Jaguar Land Rover and Chery Automobile Co are seeking regulatory approval for a 17.5 billion yuan car venture in eastern China, two people with direct knowledge of the deal told Reuters on Monday.

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Vladimir Putin faces new protests on Monday to challenge his victory in a presidential election he said had prevented Russia from falling into the hands of enemies trying to usurp power.

Putin's oppo

Iceland began the trial on Monday of former prime minister Geir Haarde for failing to prevent a 2008 financial crash, thought to be the only prosecution in the world of a political leader over the cri

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won a six-year term as Russia's president in an election on Sunday, exit polls showed.

Putin won 58.3 per cent of the vote, enough to avoid a second-round runoff, an exi

US Coast Guard officials have located the bodies of two of three helicopter crew members missing since a four-man aircraft crashed into Alabama's Mobile Bay during a training exercise on Tuesday.

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A tough-talking Arizona sheriff, already embroiled in a Justice Department bias investigation, waded deeper into controversy on Thursday with an assertion that a probe by his office found President Ba

Iranians voted on Friday in a parliamentary election likely to reinforce Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's power over rival hardliners led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iranian leaders were

For Facebook it must look like a no-brainer - exploit its huge consumer loyalty and half a billion mobile phone users as a way of opening up the mobile market to blue chip advertisers.

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Russia's Vladimir Putin promised he would not crack down on Russia's burgeoning opposition movement following his likely election as president on Sunday, but rejected protesters' calls for early parli

Long-time Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, stranded in the desert after rebels and a NATO missile strike wrecked his escape convoy last October, apparently wanted to stage a last stand as his enemies cl