Chavez's condition 'complicated'

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is aware that his condition is complicated following a fourth cancer operation in Cuba, Vice-President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday, as the OPEC nation watches for clues to the socialist leader's health.

New Delhi rapists tried to 'run over victim'

A gang of rapists who savagely assaulted a woman on a bus in New Delhi last month tried to run her over after the attack which left her fatally injured, reports said on Wednesday, citing a police account of the incident.

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Frigid night doesn't stop 2013 parties

Throngs of revelers in and around New York's Times Square bade farewell to 2012 and extended a raucous greeting to 2013 early on Tuesday.

DPRK top leader vows to boost economy in New Year address

Making his first new year's speech, Kim Jong-un, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, called on Tuesday for his country to focus on economic improvements with the same urgency that scientists put into the launch of a long-range rocket last month.

Foreign tourists describe icy US bus crash

Survivors of a bus crash that killed nine people on a partly icy section of interstate in rural Eastern Oregon said on Monday that some passengers were thrown from the vehicle through broken windows after it skidded out of control, smashed through a guardrail and plummeted 60 meters down an embankment.

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China to boost public diplomacy, exchanges

Public diplomacy is a major direction for China to explore in the future, and tangible efforts will be made to boost public diplomacy and cultural exchanges, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said in Beijing on Monday.

African Union head proposes national unity govt for CAR

The head of the African Union, Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi, has proposed a government of national unity to resolve the rebel conflict in the Central African Republic.

Mood darkens as 'fiscal cliff' looms for US

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are on the brink of letting their nation slide over the so-called fiscal cliff - leaving senators to fume that nobody does dysfunction better than Congress.

Clinton admitted to hospital after blood clot found

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital on Sunday with a blood clot linked to a concussion she suffered earlier this month, the State Department said.

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