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Kosovo's parliament declared the disputed territory a nation on Sunday, mounting a historic bid to become an "independent and democratic state" backed by the U.S. and European allies but bitterly contested by Serbia and Russia.

India's new $2,500 Nano just may change the lives of millions of the world's poor.

Located behind a series of concrete and barbed wire barricades in a Christian enclave of Baghdad, two things distinguish the Iraq Stock Exchange, the ISX, from its counterparts in New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and London: the trading is done manually, and two cordial plainclothes guards at the white plastic table in the courtyard are happy to check your guns for you.

Anonymous donor gives $130 million to cyclone-hit Bangladesh

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In a determined bid to curb the exploitation of children, the government has prohibited their employment as servants at home or in businesses.

Millions of people cast ballots in Congo's first multiparty vote in four decades Sunday, the culmination of years of postwar transition that many pray will herald stability for their nation and the tumultuous heart of Africa it anchors.