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A plastic bottle filled with suspicious liquid left at a Tokyo subway station caused a Terrorism scare, after Japanese officials have been on high alert for the G-8 Summit, officials said.

Liquid containing traces of uranium leaked Tuesday at a nuclear site in southern France, and some of the solution ran into two rivers, France’s nuclear safety agency said.

Russia will be forced to make a military response if the U.S.-Czech missile defense agreement is ratified, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

The United Arab Emirates won’t run out of oil for about a century, but it’s already committing billions to help wean the world off the very product that made it rich.

Car lovers in Iraq, tired of an endless parade of sand-colored Humvees, got a bit of a treat Monday when police discovered five fancy cars — each a tad dusty — once owned by a notorious son of former dictator Saddam Hussein.

A homicide attacker detonated explosives near a police station in Pakistan’s capital on Sunday, killing at least 15 people, mostly police officers, and wounding dozens more, officials said.

If you’ve been swimming, you probably tried it at least once: dive into the water and see how far you can get without taking a stroke. Coast past 62 feet and you could have earned a gold medal at the 1904 Olympics.

A second man arrested over the murders of French students Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo has been taken to hospital.

Police in Pakistan say four explosions have rocked the city of Karachi, wounding at least 25 people.

Only the Olympics could bump Mao Zedong, the founding leader of communist China, off a Chinese banknote.