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Published:Monday | December 5, 2011 | 12:00 AM

BRUSSELS (AP): Europe's sovereign-debt crisis, which has dragged on for more than two years, has entered a pivotal week, as leaders across the continent converge to prevent a collapse of the euro and a financial panic...

Published:Monday | December 5, 2011 | 12:00 AM

With the implosion of Herman Cain's campaign amid accusations of adultery and sexual harassment, the once-crowded 2012 United States Republican presidential field appears to be narrowing to a two-man race between Mitt...

Published:Friday | December 2, 2011 | 10:27 AM

The release of results in the first round of voting from Egypt's historic election has been postponed.

Published:Friday | December 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM

HARARE, (AP): Zimbabwe's prime minister yesterday said he has ended a relationship with a woman who claims they married in a traditional ceremony after she became pregnant, saying their affair turned out to be choreographed political...

Published:Friday | December 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM

SKOPJE, (AP):Police in Macedonia have arrested 87 people accused of issuing €2 million ($2.7 million) in fake highway toll receipts, mostly to foreign travelers during the peak summer season.

Published:Friday | December 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) yesterday ranked Barbados as the least corrupt country in the region.A report released by the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency...

Published:Friday | December 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM

LAGOS, (AP):At least 5,000 people have fled villages in central Nigeria at the heart of clashes between nomadic cattle herders and farmers, officials said yesterday, as at least five people...

Published:Tuesday | November 29, 2011 | 1:04 PM

BEIJING (AP) — The world should get ready for a new Made in China product — vaccines.

Published:Tuesday | November 29, 2011 | 1:02 PM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The eurozone's 17 finance ministers converged on EU headquarters Tuesday in a desperate bid to save their currency — and to protect Europe, the United States, Asia and the rest of the global economy from a debt-induced financial tsunami.

Published:Tuesday | November 29, 2011 | 1:01 PM

CALDWELL, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio teenager charged with aggravated murder in a scheme authorities say lured Craigslist job-seekers into lethal robberies is not a monster, but a "scared little boy," his mother says.

Published:Tuesday | November 29, 2011 | 1:00 PM

he doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson has been sentenced to the maximum term of four years behind bars.

Published:Monday | November 28, 2011 | 10:39 AM

MOSCOW (AP) — A private investigation into the death of a Russian lawyer who had reported official corruption in his country concluded Monday that he was severely beaten and denied medical treatment in prison, and accused the government of failing to pros

Published:Monday | November 28, 2011 | 10:38 AM

DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — Global warming already is causing suffering and conflict in Africa, from drought in Sudan and Somalia to flooding in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma said Monday, urging delegates at an international climate conference to loo

Published:Sunday | November 27, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Brussels, Belgium:The average European is in a state of extreme agitation, if the pulse of Brussels, the centre of the European Union (EU), can be regarded as an accurate gauge.

Published:Sunday | November 27, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Drivers passing Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo curse the protesters.

Published:Sunday | November 27, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Moammar Gadhafi's forces tried to flee Tripoli with a sack of ancient Roman artefacts in hopes of selling them abroad to help fund their doomed fight, Libya's new leaders said yesterday as they displayed the recovered objects for the first time.

Published:Friday | November 25, 2011 | 11:47 AM

Twelve spies attached to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), have reportedly been arrested in Iran.

Published:Friday | November 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PHOENIX (AP):A small airplane slammed into a sheer cliff in the mile-high mountains east of Phoenix and exploded, killing the six people on-board, including the pilot and his three young children who were to spend the Thanksgiving weekend with him...

Published:Friday | November 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

COLOMBO (AP): The United Nations human rights chief urged the Maldives yesterday to end the "degrading" practice of flogging women found to have had sex outside marriage. ...

Published:Friday | November 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

GUADALAJARA (AP):The bound and gagged bodies of 26 men were found dumped before dawn yesterday in the heart of the picturesque city of Guadalajara, a sign that full-scale war between drug cartels may have come to the metropolis that hosted last month's...

Published:Thursday | November 24, 2011 | 9:48 AM

A small airplane with three men and three young children onboard crashed Wednesday evening into mile-high mountains east of Phoenix while going around 200 mph, the Pinal County sheriff said.

Published:Thursday | November 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Russia's president threatened yesterday to deploy missiles to target the United State's missile shield in Europe if Washington fails to assuage Moscow's concerns about its plans, a harsh warning that reflected deep cracks in US-Russian ties...

Published:Thursday | November 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

More than 77 elephants have died in a three-month heatwave that has dried up watering holes in western Zimbabwe, wildlife authorities reported yesterday.Rangers in the Hwange National Park have counted 18 calves and 21 adolescent elephants...

Published:Thursday | November 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Sixteen men were shot dead and burned in two pickup trucks in the western city of Culiacan, officials said yesterday, and seven other people were slain in the same state....

Published:Wednesday | November 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM

MINEOLA (AP):Twenty people have now been implicated in a college entrance exam cheating scandal in New York.Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice says 13 more current and former high school students have been implicated in the scandal.

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