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DUBLIN (AP) -- Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced Sunday he has resigned from the Fianna Fail party rather than be expelled over an investigation into secret payments he received while in office, but vowed to clear his name....

PARIS (AP) -- Signs mounted Sunday that the brother of a radical Islamist gunman who killed schoolchildren and paratroopers in southern France may have helped prepare the attacks....

ISTANBUL (AP) -- A year of sanctions, diplomacy and harsh rhetoric failed to stop Syria's bloody crackdown and oust President Bashar Assad. With frustration running high, Turkey and other countries that have staked moral credibility on ending the violence are increasingly looking at intervention on Syrian soil, a strategy they have so far avoided for lack of international consensus and fears it could widen the conflict....

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Police fired tear gas at boisterous crowds outside a polling station in Senegal's capital Sunday as voters decided whether to give their 85-year-old president another term in office or instead back his one-time protege....

Pianist Jamie Cullum has taken a novel approach to revealing his Desert Island Discs - performing three of the tracks himself on the Radio 4 show.

Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan tells Conservatives the battle to keep the United Kingdom together will be "the biggest challenge of all".

On Monday the Supreme Court begins three days of oral arguments concerning possible constitutional infirmities in ObamaCare.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Warning North Korea from its doorstep, President Barack Obama said Pyongyang risks deepening its isolation in the international community if it proceeds with a planned long-range rocket launch....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Warning North Korea from its doorstep, President Barack Obama said Pyongyang risks deepening its isolation in the international community if it proceeds with a planned long-range rocket launch....

An independent Scotland could face the prospect of checks at its border with England, Home Secretary Theresa May warns.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea has moved a rocket to a northwestern site in preparation for a launch next month, South Korean officials said Sunday, as Pyongyang pushes ahead with a plan that Washington calls a cover for testing long-range missiles....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea has moved a rocket to a northwestern site in preparation for a launch next month, South Korean officials said Sunday, as Pyongyang pushes ahead with a plan that Washington calls a cover for testing long-range missiles....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea has moved a rocket to a northwestern site in preparation for a launch next month, South Korean officials said Sunday, as Pyongyang pushes ahead with a plan that Washington calls a cover for testing long-range missiles....

Thousands of people take part in Sport Relief runs of one, three or six miles on Sunday to raise money for the charity's projects in the UK and developing world.

HONG KONG (AP) -- Hong Kong's elite chose a former Cabinet chief as the southern Chinese financial hub's next leader on Sunday, heeding Beijing's wishes and public opinion following a tumultuous, bitter race that highlighted public discontent....

Nearly a quarter of people on Incapacity Benefit who have been reassessed are found capable of work.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday....

SEATTLE (AP) -- Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president demanded Sunday that global human rights groups investigate whether one of his bodyguards was tortured to death....

Syrian cartoonist on revolution, art - and taking a beating