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The world economy will slow sharply this year and next, with the United States likely sliding into recession reflecting mounting damage from the most dangerous financial jolt in more than a half-century.

Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, is the most recent public figure to have a fatwa issued against him. The fatwa, an Islamic legal pronouncement issued by a religious law expert, often calls for the murder of said person.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistani troops fired at American reconnaissance helicopters patrolling the Afghan-Pakistan border Thursday, heightening tensions as the U.S. steps up cross-border operations in a region known as a haven for Taliban and al-Qaida militants.

Cries of adulation — and hunger — followed Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean and actor Matt Damon as they toured flood-ravaged Gonaives to call attention to widespread suffering in the marooned city.

Usain Bolt returned to Jamaica this week after heading to Brussels, Belgium for the Van Damme memorial last Friday. Bolt captured another first place medal to cap off his sensational summer, and ended his journey at Norman Manley Airport in Kingston. Fellow Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell took second in the Van Damme, with Nesta Carter taking […]

Nigeria’s president called Thursday for help finding a way to fingerprint crude oil stocks in order to combat the theft and lucrative overseas sale of unrefined petroleum, aiming at stopping the flow of “blood oil” from Africa’s biggest producers.

Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.

A farmer who threw the body of his fired worker into a lions enclosure is out on parole after less than three years in prison, South African media reported Thursday.

Snoop Dogg has gone Bollywood. He does the rap to open the movie “Singh is Kinng,” a Bollywood flick that opens tomorrow. At the beginning of the song, he raps: “Yo, what up. This Big Snoop Dogg. Represent the Punjabi. Aye ya, Hit em with this.” While the movie is Indian, Snoop brings a bit […]

Israel will almost surely boycott the next U.N. racism conference in Geneva, its ambassador said Wednesday, warning that the meeting is likely to sink into the same anti-Semitism that prompted the U.S. and Israel to walk out of the last one seven years ago.

South African president-in-waiting Jacob Zuma made a bid Monday to get corruption and fraud charges against him thrown out of court — and thereby remove a major obstacle he faces to becoming the nation’s next leader.

Zimbabwe’s opposition party said Thursday that four of its activists were killed in a firebombing near Harare amid growing concerns that President Robert Mugabe will use a violent crackdown to steal an upcoming runoff election.