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The parks filled with statues were heralded as a celebration of India's lowest caste. Authorities in Uttar Pradesh state are now investigating whether the billion-dollar ... 

Excited, likely jet-lagged, bursting with ambition and surely a little nervous too, thousands of Olympians speaking a multitude of tongues will find and settle into their ... 

The Dalai Lama received plaudits and a prize in London Monday, but his visit to Britain has been greeted by fresh Chinese criticism. 

Emergency crews inspected schools, churches and other buildings Monday for damage as aftershocks rattled northern Italy a day after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake killed seven ... 

Bahraini officials defended the Gulf kingdom's record before the U.N.'s top human rights body Monday by insisting that the government has moved to investigate alleged abuses ... 

The Cannes Film Festival received a dose of theater Monday in the form of French director Alain Resnais' new film. "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" is a love letter to the acting ... 

People in this central Greek city are rejecting the euro before it rejects them. Apostolos Arabatzis keeps bees on his farm outside Volos, and the honey from his hives helps ... 

Greece's newly installed caretaker prime minister began talks with party leaders Monday ahead of this week's European Union summit that's expected to focus on ways of kick ... 

European stocks inched up Monday morning in spite of investors' lingering concerns that the G-8 leaders had failed to provide a concrete plan to solve the European debt crisis 

President Barack Obama says the NATO alliance agrees on a vision for post-2014 Afghanistan and is pressing world leaders to implement that strategy following a decade of war. 

A Myanmar negotiator says ethnic Shan rebels have agreed in a second round of talks to end fighting with army troops in the country's east, the latest reported deal between ... 

It was what President Barack Obama called a "war of necessity," a conflict thrust upon America by the 9/11 attacks. As NATO's mission here winds down nearly 11 years later, ...