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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S. official says a drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region has killed al-Qaida's second-in-command....

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The European Central Bank has a powerful weapon that just might push political leaders into solving the continent's financial crisis once and for all: withholding further help....

LONDON (AP) -- Pealing church bells, artillery salutes and crowds cheering "God save the queen!" greeted Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday, the last of four days of Diamond Jubilee celebrations honoring her 60 years on the throne....

MONTREAL (AP) -- Canadian police say video footage from the killing and dismembering of a Chinese student seems to show the suspect eating the body....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. has terminated funding for a $20 million project to develop a Pakistani version of "Sesame Street," the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday. The decision came as a Pakistani newspaper reported allegations of corruption by the local puppet theater working on the initiative....

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's prime minister appealed Tuesday for European leaders to push toward greater fiscal unity - a step that would allow its troubled banks to get direct financial help - while a top government official warned that the country's high borrowing costs meant it faced increasing trouble accessing credit markets....

CAIRO (AP) -- The health of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak deteriorated sharply on Tuesday, three days after a court sentenced him to life imprisonment in connection to the killing of protesters, a security official said....

CAIRO (AP) -- The health of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak deteriorated sharply on Tuesday, three days after a court sentenced him to life imprisonment in connection to killing of protesters, a security official said....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. has terminated funding for a $20 million project to develop a Pakistani version of "Sesame Street," the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday. The decision came as a Pakistani newspaper reported allegations of corruption by the local puppet theater working on the initiative....

LONDON (AP) -- Pealing church bells, artillery salutes and crowds cheering "God save the queen!" greeted Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday on the last of four days of Diamond Jubilee celebrations honoring her 60 years on the throne....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Anxious families and diplomats crowded into a Nigerian hospital's mortuary on Tuesday, trying to identify corpses from a plane crash that killed the 153 people aboard the airliner and an unknown number of others on the ground....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Anxious families and diplomats crowded into a Nigerian hospital's mortuary on Tuesday, trying to identify corpses from a plane crash that killed the 153 people aboard the airliner and an unknown number of others on the ground....

BEIJING (AP) -- China told foreign embassies Tuesday to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in the country, escalating its objections to a popular U.S. Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smoggy Beijing....

GENEVA (AP) -- President Bashar Assad's government has agreed to ease humanitarian access to four of the hardest-hit provinces in Syria, officials said Tuesday, even as the regime plunged into further international isolation by labeling a string of U.S. and European diplomats unwelcome....

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan has evidence that al-Qaida's second-in-command was in a house destroyed by a U.S. drone strike in the country's northwest tribal region, but it is unclear whether he was killed, intelligence officials said Tuesday....

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The pope's butler was formally questioned Tuesday in the investigation into the leaks of the pope's papers, a scandal that represents one of the gravest security breaches in recent Vatican history....

GAUHATI, India (AP) -- Large biting spiders have sparked panic in remote northeast India, but health authorities fear primitive treatment of the bites' painful swelling may be more dangerous than the spiders themselves....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Police on Tuesday detained at least two dozen people protesting outside the Russian parliament as it debated a controversial bill that would raise fines 150-fold for people taking part in unsanctioned rallies....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. has terminated funding for a $20 million project to develop a Pakistani version of Sesame Street, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday. The decision came as a Pakistani newspaper reported allegations of corruption by the local puppet theater working on the initiative....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. has terminated funding for a $20 million project to develop a Pakistani version of Sesame Street, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday. The decision came as a Pakistani newspaper reported allegations of corruption by the local puppet theater working on the initiative....