The Massachusetts senator has already carried out sensitive diplomatic efforts on behalf of President Obama, with a strong focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent years.

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How does a post-industrial city manage property that no longer generates tax revenue but still needs the grass cut? One entrepreneur says he has a solution: He's buying up 1,500 empty city lots and planting thousands of trees. But where backers see a visionary proposal, critics see a land grab.

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A news conference by the National Rifle Association was interrupted twice by anti-gun protesters carrying banners.

Gangnam Style has become the first video to clock up more than one billion views on YouTube.

Angel Maria Torres has been a street vendor in Caracas for the last 32 years and has witnessed the many changes Venezuela's capital has undergone in that time.

Over 42,000 trees along a picturesque 17th Century French canal may have to be chopped down due to the spread of an infectious fungus.

David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband recorded their Christmas messages for UK forces stationed abroad.

Children's television will no longer be aired on BBC One after today with programmes moving to the dedicated CBBC digital channel.

Thousands of people have gathered at ancient sites in Central America and elsewhere in anticipation of what they believed would be the end of the world.

Creators of the sequel to The Snowman discuss the challenges of their latest work

Random acts of kindness can help businesses grow in surprising ways, says the entrepreneur behind the Rare Tea Company.

A report by the campaign group Avaaz has warned of the grave conditions facing Syrians as the violence in the country continues.

The pawnbroker shop is making a widespread comeback as the difficult economic conditions continue to squeeze household incomes.

For this year's Christmas Challenge, the BBC Breakfast presenters are hitting the velodrome to see who can cycle the fastest.

At least 61 people have died as snow and sub-zero temperatures spread across parts of eastern Europe.

More than four hundred flood warnings and alerts are in place in England, Wales and Scotland, ahead of one of the busiest travel weekends of the year.

People across the United States will observe a minute's silence later, exactly one week after a gunman killed twenty children and six members of staff at a primary school in Connecticut.

Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor star in The Impossible, a film based on the true story of one family who were caught in the deadly Boxing Day tsunami of 2004.

The bill is seen as the spending portion of Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B" legislation that he hopes to bring to bear in negotiations with President Obama on ways to avoid the "fiscal cliff" that would come unless Democrats and Republicans can agree on a comprehensive deal.

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It's been 80 years since Britain's royal family began broadcasting a Christmas message. Now, the monarch will deliver her holiday address in 3-D. It's a medium in which she's been filmed before — 59 years ago, her coronation and other events were captured by 3-D cameras.

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