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June 27, 2011

Cee Lo Green Leaves Rihanna’s ‘LOUD’ Tour

According to Billboard, Cee Lo Green says he’s leaving the tour due to his commitments as a judge on the NBC reality TV show “The Voice,” as well as working on a new album and writing a book. “He always puts 100 percent into his work and with the…

June 27, 2011

Deadly bombing in north Nigeria

A bomb attack in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri has killed at…

June 27, 2011

Trial of 4 Top Khmer Rouge Leaders Opens in Cambodia

Cambodia's U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal has opened the trial of the top four surviving leaders of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, accused of genocide and other atrocities in the late 1970s. The defendants are Khieu Samphan, 79, the nominal head…

June 27, 2011

US Official: China’s Military Expansion Raises Concerns in Asia- Pacific

A top U.S. official for East Asian and Pacific affairs says the U.S. government has conveyed to China that its military expansion is raising concerns in the region. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell spoke to reporters in Honolulu,…

June 27, 2011

Palestinians to Seek UN Recognition in September

The Palestinian Authority says it will go to the United Nations in September and ask for recognition of an independent state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, a move opposed by both Israel and the United States. The official…

June 25, 2011

Bank of England calls for audit of eurozone crisis risk

The Bank of England's new financial policy committee (FPC) has called for an audit of UK…

June 25, 2011

Conrad Black ordered back to prison

A US judge has resentenced former media tycoon Conrad Black to 42 months in prison for fraud and obstruction. He is likely to serve just 13 months because of time already served. The Canadian-born British peer was convicted in 2007 of defrauding…

June 25, 2011

US economic growth is revised upwards

The US economy grew at an annualised rate of 1.9% in the first three months of the year, slightly faster than previously thought, official figures have shown. This equates to a 0.5% quarterly rise. The last estimate by the Commerce Department…

June 25, 2011

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao due in UK

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is due to arrive in the UK later for the UK-China Strategic Summit. Mr Wen will visit the MG car plant at Longbridge, near Birmingham, on Sunday. The plant used to make MG Rover cars, but is now owned by China's Shanghai…

June 25, 2011

Labour lost touch with public and members – Ed Miliband

Labour leader Ed Miliband is to admit his party's leadership lost touch both with its own…