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Delta grabs bigger share of key NY-London route
Delta Air Lines is grabbing a bigger share of the world's most important travel route: New York to London. The airline is paying $360 million for ...
Greece to announce bond buyback results Wednesday
Greece will reveal the results of a key debt buyback deal Wednesday, after an extended deadline for private investors to decide whether they will sell ...
Cayman Islands leader arrested in corruption case
The leader of the Cayman Islands' government was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of theft, abuse of office and breach of trust in the famed Caribbean ...
Spice Girls musical 'Viva Forever' opens in London
"Viva Forever"? Time will tell. Girl Power lit up London's West End on Tuesday at the premiere of the new Spice Girls musical — but audiences and ...
Ruby, key witness in Berlusconi trial, in Mexico
The Moroccan woman at the center of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's pay-for-sex trial has turned up in Mexico after missing a court date and becoming ...
Vatican: World not ending, despite Maya prediction
The Vatican's top astronomer has some assurances to offer: The world won't be ending in 10 days, despite predictions to the contrary. The Rev.
US defends $1.9B deal with British banking giant
American authorities on Tuesday cited "astonishing" dysfunction at the British bank HSBC and said that it had helped Mexican drug traffickers, Iran, ...
Pope's sensitive side revealed in children's book
A children's picture book about the goldfish pond at the pope's summer residence reveals a side of him few may know. Every day while Pope Benedict XVI ...
Cyprus court orders retrial regarding plane crash
Cyprus' Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for four former airline officials who had been acquitted of manslaughter and other charges for ...
US actress Parker hails EU as example for America
American actress Sarah Jessica Parker praised the EU on Tuesday for winning the Nobel Peace Prize for pacifying Europe and uniting its different ...
Sikh soldier wears turban on palace guard duty
Britain's Ministry of Defense says a Sikh soldier has become the first guardsman to parade outside Buckingham Palace while wearing his traditional ...
Winter brings more troubles for displaced Syrians
This tent camp sheltering Syrians uprooted by their country's brutal civil war has lost the race against winter: The ground under white tents is ...
UK regulator steps up compliance rules for HSBC
Britain's financial regulator says it is taking steps to force HSBC to improve its legal compliance after the bank agreed to pay $1.9 billon to settle ...
Belfast leaders decry petrol-bomb attack on police
Leaders from across Northern Ireland appealed Tuesday for a week of angry, illegal Protestant street protests to end after a gang surrounded a ...
British government to legalize same-sex marriage
The British government announced Tuesday that it will introduce a bill next year legalizing gay marriage — but banning the Church of England from ...
HSBC to pay $1.9B to settle money-laundering case
British bank HSBC has agreed to pay $1.9 billion to settle a New York based-probe in connection with the laundering of money from narcotics ...
Experts: Russia likely to stay course on Assad
Recent hopes that the Kremlin would end its support of Syrian strongman Bashar Assad melted quickly, and analysts say Moscow ultimately may change its ...
Messi edges Falcao at top of AP soccer rankings
Lionel Messi narrowly stayed on top of AP's Global Soccer Rankings this week despite breaking the record for goals in a calendar year. The Barcelona ...
Angry bank clients push way into Cyprus parliament
Cypriot police say a group of investors and savers protesting outside parliament shoved their way past security and entered the building.
UK authorities arrest 3 in LIBOR rate probe
British police arrested three people Tuesday as part of their investigation into the manipulation of a key benchmark interest rate — the first British ...
Man strips at Austrian art exhibition of nude men
An Austrian museum says a man took the concept of life imitating art to an extreme when he suddenly stripped at an exhibition of pictures and ...
Van Gogh dazzles at Netherlands' Kroeller-Mueller
With the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam closed for renovations until April, the world's second-largest collection of the tortured Dutch master's work ...
Italian premier defends austerity measures
Premier Mario Monti on Tuesday defended his government's austerity measures as necessary to restore confidence in Italy's financial future, and warned ...
China overtakes US in number of patent filings
GENEVA — The U.N. says the Chinese filed the most patent applications in the world last year, overtaking the U.S. for the first time. The U.N.'s World ...