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Iran pardons two Swedish men jailed for photographing military installations and says it will set them free. More Info...  

At least eight people die as powerful spring storms batter eastern US, triggering widespread flooding. More Info...  

Actor Richard Gere's embrace with Indian star Shilpa Shetty causes outrage for offending the country's culture. More Info...  

The BBC says it still has no independent verification that Palestinian militants have killed reporter Alan Johnston. More Info...  

Nigeria's Supreme Court rules the vice-president should contest Saturday's presidential elections. More Info...  

Sudan agrees to allow 3,000 UN troops into Darfur to support struggling African Union peacekeepers. More Info...  

At least 13 Iraqi soldiers have been killed in an ambush in the northern city of Mosul, police say. More Info...  

Russia asks the UK to extradite tycoon Boris Berezovsky, who called for President Putin to be ousted. More Info...  

The smoking ban in Ireland has cut air pollution in pubs and improved bar-workers' health, a study has found. More Info...  

A leading tribe near the Afghan border urges Pakistan's government to resume control of law and order there. More Info...  

Cheers greet the knocking down of a checkpoint as a five-year-old buffer zone dividing Ivory Coast is dismantled. More Info...  

An American-Korean man is jailed for nine years by a South Korean court for spying for the Communist North. More Info...  

People in this country have been volunteering at record levels in the years following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but that voluntary service dipped slightly in 2006, a study found.

Jose Padilla, the man once accused of planning a US radioactive bomb attack, is going on trial in Florida. More Info...  

Tens of thousands protest in the Pakistani city of Karachi against a radical mosque in Islamabad. More Info...  

The Vatican envoy to Israel attends a Holocaust memorial event soothing a row over a museum exhibit. More Info...  

The UK must act quickly to ensure it is in shape to cope with growing net use, warns a report. More Info...  

The BBC said Sunday it is "deeply concerned" about an unknown militant group's claim that it has killed a BBC reporter kidnapped last month in Gaza, but is treating the statement as a "rumor with no independent verification."

Anti-U.S. Shiite cleric and militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr will announce Monday the departure of his movement's six ministers from Iraq's government to press demands for the U.S. to leave Iraq, the bloc's spokesman Saleh al-Ageili told CNN.

Radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr will withdraw his Cabinet ministers from Iraq's coalition government, officials say. More Info...