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LONDON (AP):Britain's advertising watch-dog has ruled that a government campaign urging immigrants who entered the country illegally to go home used misleading arrest figures.The Home Office poster, displayed on vans driven throughout London...

President Barack Obama is having House Democrats to the White House as a showdown over the budget extends into its ninth day.

LAGOS, (AP):A pan-African magazine says Africa has many more billionaires than previously reported, 55 of them worth more than $143 billion including a Nigerian said to be the richest black woman in the world."Move over, Oprah!" Ventures Africa says...

AMSTERDAM (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday demanded that The Netherlands apologise for the arrest of a top Russian diplomat, a feud that comes as the two countries, which were supposed to be using this year to celebrate their historical...

It says it now expects global growth of 2.9 per cent this year, a cut of 0.3 per cent from July's estimate. In 2014 it expects global growth of 3.6 per cent, down 0.2 per cent.

ROMANIA, Bucharest (AP): Romanian prosecutors have charged the deputy prime minister and 74 local officials with falsifying voter data in a referendum that failed to unseat President Traian Basescu....

WASHINGTON (AP): A government shutdown is having far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others.

At least 50 people have been killed and scores more hurt in Egypt, in clashes between police and supporters of the deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

The suspected al-Qaida figure nabbed by United States special forces in a dramatic operation in the Libyan capital had been living freely in his homeland after his return there three years ago, his family said.Libya's government asked for an explanation...

International inspectors began the enormous task today of destroying Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it, a United Nations official said.

A federal law enforcement official says that Carey had been deteriorating mentally for months and believed the president was communicating with her.

SAN DIEGO (AP):Asylum requests from Mexico have surged in recent years.