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Japanese engineering giant Hitachi is set to buy Horizon, a joint venture planning to build nuclear reactors in Britain, in a deal valued at 50 billion yen ($628 million),...

In 1999, when Mitt Romney was put in charge of organizing the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, there was an unusual company among those angling to...

In exclusive interview, Brahimi tells Al Jazeera the situation in Syria is worsening and poses huge threat to region. Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN and Arab League's special envoy for Syria,...

Levels of radioactive contamination in fish caught off the east coast of Japan remain raised, official data shows. It is a sign that the Dai-ichi power plant continues to...

Pope Benedict XVI named seven new saints on Sunday, including the first Native American, praising their "heroic courage" as the Catholic Church seeks to counter a rising tide of...

Older women who regularly drink green tea may have slightly lower risks of colon, stomach and throat cancers than women who make no time for tea, a large study...

One of India's most popular comedians Jaspal Bhatti has died in a road crash in Jalandhar city in Punjab state. Mr Bhatti, 57, was travelling from Moga to Jalandhar...

Legendary rock band Thin Lizzy will be giving a concert in Turkey on November 11 at Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park as part of the Avea Escape to Music concerts.  The band is...