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ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A Greek retiree shot himself dead in the busiest public square in Athens during morning rush hour Wednesday, leaving a note police said linked his suicide with the country's acute financial woes....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A Greek retiree shot himself dead in the busiest public square in Athens during morning rush hour Wednesday, leaving a note police said linked his suicide with the country's acute financial woes....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The discovery of a giant meat-eating dinosaur sporting a downy coat has some scientists reimagining the look of Tyrannosaurus rex....

BERLIN (AP) -- German Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass labeled Israel a threat to "already fragile world peace" in a poem published Wednesday that drew sharp rebukes at home and from Israel....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A gunman in a car assassinated a former high-ranking Taliban official working to end the decade-long war in Afghanistan, dealing a powerful blow Sunday to the fragile, U.S.-backed effort to bring peace to the country....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Authorities say a bomb has exploded at a market in northern Afghanistan, killing nine people, including a local official....

LONDON (AP) -- Fake versions of Britain's young royals have prompted a real-life media scrum when they were unveiled at Madame Tussauds....

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) -- A Moroccan court denied bail on Wednesday to a rapper charged with attacking the image of the security services in a song about police corruption....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's track and field authority suspended all athletic operations Wednesday due to severe spending cuts - a major embarrassment for the nation that hosted the Summer Olympics only eight years ago....

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- An explosion Wednesday at a ceremony at Somalia's national theater killed at least 10 people including two top sports officials in an attack by an Islamist group on a site that symbolized the city's attempt to rise from two decades of war....

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) -- One of Pakistan's most notorious extremists taunted the United States during a defiant news conference close to the country's military headquarters Wednesday, a day after the U.S. slapped a $10 million bounty on him....

SAALFELD, Germany (AP) -- You thought Easter eggs don't grow on trees? Check out Volker Kraft's garden in eastern Germany, and think again....

SAALFELD, Germany (AP) -- You thought Easter eggs don't grow on trees? Check out Volker Kraft's garden in eastern Germany, and think again....

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- It was not the typical wish of a beauty queen....

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- It was not the typical wish of a beauty queen....

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Nguyen Huong Giang loves to party but loathes hangovers, so she ends her whiskey benders by tossing back shots of rhino horn ground with water on a special ceramic plate....

BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand's film censors have banned an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," saying it could inflame political passions in the country where it is taboo to criticize the monarchy....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A Greek retiree shot himself dead in the busiest public square in Athens during morning rush hour Wednesday, leaving a note police said linked his suicide with the country's acute financial woes....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian troops intensified shelling of rebel-held neighborhoods in Homs Sunday according to activists who said humanitarian conditions in the city are growing dire and pressed for evacuation of 1,000 endangered families and dozens of wounded who cannot get adequate medical care....

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Nguyen Huong Giang loves to party but loathes hangovers, so she ends her whiskey benders by tossing back shots of rhino horn ground with water on a special ceramic plate....