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A series of reports found that about a third of women have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner.
France and Spain led a Europe-wide push on Thursday to get US Internet giant Google to change its policies on collecting user data.
An Icelandic businessman linked to WikiLeaks said he has readied a private plane to take Edward Snowden to Iceland if the government grants him asylum.
Michelle Obama and her daughters threaded roses through the narrow slots of a Berlin Wall memorial on Wednesday, honouring those who died trying to cross the Cold War barrier at a site which holds special poignancy in the once divided city.
The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide by the end of 2012.
Actor James Gandolfini, best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of a conflicted New Jersey mob boss in the acclaimed HBO cable television series "The Sopranos," has died while vacationing in Rome, the network said on Wednesday.
The G8 summit closed on Tuesday amid consensuses, compromises and differences over various issues, in particular the Syria crisis this time.
President Barack Obama will announce on Tuesday he will pursue a new reduction in deployed nuclear weapons.
Syrian analysts said that the G8 leaders brought "nothing new" on the Syrian issue during their two-day summit at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland.
US President Barack Obama's visit to Germany is expected to be overshadowed by pubic outcry over concerns about intrusion into privacy.
France pledged to further secure Chinese safety after a violent attack on Chinese students in southwest France。
Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations gathered in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland on Tuesday for the second and final day of their summit.