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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere....

MADRID (AP) -- Europe is to offer Spain a bailout package of up to (EURO)100 billion ($125 billion) to help rescue the country's banks and keep the 17-country eurozone from breaking apart....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For President Barack Obama's relationship with France, it's out with "Sarkozy the American" and in with Francois Hollande the Socialist....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For President Barack Obama's relationship with France, it's out with "Sarkozy the American" and in with Francois Hollande the Socialist....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For President Barack Obama's relationship with France, it's out with "Sarkozy the American" and in with Francois Hollande the Socialist....

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peruvians traumatized by years of guerrilla violence cheered in 1997 when government troops raided the Japanese ambassador's residence to rescue hostages held for 126 days by leftist rebels....

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peruvians traumatized by years of guerrilla violence cheered in 1997 when government troops raided the Japanese ambassador's residence to rescue hostages held for 126 days by leftist rebels....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- About 70 Christian youths in the Philippines have chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally calling for the singer's shows in Manila next week to be canceled....

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A crowded overnight bus plunged off a bridge into a river in central Vietnam, killing 34 passengers and injuring 21 others in one of the country's deadliest road accidents....

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has leveraged growing economic ties with China to reduce tensions to their lowest level since the two sides split in 1949. China's incessant effort to draw the democratic island closer politically has been on the back burner, and as Ma's second term begins Sunday the question is whether he can keep it there....

BEIJING (AP) -- The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight....

BEIJING (AP) -- The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight....

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A crowded bus plunged into a river bank in central Vietnam, killing 34 people and injuring 21 others in one of the country's deadliest road accidents....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- About 70 Christian youths in the Philippines have chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally calling for the singer's shows in Manila next week to be canceled....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand police filed charges Friday against a 20-year-old Boston University student who drove a minivan in a crash that killed three of his college classmates last week....

CAIRO (AP) -- The Algerian singer Warda, whose sultry voice and range helped make her one of the giants of Arab song, has died. She was 72....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The Olympic torch was passed to London - witnessed, appropriately, by hundreds of Greeks huddled under umbrellas....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The U.S. has plans in place to attack Iran if necessary to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, Washington's envoy to Israel said, days ahead of a crucial round of nuclear talks with Tehran....