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MADRID (AP) -- Concern over troubled Spanish lender Bankia and the government's ability to come up with the (EURO)19 billion ($23.8 billion) bailout the bank needs to bolster its defenses sent the nationalized lender's stock price plummeting and Spain's borrowing costs soaring Monday....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Both sides in the Syria conflict "had a hand" in the deaths of more than 100 civilians in Houla, Russia's foreign minister said Monday, calling for a full investigation....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Both sides in the Syria conflict "had a hand" in the deaths of more than 100 civilians in Houla, Russia's foreign minister said Monday, calling for a full investigation....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Election officials from the West Bank arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday to prepare the way for a long-overdue vote, taking a key step toward repairing a five-year rift between Palestinians....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Election officials from the West Bank arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday to prepare the way for a long-overdue vote, taking a key step toward repairing a five-year rift between Palestinians....

NAMPHO, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea is reporting a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages, but help is unlikely to come from the United States and South Korea following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch....

NAMPHO, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea is reporting a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages, but help is unlikely to come from the United States and South Korea following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch....

JISH, Israel (AP) -- Two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East....

JISH, Israel (AP) -- Two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Marine Sgt. William Stacey was killed earlier this year by a homemade bomb in southern Afghanistan, a tragedy for which he prepared by writing a letter to his family explaining why he was fighting that was to be read in the event of his death....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Marine Sgt. William Stacey was killed earlier this year by a homemade bomb in southern Afghanistan, a tragedy for which he prepared by writing a letter to his family explaining why he was fighting that was to be read in the event of his death....

FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Last year's crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings. He's living up to his family's proud, six-generation history of rice farming, and praying that this time his harvest will not have too much radiation to sell....

FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Last year's crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings. He's living up to his family's proud, six-generation history of rice farming, and praying that this time his harvest will not have too much radiation to sell....

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's ability to manage its debt without an international bailout was thrown into doubt Monday after investors pushed its borrowing rates up to the level at which Greece, Portugal and Ireland had sought help....

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Nepal sank into political turmoil Monday after lawmakers failed to agree on a new constitution, leaving the country with no legal government. The premier called new elections, but critics said he lacked the power to do so....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has observed Memorial Day by reading a letter written by an American soldier to his family before he died earlier this year....

BEIJING (AP) -- Every workday at 7:20 a.m., colleagues pick up Yao Lifa from his second-floor apartment and drive him to the elementary school where he taught for years....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry has rejected the country's alleged role in plotting to topple the regime in Bahrain....