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UN says 227m people escaped slums in past decade Dharavi slum, Mumbai, India India made "giant strides" helping people in slums like Dharavi, Mumbai Nearly a quarter of a billion people escaped life in the slums over the past decade, the United Nations says. The improvement was thanks...

Iraqi woman, 20, dies; police in Arizona say father ran her overNovember 2, 2009 7:59 p.m. EST (CNN) -- A 20-year-old woman from Iraq has died in an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after her father, police say, ran her over with a car because she had become "too Westernized." Noor Faleh...

China looks to export censorship By Michael Bristow BBC News, Beijing Fears about ethnic tension could be motivating China's censorship efforts A few days before the start of this year's Melbourne International Film Festival its executive director received an "audacious"...

Asghar Khan former Air Chief Marshal Members on this forum: I did not start this thread to besmirch this gentleman. He has given his career in the service of Pakistan. He has ordered young men to to see the fires of hell. It maybe that only such men that know and value the true meaning...

Somali man, '112', weds girl, 17 Ahmed Muhamed Dore and his new wife Safia Abdulleh Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112 years old, and his teenage wife. Ahmed Muhamed Dore - who already has 13 children by five wives - said he...