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Members of Britain's royal family were "waiting by the telephone" for word of the imminent birth of Prince William and his wife Kate's first child.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-left rivals have gone on the attack over reports of sweeping US online surveillance and German cooperation, sparked by fugitive intelligence analyst Edward Snowden.
Gay marriage is to become legal in England and Wales after the lower house of the British parliament approved the final changes on Tuesday to a law that had Prime Minister David Cameron's backing but split his ruling Conservative party.
China and Belarus established signed a dozen cooperation papers, including the offer of loans for Belarus' first nuclear power plant.
Fugitive US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has filed an official request for temporary asylum in Russia.
Spain apologized on Monday for its part in the events that led Bolivian President Evo Morales'plane to be delayed earlier this month during an international search for US fugitive Edward Snowden.
"Each degree of global warming is likely to raise sea level by more than 2 meters in the future," the Germany-based Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) said in a statement.
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he wanted Edward Snowden to leave after three weeks holed up at a Moscow airport.
Fugitive US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden will leave Russia when opportunity emerges, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
Significant progress was made last year in strengthening nuclear safety around the world, the UN atomic watchdog said in its annual review.
British Prime Minister David Cameron fell victim to a Twitter spoof on Monday.
Edward Snowden possesses data that could prove far more "damaging" to the US government that he has chosen not to release, said a journalist who first broke the story.