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BERLIN (AP) -- Germany defended its pro-austerity stance on Tuesday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel and two ministers pressing for Europe to stick with a policy of fiscal discipline in spite of the latest bout of political uncertainty....

MIAMI (AP) -- George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin, surrendered to police Sunday and was booked into a central Florida jail two days after his bond was revoked....

SANFORD, Fla. — While George Zimmerman is free on bail, the police chief criticized for not charging him after Trayvon Martin's slaying remains under scrutiny, as city commissioners want to wait for the results of a federal investigation to decide if they will accept Chief Bill Lee's resignation.

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The European Commission warns Argentina that its nationalisation of the oil firm YPF will have a long-term impact and may put off investors.

Two men are held in the US state of Utah after booby traps, including a spiked boulder rigged to swing at head height, were set on a hiking trail.

DETROIT (AP) — Vance Terrell offered encouraging words to his pregnant sister during visits to a western Michigan hospital. It didn't matter that she couldn't see or hear him and would never hold her twin sons.

Christine Bolden, 26, was already brain dead from aneurysms, but doctors kept her on ...

PARIS (AP) -- European laws on what girls and women wear on their heads are encouraging discrimination against Muslims and against a religion that has been part of Europe's fabric for centuries, Amnesty International says in a new report....

Police questioning a man over the murder of a two-year-old boy say the child died from abdominal injuries.

Jennifer Lawless and Kathleen Dolan say women are treated like also-rans on lists of potential vice-presidential candidates, and woefully underrepresented in electoral politics.

Tamar Jacoby says SB 1070 should fall, but if the Supreme Court lets it stand, it should also free states to experiment with policies that combine enforcement with practial approaches

BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's finance minister says he's confident a German-backed pact enforcing more fiscal discipline among European governments will be ratified despite new political uncertainty....

A woman who died while competing in the London Marathon is described as "incredible and inspirational" by her family, as donations top £400,000.

Home Secretary Theresa May says she was given "unambiguous" legal advice about the deadline for an appeal over the deportation of Abu Qatada.

Witnesses in a Norway court have been describing the moments after a bomb went off outside the government headquarters in Oslo last July - killing eight people.

HOUSTON (AP) -- A Houston woman has given birth to sextuplets....

Specks of unexplained DNA were found on the holdall containing the curled-up body of MI6 spy Gareth Williams, an inquest into his death hears.

Two men are found guilty of money-laundering charges following a £2.3m fraud against the Olympic Delivery Authority, the Crown Prosecution Service confirms.

Ugandan authorities suspend a police officer accused of the alleged sexual assault of Ingrid Turinawe, the women's league leader of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change.

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has gone on hunger strike after prison guards allegedly beat her, her lawyer said Tuesday....

A June preview of Windows 8 will be the closest yet to the final version.