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A suicide bombing in Iraq has killed at least 40 people and injured at least 72 more, according to local police.

Amidst ongoing Israeli bombings of Gaza, with the death toll of the bombardments up to 537 with another 2,500 people wounded, UN food agencies again warned that the people of Gaza are facing a heavy humanitarian crisis.

Three British geology students of Imperial College London have been fined in China for "illegal survey and map-making activities", according to local media.

The owner of the Santika Club, site of the 2009 Bangkok nightclub fire, is to be charged along with twelve other directors over the disaster. 62 people were killed and 229 injured by the blaze,

As 2008 approaches its end and we think back on all the big films of the year, we must take time to look forward at what is to come.

Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has won a landslide victory in Monday's first Bangladesh election since 2001,