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CAIRO (AP) -- An International Monetary Fund team was due to leave Cairo Wednesday without securing an agreement over a $3.2 billion loan to help boost the nation's battered economy....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- In a tense standoff, French riot police demanded the surrender Wednesday of a gunman who reportedly boasted of shooting seven victims in an al-Qaida-linked terror spree aimed at "bringing France to its knees."...

Mexico's Supreme Court refuses to allow the immediate release of Florence Cassez, a Frenchwoman jailed for 60 years for kidnapping.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback - this time in Louisiana....

NEWRY, Maine (AP) -- Skiers stripped down to shorts and bikini tops to keep cool Wednesday as they got in a few final sun-drenched, slushy runs, bidding what could be an early goodbye to a season that has disappointed all around....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Yemeni Interior Ministry official says tribesmen have kidnapped three Filipino sailors to press for release of a prisoner....

ARBUTUS, Md. (AP) -- Democrats and Republicans alike are criticizing Mitt Romney after a top adviser likened him to an Etch A Sketch....

A company appointed to provide interpreters for courts is accused of stealing the details of independent linguists to bulk up its database, BBC London has learned.

CAIRO (AP) -- The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful political group, said Wednesday it is considering running its own candidate in upcoming presidential elections, dropping its previous decision to avoid direct participation in the race....

A boy of 16 is charged with the manslaughter of a consultant surgeon who was injured outside his Cheshire home and died in hospital six days later.

The head of an action group looking at reducing waiting times at emergency departments across NI says the current system is "intolerable".

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Authorities said Wednesday they believe a body found outside Williston, N.D., is that of a missing Sidney, Mont., high school math teacher who disappeared Jan. 7 during a morning run....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Allergy season has come early and hit with a wheezing vengeance in parts of the South and Midwest this year, thanks largely to an unusually warm winter. Abundant pollen is causing watery eyes, sniffles and sneezing....

DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) -- The store signs of this Old West village are drawn with a typeface reminiscent of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" posters. The streets are paved with bricks that evoke the dusty 1800s....

It's spring, and "Occupy Wall Street" is back.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Picking 12 people to decide Jerry Sandusky's fate in the child-molestation case that brought down coach Joe Paterno and scandalized Penn State could prove a monumental task in a county where practically everyone went to the university, works there, knows someone there or is a fan of the football team....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that property owners have a right to prompt review by a judge of an important tool used by the Environmental Protection Agency to address water pollution.

The court sided with an Idaho couple who object to an EPA order that blocked ...

PARIS (AP) -- Just a few weeks ago, Mohamed Merah partied at a nightclub, and an acquaintance noticed nothing out of the ordinary. Another friend said the former car body shop worker liked to talk about "cars, bikes, girls and sports."...

PARIS (AP) -- Just a few weeks ago, Mohamed Merah partied at a nightclub, and an acquaintance noticed nothing out of the ordinary. Another friend said the former car body shop worker liked to talk about "cars, bikes, girls and sports."...

BEIRUT (AP) -- The gunmen in eastern Syria, wielding grenade launchers and assault rifles, announced on the Internet they were forming the "God is Great" Brigade and joining the country's rebellion. They swore allegiance to the Free Syrian Army and vowed to topple President Bashar Assad....