Associated Press     2/10/2012 12:32 AM   

BRUSSELS (AP) SEmD The European Union's economic affairs commissioner says the eurozone is seriously considering forcing Greece to set up a separate fiscal account that would be dedicated to repay its debts as part of a new bailout. Such an account ...

By HAMZA HENDAWI   Associated Press   2/10/2012 12:31 AM   

CAIRO -- Egypt's ruling generals have a new enemy: the legions of angry soccer fans who have injected fervor into recent protests demanding the military step down and battled police for days in the streets of Cairo. Known as Ultras and long viewed ...

By DANIEL WOOLLS   Associated Press   2/10/2012 12:31 AM   

MADRID (AP) SEmD The superstar Spanish judge who won global fame for aggressively taking on international human rights cases was convicted Thursday of overstepping his jurisdiction in a domestic corruption probe and barred from the bench for 11 years ...

By GABRIEL ALCOCER   Associated Press   2/9/2012 10:44 AM   

CANCUN, Mexico -- A reality televison producer arrived in Mexico escorted by nearly a dozen agents on Thursday after being extradited from the United States so he can face trial in his wife's killing. Former "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redm ...

By FRANCES D'EMILIO     2/9/2012 12:31 AM   

ROME -- A U.S. lawyer for compensation-seeking survivors of the Costa Concordia capsizing said Wednesday he will push for changes in maritime laws and technology to make the cruise ship industry safer. John Arthur Eaves Jr. said that in about two w ...

Associated Press     2/9/2012 12:31 AM   

HELSINKI (AP) -- Nokia Corp. plans to stop assembling cell phones in Europe by year-end as it shifts production to Asia and will cut another 4,000 jobs, its latest attempts to cushion itself from stiff competition in the smartphone sector. The Finn ...

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN   Associated Press   2/8/2012 11:13 AM   

BEIJING -- The former top cop of a major Chinese city has dropped from sight amid unconfirmed reports he is seeking U.S. asylum following a quarrel with one of China's most powerful local politicians. Wang Lijun, a crusading lawman who made his nam ...

By ERIC TALMADGE   Associated Press   2/8/2012 11:13 AM   

TOKYO -- Japan and the United States agreed Wednesday to proceed with plans to transfer thousands of U.S. troops out of the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, leaving behind the stalled discussion about closing a major U.S. Marine base there. The ...

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV   Associated Press   2/8/2012 10:45 AM   

MOSCOW -- After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years -- a lake that may hold life from the distant past and clue ...

By VESELIN TOSHKOV   Associated Press   2/8/2012 12:31 AM   

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Swollen rivers in Bulgaria and Greece burst their banks Tuesday, leaving dozens of homes underwater, as Bulgarian officials declared a day of mourning for eight people confirmed killed after a dam collapse nearly washed away their ...

By NICOLE WINFIELD   Associated Press   2/7/2012 9:01 PM   

ROME (AP) -- Priests who rape and molest children lie when confronted with an accusation but victims usually tell the truth, psychologists told Catholic bishops at a symposium Tuesday, advising them to listen first to the victims. The message came ...

By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY   Associated Press   2/7/2012 9:00 PM   

BEIRUT -- Days after blocking a United States-backed peace plan at the United Nations, senior Russian officials pushed for reforms Tuesday during an emergency meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, promoting a settlement to end the uprising with ...

By BASSEM MROUE   Associated Press   2/7/2012 9:00 PM   

BEIRUT (AP) -- Iran will not ask Lebanon's Hezbollah to retaliate if Israel attacks Iran's nuclear facilities, the leader of the militant group said Tuesday. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah told thousands of supporters by video link that in case of such an ...

Associated Press   Associated Press   2/7/2012 9:00 PM   

LONDON -- Florence Green never saw the front line. Her war was spent serving food, not dodging bullets. But Green, who has died aged 110, was the last known surviving veteran of World War I. She was serving with the Women's Royal Air Force as a wai ...

  Associated Press   2/7/2012 11:47 AM   

LAGOS, Nigeria -- An international watchdog says cleaning up toxic lead and securing gold mines in an impoverished northern Nigerian state will cost an estimated $4 million. A Human Rights Watch researcher told journalists in Lagos Tuesday that at ...

  Associated Press   2/7/2012 11:32 AM   

LONDON -- Florence Green, the world's last known veteran of World War I, has died at the age of 110, the care home where she lived said Tuesday. Briar House Care Home in King's Lynn, England, said Green died Saturday, two weeks before her 111th bir ...

By GREGORY KATZ   Associated Press   2/7/2012 11:29 AM   

LONDON -- Some of the world's biggest pop stars will perform in front of Buckingham Palace on June 4 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, palace officials said Tuesday. The lineup will include former Beatle Paul McCartney, singers Elt ...

By NASSER KARIMI   Associated Press   2/7/2012 11:16 AM   

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran on Tuesday dismissed the new U.S. sanctions, saying they are part of a "psychological war" meant to sow discontent among Iranians and insisting the measures would not halt the country's nuclear program. Washington ordered the n ...

By BARBARA SURK   Associated Press   2/7/2012 12:33 AM   

BAGHDAD -- An al-Qaida front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the two deadliest attacks on Shiites since the U.S. military completed its withdrawal last month, underlining an escalating sectarian security and political crisis that threate ...

Associated Press     2/7/2012 12:31 AM   

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime massacre told a court Monday that he deserves a medal of honor for the bloodshed and demanded to be set free. Anders Behring Breivik smirke ...