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BAYAMO, Cuba (Reuters) – Cuban authorities released prominent dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez late on Friday after detaining her on the eve of a Spanish activist’s high-profile manslaughter trial in the eastern city of Bayamo.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly two dozen people were injured yesterday when a bus travelling from Toronto to Brooklyn, New York, overturned while approaching an exit ramp on a New Jersey highway, according to New Jersey state police.

(Reuters) – Human rights group Amnesty International urged pop stars Rihanna and Shakira on Friday to open their eyes to recent arrests of journalists, bloggers and activists in Azerbaijan, before their performances in the former Soviet republic this month.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. companies should avoid doing business with China’s Huawei, the world’s No.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said it would seek to extradite Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States as soon as possible after the one-eyed radical preacher failed in a last-ditch legal attempt to avoid deportation yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s Amplats fired 12,000 wildcat strikers yesterday, a high-stakes attempt by the world’s biggest platinum producer to push back at a wave of illegal stoppages sweeping through the country’s mining sector and beyond.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to 7.8 percent in September and reached its lowest level since President Barack Obama took office, providing a boost to his re-election bid.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff wants to regulate strikes by public workers after a series of walkouts by civil servants in recent months paralyzed public services across Brazil.

BAYAMO, Cuba,  (Reuters) – Cuba arrested a dissident blogger and other activists one day before the start of a Spanish activist’s high-profile manslaughter trial, a rights advocate said today, in a move the U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A young model was insane when he killed and castrated a prominent Portuguese journalist in a New York hotel room, believing he could “harness the power” of the man’s severed testicles, a defense lawyer said at the start of the murder trial yesterday.

DENVER, (Reuters) – A day after a muted performance in a presidential debate, U.S.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Facebook Inc passed the 1 billion user mark in September, a level of global penetration that is a remarkable achievement for an 8-year-old social network and a heightened challenge to its quest for sustained growth.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council yesterday condemned a Syrian mortar attack on a Turkish border town that killed five people and demanded that “such violations of international law stop immediately and are not repeated.”

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Suspected Colombian drug trafficker Luis Enrique Calle has surrendered to U.S.

HARARE, (Reuters) – A police motorcyclist in Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade burned to death after crashing into a lorry in the third fatal accident since June involving the 15-vehicle convoy, notorious for sweeping through the streets at high speeds.

(Reuters) – Google Inc and a group of publishers have agreed to a settlement over making digital copies of books, capping seven years of litigation involving the search giant’s mission to become the world’s library.

LONDON, Reuters) – As a new documentary shows, the real story behind the James Bond film franchise is almost as dramatic as the 007 fantasies themselves, full of twists and turns, personality clashes, heroes, villains, beautiful women and narrow escapes.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel is hardening her stance on additional help for struggling euro zone economies like Greece and Spain as pressure from parliamentary allies and a looming election campaign shrink her room for manoeuvre in Europe.

DENVER,  (Reuters) – An aggressive Mitt Romney took the fight to President Barack Obama yesterday and the Republican candidate appeared to breathe new life into his struggling campaign with a solid performance at their first debate.

AKCAKALE, Turkey, (Reuters) – Turkish artillery hit targets inside Syria sday after a mortar bomb fired from Syrian territory killed five Turkish civilians, while NATO called for an immediate end to Syria’s “aggressive acts”.