India's top law enforcement official has admitted there were government "lapses" during last week's terror attack on Mumbai, amid outrage over security and intelligence failures, according to reports.

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President Robert Mugabe hinted he may form a Cabinet without the opposition and call for early elections in Zimbabwe to resolve the impasse over a stalled power-sharing deal.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper say his nation's governor general has allowed him to suspend Parliament, postponing a no-confidence vote from his opponents that he was likely to lose.

Citing the global economic slowdown, Honda on Friday announced it would withdraw from Formula One participation.

Armed robbers -- some dressed as women -- have stolen an estimated €80 million ($102m) in jewels during a brazen raid at a central Paris store, French police say.

Kept in a derelict warehouse at Baghdad's airport for months, sleeping four to a bed with poor food and no money, hundreds of would-be contract workers are stranded, claiming they were duped by unscrupulous recruiting agents into coming to Iraq for nonexistent jobs.

Seven Somali men in possession of rocket grenades and AK-47 guns were rescued by a Danish Navy ship in the pirate-plagued Gulf of Aden Wednesday, the Danish Navy told CNN.