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The European Commission unveils proposals to end wasteful discarding of fish, amid differing ideas about what should replace it.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Officials say two car bombs in the Iraqi city of Hillah have killed 15 people, adding to the death toll from coordinated attacks on Shiite pilgrims that killed at least 20 across Baghdad....

BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

The leader of an under-fire council accused of failing to safeguard young people is to meet ministers after complaints some children were locked in padded "time out rooms".

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey says that Syrian conflict could spill over its borders as the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey increased to more than 29,000....

Alec Stewart says Ian Bell is the perfect choice to replace Kevin Pietersen at the top of the order in England's one-day side

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- NATO's chief hopes to soon reopen military supply routes through Pakistan despite new transport agreements with other Afghanistan neighbors providing alternatives....

The Falkland Islands will hold a referendum on its "political status" in a bid to end the dispute with Argentina over the archipelago's sovereignty.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota voters overwhelmingly decided Tuesday to let the state's flagship university dump a controversial Fighting Sioux nickname that sparked threats of NCAA sanctions, ending - at least temporarily - a dispute simmering for decades that divided sports fans, alumni and even tribes....

Hundreds of firefighters are tackling a wildfire in the US state of Colorado, which has left at least one person dead.

The prisoner ombudsman says she is worried inmates' use of illegal drugs is accepted, after a report finds a man who died in his cell had taken a "cocktail" of drugs.

Authorities searched Tuesday for a man they say sexually assaulted and stabbed a lone hiker at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee.

The run on Northern Rock could have been prevented, the outgoing chief executive of the Financial Services Authority tells the BBC.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration's increasing use of unmanned drone strikes to kill terror suspects is widely opposed around the world, according to a Pew Research Center survey on the U.S. image abroad....

Papers unsure about Olympics opening ceremony

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