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Nelson Mandela turned 93 on Monday surrounded by family, as South Africans paid tribute to his legacy by performing at least 67 minutes of public service.

Egypt’s prime minister has appointed 14 new ministers and kept 13 in their current positions in a much anticipated government reshuffle that attempted to satisfy opposition protesters that accused the country’s military rulers and the prime minister of…

Hosni Mubarak, the onetime Egyptian strongman who was toppled by a popular uprising in February, has regained consciousness after lapsing into a coma Sunday, a top hospital official said.

London’s police chief says he’ll resign as a result of the widening phone-hacking scandal that has rocked his department. Also Sunday, former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was arrested. FULL STORY | Brooks arrested

Fighting between Libyan rebels and government troops raged around the eastern Libyan oil town of Brega throughout the weekend as NATO warplanes launched a sustained pre-dawn raid on Tripoli’s eastern suburbs.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in Cuba where he is expected to continue cancer treatment.

Bret has become the second tropical storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, according to the National Weather Service.

The United Nations airlifted emergency supplies to help children in drought-hit Somalia after Islamist rebels pledged to lift an aid ban it had imposed in areas under its control in the war-ravaged nation.

A key adviser of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a parliament member were killed Sunday in a home west of Kabul, officials said.