Google says U.S. Internet too slow

Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one that’s free of government censorship and barriers to information access.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it is important for Argentina and Britain to hold talks about the disputed Falkland Islands, but she did not commit to mediating them.

Seven suspects arrested in connection with last year’s attacks on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai were charged in connection with the siege Wednesday, a defense attorney for one of the men told CNN.

Iceland’s voters overwhelmingly reject a deal to pay billions of dollars it owes to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the Foreign Ministry has said.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has suspended the transfer ban placed on English Premier League side Chelsea after the side appealed against the ruling made by football’s world governing body FIFA.

A proposed partnership between the French government and Google is stoking fears in France that the country’s literary treasures will fall under commercial control of a U.S. technology company.

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Typhoon Parma crossed the northern tip of the already storm-battered Philippines on Saturday and early Sunday, triggering landslides that killed at least 12 people, local media reported. At least three other deaths related to the storms were confirmed earlier.

U.S. President Barack Obama, meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Seoul on Thursday, said he will send envoy Stephen Bosworth to North Korea next month for talks on dismantling its nuclear program.

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India’s British past stands imposing in some of its most splendid buildings. But the country is erecting a tribute to its French connection to attract tourists.

Mountains of peanut shells are spread out across Shengchang Bioenergy’s property on the outskirts of Beijing. Local farmers drive in and out, unloading dried corn stalks in exchange for a small fee.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Thursday that a “new information curtain is descending across much of the world.”

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As the credit crunch started to bite last autumn, police forces throughout Europe noticed a shift in the focus of large criminal syndicates away from their traditional activities of drugs and prostitutes towards counterfeit and financial crimes.

A passport in the name of Said Bahaji, a suspect linked to the 2001 terror attacks in the U.S., has been found in a town captured from the Taliban by Pakistani forces.