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Police in Tanzania have arrested 15 people in connection with the series of acid attacks in Zanzibar.  The victims have included a Roman Catholic priest and two young British women who had volunteered with a humanitarian group.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff had bad news for US President Barack Obama:  She is calling off plans to visit the White House next month because of revelations that the US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on her personal communications and those of other Brazilians.

Despite seeking psychiatric help because he was “hearing voices”, the gunman who killed 12 people at the Washington Naval Yard was not stripped of the security clearance he used to gain access to his killing ground.

Cher says she has been asked to perform at the opening of the upcoming Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia:  And she’s refusing to do it in solidarity with Russia’s embattled LGBT community.

Egypt pushes back against militants – Rare simultaneous storms wreak havoc on both coasts of Mexico – And a brave Tasmanian girl sparks the justice system into jailing a loathsome pedophile.

A gunman gathered weapons along the way as he progressed with a mass shooting inside a United States navy office building in Washington, DC.  12 people were killed in Aaron Alexis’ rampage.  Eight more people were wounded.

Crews are working around the clock on the amazing and expensive effort to salvage the Costa Concordia, pulling it off the rocks off Italy’s Tuscan coast where it ran aground and capsized in January, 2012.

The United Nations report on the 21 August chemical weapon attack on civilians outside Damascus, Syria confirms the use of Sarin gas.  The UN does not assign blame, but the US, UK, and France have seized upon it to blame the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Tokyo would get the 2020 Summer Games, the official Japanese delegation leapt for joy while the government back home breathed a sigh of relief for the validation on the world stage.  But not everyone is cheering.

A cop in North Carolina is facing Voluntary Manslaughter charges, after shooting a killing a man who had just survived a car wreck and was apparently running to officers seeking help.

There could be an historic choice to head America’s central bank – The Koreas are back to cooperating – Foul, intemperate remarks could cost a lawyer his livelihood – And we could be witnessing a remarkable Pakistani teen’s evolution into the kind of transformative leader the world sees maybe a couple of times per century.

A face-to-face meeting could be the result of a series of letters exchanged between US President Barack Obama and Iran’s new President Hassad Rouhani, a leader viewed as a moderate and a welcome break from the belligerence of his predecessor.

Workers at the crippled, radiation spewing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are preparing for the arrival of Tropical Storm Man-yi, expected on the coast on Monday.

Japan early is hutting down its last functioning nuclear reactor; and with no restart date on the horizon, it begins the longest period since the 1960s that the land of the rising sun has gone without nuclear power.

US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with his British and French counterparts in Paris on Monday to fine-tune the deal to avoid military action against Syria in retaliation for the chemical weapon attack on civilians.

A breakthrough on ending Syria’s chemical weapons menace – Revelations of US spying could scuttle an important international visit – France’s Greens demand more input on the environment – And three Aussies are amongst thousands stranded on a Chinese Cruise Liner.

Talks to avoid a US Military Strike in Syria continue – The sentence is death in a rape case that shocked the world – And, how NOT to make $50,000 per month from your own home.

Taliban militants are claiming responsibility for a suicide car bombing and gunfight with security forces near the American consulate in the western Afghanistan city of Herat.

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff is asking lawmakers to get to work on legislation that would force foreign Internet companies to store all data about their Brazilian clients on servers based in the country. 

US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday will continue urgent talks in Geneva on a plan to place Syria's chemical weapons under international control.