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Germany's coalition government has announced a reversal of policy that will see all the country's nuclear power plants phased out by 2022.

Florida (AP): The astronauts on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight floated out of the International Space Station yesterday and then closed the hatch behind them, after one final round of warm wishes and embraces.All that remained was space shuttle...

Czech Republic (AP):Spanish vegetables suspected of contamination with a potentially deadly bacteria are being recalled from stores in Austria and the Czech Republic to prevent the spread of a deadly outbreak, officials said yesterday....

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP): Ratko Mladic - charged with genocide by a United Nations war crimes court - claims he did not order the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica when it fell during the 1992-1995 war...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has warned the United States to stop raids following the killing of 14 civilians in the south-west region of the country in a suspected NATO air strike.

French investigators say the Air France jet which crashed into the Atlantic en route from Rio in 2009 stalled and fell in three and a half minutes.

NEW YORK (AP):Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn is now living in a posh, four-bedroom brick town house in an upscale Manhattan neighbourhood where he will remain under house arrest as he awaits trial on charges ...

JOPLIN, Mo (AP): AUTHORITIES IN this southwest Missouri city hammered by a tornado that killed at least 122 people believe that many, if not most, of those considered "unaccounted for" survived the storm safely....

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP):Police in Honduras say gunmen opened fire on the manager of a daily newspaper Monday night as he was driving home in the Central American country's capital.Police say 70-year-old Manuel Acosta was shot six times and his car...

SAO PAULO (AP): A proposal to help farmers and ranchers in Brazil's vast Amazon rainforest is alarming environmental groups, who say it will speed destruction of the world's biggest natural defence against global warming....

SALT LAKE CITY (AP): A SALT Lake City woman has been charged with offering her 13-year-old daughter's virginity to a man for $10,000.The 32-year-old woman was charged Monday in Utah's 3rd District Court with two first-degree felony counts of aggravated...