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Japan ends its whaling season after catching less than a third of its annual target, blaming activists' sabotage and the weather.

Should Greece default have happened sooner?

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Gregory Brant found himself barricaded in a first-floor waiting room at a University of Pittsburgh psychiatric clinic, hoping he wouldn't be shot. For 15 minutes, it was fear and pandemonium....

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Polish health authorities have ordered the withdrawal from the market of more than 200,000 kilograms (440,000 pounds) of food suspected of containing industrial salt, the latest development in a scandal raising fears about food safety....

Lord Hanningfield, the peer jailed over his expenses, will return to Parliament in April.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's private creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, paving the way for an enormous second bailout for the country to keep Europe's economy from being dragged further into chaos....

I Led With the Cross 5-6-10

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A solar storm shook the Earth's magnetic field early Friday, but scientists said they had no reports of any problems with electrical systems....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A solar storm shook the Earth's magnetic field early Friday, but scientists said they had no reports of any problems with electrical systems....

Jimmy Ellis, who belted out the dance anthem "Disco Inferno" in the 1970s for The Trammps, died Thursday in South Carolina, the funeral home handling arrangements said.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton meets up with BBC F1 presenter Jake Humphrey at the team's HQ to answer your questions.

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

In the age of the Internet, when everybody wants to get his two cents into the debate and anybody can invent his own facts and rant in a blog or sometimes even a newspaper column, endorsements don't mean much. They particularly don't mean much coming from a congressman.

Endorsements ...

Mario Balotelli says fans who boo Carlos Tevez on his return to Manchester City could hurt the rest of the players.

Owen Farrell retains his place at fly-half as England name an unchanged XV for Sunday's Six Nations match against France.

The Israeli army says it is investigating the killing of a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank on Thursday.

Japan is preparing to mark the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji....

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney looked past his GOP opponents and focused squarely on President Barack Obama Friday, calling the president's new campaign film a misleading "infomercial" that ignores a slew of alleged administration failures.

A new £37m lifting bridge in Dorset is set to be officially celebrated, but will remain closed to traffic and pedestrians due to small glitches, the council says.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The recently retired head of the Mossad intelligence agency has said Israel must consider alternatives to a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, but another expert said Friday an Israeli attack could come within months....