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American singer Donna Summer, who rose to fame with disco-era hits including Love to Love You Baby, Last Dance and Hot Stuff, has died of cancer at age 63.

Social networking giant Facebook has priced its initial public offering at $38 US a share, making it the largest internet IPO. Shares will begin trading on the Nasdaq tomorrow.

Police in Frankfurt were preparing for as many as 30,000 protesters to join in the so-called "Blockupy" demonstration underway in Germany's financial capital.

On Sunday, an 8-foot tall, 24-foot-wide Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton will be going up for auction in New York city.

Hundreds of Greeks huddled beneath umbrellas and sat on the stone steps of the ancient stadium in Athens on Thursday to watch the ceremonial handover of the Olympic flame to the organizers of the 2012 London Olympics.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says that if Google does not restore the name of the Persian Gulf on Google Maps, it will face "serious damages."

Homosexuality in China was decriminalized years ago, but pressure from parents and society often means that gay men go to extreme lengths to hide their sexuality.

Three members of the children's music quartet The Wiggles will be hanging up their colourful outfits and leaving the Australian band this year, with the Blue Wiggle the lone original member left dancing.

A North Korean boat hijacked three boats with 29 Chinese fishermen on board and demanded 1.2 million yuan, or $190,000, for their release, Chinese media reports.

Greece's caretaker cabinet was sworn in Thursday and will lead the country into next month's election, after a deadlocked vote sparked more political turmoil and brought the country's use of the euro currency into question.

Hardware and software provided by foreign suppliers could compromise the security of Canada's telecommunication systems and leave them vulnerable to attack, computer experts warn.

Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal accused of 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.