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Tanner Cohen, left, and Nathaniel David Becker in “Were the World Mine,” inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Lingerie model Karolina Kurkova has been voted the world's sexiest woman by E! entertainment television, beating sultry actresses Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson for the honor.

NATO is ready to strengthen its ties with Africa, but Africa should come up with solutions to its problems and not expect NATO to police the world, its secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday.

Top U.S. intelligence analysts have released a report on what they think the world could look like in the year 2025, if current trends continue. They predict the U.S. probably won't be the dominant world power. And they say countries will be fighting over food, water, energy and other scarce resources. But there's some good news in the report: Terrorism may be on the wane.

World stocks fell sharply Thursday as fears of a deep global recession gripped markets and sent oil prices below $50 a barrel to levels not seen in more than three years.

Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The International Finance Corp. , the World Bank's investment arm, said it will help lenders in Indonesia to finance small-scale palm oil growers to encourage so-called sustainable practices and forestall climate change.