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Rebel general Sultani Makenga among Congolese rebels to lay down arms to end 18-month uprising.

The TUC says women are still earning on average almost £5,000 a year less than men.

PLA Unit 61398 had stolen hundreds of terabytes of data from organisations mostly in the US, Canada and Britain.

M23 leader Bertrand Bisimwa said rebels will engage in talks to resolve grievances.

Stars like Sachin Tendulkar make way for Gujarat chief minister and slain al-Qaida leader.

TUC and the Work Foundation say just one in a hundred young women worked in skilled trades in 2011.

Charities bracing for rollback in aid and more cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Leader of the right-wing South African group Boeremag sentenced to 35 years for plotting coup

Israeli experts reportedly thwarted a Trojan attack targeting its defence projects.

Thousands March in Washington Against US Surveillance Policies

Five killed and scores injured in at least eight low-intensity explosions.

Move to help P Chidambaram meet the fiscal deficit target of 4.8% of GDP.

Australia is forecast to reach its current A$300bn ceiling in December.

Uruguay hopes that enforcing rules for production, distribution and sale of cannabis will stop drug violence.

Curbing bonuses doesn't mean less cash is being paid out, it means salaries are rising

Four Santiago neo-Nazis carved swastikas into 24-year-old's body and cut him with broken glass before beating him to death.

US Senate earlier agreed on last-minute deal to raise US debt ceiling and end deadlock.

Washington sources claim Republicans and Democrats have brokered 11th-hour truce to avert default and end months-long gridlock.

The Trussell Trust says it has seen 355,985 people receive emergency packets from the charity's food banks between April and September 2013.

US lawmakers have less than 24 hours to raise the government's debt limit.

Energy giant CEO Peter Voser explains why shale gas will not bring short-term profits to the company

UK will release September inflation data on 15 October.

Price increase to be limited as strong dollar pushes down commodity rates.

Gold forecast to lose lustre as safe bet in times of uncertainty as US crisis set to end.

Britain's Royal Mail's shares leap 36% in on their London trading debut.

Democrats refuse to buy Republican proposal for short-term extension of Treasury's borrowing powers as it is not tied to plan to re-finance government.

Libyan Prime Minister was released after being seized by gunmen at his Tripoli hotel.

President Barack Obama is due to meet Republicans on 10 October.

Officials still said that there was no way to avoid an eventual default if debt limit is not raised.

Uighur activists claim arrests are part of crackdown on their ethnic group in northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang