The US has sent additional heavy tanks and armoured vehicles to Iraq to combat the recent upsurge in attacks on its forces there.

Akşam saatlerinde küçük dükkandan içeriye girdiğimizde, bir sehpanın çevresinde oturmuş beş altı kişi kafalarını kaldırıp "Hoşgeldiniz" dedikten sonra işlerine devam ediyorlar...

President Thabo Mbeki has been sworn in for a second term in office on a day of celebration in South Africa - marking 10 years of multi-racial democracy.

In fairness to the South Africans they do organise these sort of events rather well.

Haklarında yapılan haberlere bakıldığında Süryanilerin göç ettikleri yerlerden Tur-Abidin'e geri döndükleri anlaşılıyor.

Senior Turkish politicians have expressed disappointment at the result of the reunification referendum on the island of Cyprus, which was defeated by a large margin in the Greek Cypriot south.

The effects of climate change mean there is increasing acceptance by Britons of spring arriving early, scientists say.

Iranians go to the polls on Friday in their seventh general elections under the Islamic Republic, amidst a widespread assumption that conservatives will regain parliament from the reformists who swept into the Majlis in 2000.

Many of the defining moments of 2003 spawned their own words and phrases. Now in its fifth year, the E-cyclopedia again takes stock of these additions to the news lexicon.

The statistics speak for themselves: three people hit by stray bullets, two suspected victims of violent attack and an attempted carjacking - and that was just in the first hour.

The full text of a roadmap to peace in the Middle East, presented to Palestinian and Israeli leaders by Quartet mediators - the United Nations, European Union, United States and Russia.

The Pentagon has confirmed it is conducting an investigation into Army General Tommy Franks, the man set to command United States forces in any war with Iraq. A spokesman said the inquiry was being carried out by the office of Defence Department Inspector General Joseph Schmitz.

There have been more than 70 Palestinian bomb attacks aimed at Israelis since the current conflict erupted in September 2000. Below are some of the most deadly.

The following is the full text of US President George W Bush's speech at Ellis Island off New York on the first anniversary of the 11 September attacks.

Turkey was one of the few countries to which the 11 September atrocities presented a silver lining as well as the pall of macro-economic instability and individual disaster.

Scott Ritter, a former senior UN weapons inspector in Iraq, has addressed a special session of the Iraqi National Assembly's Arab and Foreign Relations Committee in Baghdad.

Britain secretly sold Israel a key ingredient for its nuclear programme in 1958, according to official documents obtained by BBC News.

The former United Nations chief arms inspector in Iraq, has for the first time publicly accused the US and other countries of manipulating the missions for their own political ends.

Military action against Iraq is necessary, a leading US academic has claimed, to prevent them using weapons of mass destruction.

Controversial new controls on the internet in Turkey have provoked protests from websites which fear they may be driven out of existence.

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