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Argentina frets as leader undergoes brain surgery

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 10:33 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Doctors prepared to drill into President Cristina Fernandez's skull Tuesday morning to siphon out blood that is pressuring her brain two months after she suffered an unexplained head...

The founding fathers’ fiscal crisis

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 07:58 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Americans are fond of speaking in reverential tones about “the wisdom of the Founding Fathers” – that is, the men who wrote the United States Constitution. But the manner in which...

Attacks surge in Egypt, a day after deadly clashes

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 06:46 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

A string of attacks killed nine members of Egypt's security and military forces and hit the country's main satellite communications station Monday, in an apparent retaliation by Islamic...

Pope replaces Dominican ambassador amid sex probe

Monday, 7 October 2013, 14:12 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Pope Francis has named a new ambassador to the Dominican Republic after the previous one was forcibly removed amid a sex abuse investigation.   The nomination Monday of a replacement for...

2 Americans, German win Nobel medicine prize

Monday, 7 October 2013, 12:18 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other key substances...

5 achievements that haven't won a Nobel Prize

Monday, 7 October 2013, 10:33 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The announcements of this year's Nobel Prize winners will start Monday with the medicine award and continue with physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics. The secretive award...

Financial innovation goes to school

Monday, 7 October 2013, 07:53 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Later this month, the United Nations will discuss a high-level report on global development priorities for the period following the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015. Quality...

Egypt: 51 killed in new bout of street violence

Monday, 7 October 2013, 06:24 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Security forces and Islamist protesters clashed around the country Sunday, leaving 51 killed, as a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem. Crowds from Egypt's two rival camps...

Watch: Mexican monster truck wreck kills 8, hurts dozens

Monday, 7 October 2013, 06:17 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

An out-of-control monster truck shot into a crowd of spectators at a Mexican air show, killing eight people and hurting 79, officials said. The driver was detained Sunday on suspicion of manslaughter...

Italy: Divers recover more bodies, death toll at 194

Sunday, 6 October 2013, 20:14 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

An Italian government minister born in Africa stood silently Sunday as soldiers carried body bags of would-be asylum seekers from her native continent who perished when their packed fishing boat sank...

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