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A Korean contender for top U.N. post

The Korea Herald: Since the beginning of the year, South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon has been busily touring the capitals of the nations that compose the 15-member U.N. Security Council. He has visited Washing...

Latin America faces year of change

BBC News: The key issue is whether the recent left-wing trend in the region will continue, and if so, what will be the likely nature of any new left-leaning government. Will it be of the President Hugo Chavez...

Rice kicks off Mideast tour with Egypt talks

Khaleej Times: CAIRO - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice kicked off a five-day tour of the Middle East in Egypt Tuesday, amid new strains with Cairo over the pace of democratic reform. Developments in Iraq, c...

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Raw rift among Democrats over Iraq

Democrats say a long-standing rift in the party over the Iraq war has grown increasingly raw in recent days, as stay-the-course elected leaders who voted for the war three years ago confront rising... Gulf News

The forward march of liberty has been halted - even reversed

The erosion of liberty. Four words sum up four years. Since the attacks of September 11 2001, we have seen an erosion of liberty in most established democracies. If he's still alive, Osama bin Laden m... The Guardian

Core group to discuss key UN charter

Less than three weeks before a UN summit opens, the 191 UN member states have finally agreed to let about 30 nations take the lead in trying to resolve major differences in a document that world leader... Al Jazeera

UN envoys in crisis talks on new summit document

By Evelyn Leopold: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly agreed on Friday to a negotiating group of some 30 nations, including the United States, to try to rescue a mid-September... Swiss info English

Climate change map reveals countries most under threat

Scientists have compiled one of the first comprehensive pictures of what the world might be like when climate change begins to trigger a dramatic increase in epidemics, disease and death. Teams of s... The Independent

JFK considered using nuclear bomb on China, tapes reveal

WASHINGTON - There are crackles on the tape but the message is clear. President John F Kennedy and his advisers considered using nuclear weapons against China if the Communist nation attacked India a ... NZ Herald

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7th August 1987, swimmer Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim the Bering Strait between the USA and Russia. Despite the cold, she manages the feat in two hours and six minutes. Read today's international news here

Scots Historian James Anderson is born on the 5th August 1728. A lawyer by profession, Anderson writes some of the earliest books on Scottish history including works on Mary Queen of Scots and Scotland's relationship with England. For more famous Scots click here

Robert Allan, poet and songwriter, was born in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, on the 4th November in 1774. His works, published by Robert Burns Hardy of Glasgow, while attracting a great deal of admiration from lovers of Scottish song, failed to earn him enough money to continue his legacy. He emigrated to America in 1841 to see his youngest son, where he died a couple of months later. To read more about Great Scots click here

James Clerk Maxwell, mathematician and physicist, died on the 5th November in 1879. Born in Edinburgh, Maxwell was most famous for the "Maxwell equations", which relate to the behaviour of electric and magnetic fields and which later paved the way for technological advances such as radio and x-ray. Read more here