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Serena Williams is in top form to beat the world number one Victoria Azarenka 6-1 6-3 and win the Madrid Open.

Germany's Wolfgang Schaeuble indicates interest in becoming chairman of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Critical last-ditch talks to form a coalition government in crisis-struck Greece floundered once more Sunday, leading the country one step closer to new elections, although the socialist party leader said he retained `existing but limited' optimism for a deal....

GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) — Days of searching for two young girls and the kidnapper who killed their mother and sister led to the kind of terrain that favors the hunted — high hardwoods and deep ravines near a red-brick church perched on a hill.

Specially trained officers had come up ...

GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) — Days of searching for two young girls and the kidnapper who killed their mother and sister led to the kind of terrain that favors the hunted — high hardwoods and deep ravines near a red-brick church perched on a hill.

Specially trained officers had come up ...

DUBLIN (AP) -- When voters in Greece and France got the chance, they dealt a resounding "No!" to parties backing austerity measures. The Irish could be next to give the European Union's austerity plans a black eye....

DUBLIN (AP) -- When voters in Greece and France got the chance, they dealt a resounding "No!" to parties backing austerity measures. The Irish could be next to give the European Union's austerity plans a black eye....

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials and other law enforcement personnel searched a rugged mountain area Saturday for an FBI agent who had not been seen for more than 24 hours and was said to be despondent and possibly suicidal.

Los Angeles-based Special Agent Stephen Ivens ...

Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, would-be Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has worked diligently to cast himself as a conservative gadfly, willing to buck GOP leaders and even a Republican president....

A prototype Leica camera from 1923 sets an auction record by selling for 2.16m euros in Vienna.

Defendant was convicted of rape and murder based on a CODIS hit. His previous DNA draw was the result of his Tennessee arrest on a Mississippi fugitive warrant for a violent offense there. While the Mississippi charge had been dropped, Tennessee was never told. He was actually a felon, so no harm, no foul. State v. Scott, 2012 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 302 (May 10, 2012).*

The state concedes that the traffic stop that led to the smell of marijuana wasn’t legal after all. Riggle v. State, 2012 Ind. App. LEXIS 222 (May 10, 2012).*

The trial court apparently discounted the officer’s testimony that defendant was following a tractor-trailer too close when the officer stopped him for a lack of proof of the traffic offense. When defendant refused to consent to a search, the officer got out a drug dog. The court of criminal appeals affirmed because the evidence does not preponderate against the finding. State v. Baldwin, 2012 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 294 (May 10, 2012).*

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- The wife of a jailed Bahraini activist on hunger strike for more than three months says his condition appears better, but he is still only taking water and juice in his protest against government crackdowns in the Gulf kingdom....

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- The wife of a jailed Bahraini activist on hunger strike for more than three months says his condition appears better, but he is still only taking water and juice in his protest against government crackdowns in the Gulf kingdom....

The connection between cars and self-image is as American as the anti-Prius, the F-150 pickup truck.

New American | Word out of Idaho is that the Ron Paul bloc in the Gem State’s GOP, perhaps encouraged by recent events at the Nevada and Maine state Republican conventions, plans to attempt a similar strategy.

Politico | "There is a sickness out there that needs more than political leadership. It needs spiritual leadership".

Saman Mohammadi | There is a theory that London will be rocked with a false flag operation this summer during the 2012 Olympics.

NY Times | The state budget shortfall in California has increased dramatically in the last six months.

NY Times | Police officers stopped people on New York City’s streets more than 200,000 times during the first three months of 2012.

The chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission says race cannot be ignored in the Rochdale grooming case.