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MUMBAI, India (AP) -- A southern Indian state is actively investigating 76 criminal cases - some that had been closed by police - against employees of Indian lenders accused of driving overindebted borrowers to suicide, officials said Thursday....

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BERLIN (AP) -- An earless baby bunny that was a rising star on Germany's celebrity animal scene had his 15 minutes of fame brought to an abrupt end when he was accidentally stepped on by a television cameraman....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- In a world overwhelmed by electronic gadgets that have changed the way we read, write and learn, the Jewish and Islamic arts of calligraphy have preserved their methods for generations....

DHARMSALA, India (AP) -- Lobsang Sangay is the prime minister of a country that doesn't exist. His government fills a moldy cluster of yellow brick buildings clinging to an Indian hillside. His budget depends on donor countries and wealthy supporters....

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's top prosecutor on Thursday charged 75 people in connection with a deadly soccer riot last month in the Mediterranean city of Port Said in which authorities said fans were thrown to their death off the stadium walls and others killed by explosives as they tried to flee....

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's top prosecutor on Thursday charged 75 people in connection with a deadly soccer riot last month in the Mediterranean city of Port Said in which authorities said fans were thrown to their death off the stadium walls and others killed by explosives as they tried to flee....

MILAN (AP) -- Italian police arrested a Moroccan man early Thursday on suspicion of plotting an attack against a Milan synagogue, while authorities in Britain detained a woman possibly linked to the alleged plot....

LONDON (AP) -- Two men have been jailed for posing as Good Samaritans and then stealing from an injured Malaysian student during the London riots....

LONDON (AP) -- Mischievous musical "Matilda" dominated British theater's Olivier Awards on Sunday, winning seven prizes including a joint best-actress trophy for the four children who play the title role....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A Swiss couple held captive for nearly a year by the Taliban in Pakistan turned up at an army post close to the Afghan border on Thursday, claiming to have escaped from their captors, the Pakistani army said. They were swiftly flown to safety by the military....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Bomb attacks in Nigeria, Kenya and Somalia rose in 2011 as al-Qaida-affiliated terror groups used more sophisticated devices to kill more people with each explosion, the Pentagon's anti-IED unit said....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- It was a stunning attack by al-Qaida in a country that is one of the world's hottest fronts against the terror group. Militants rampaged through an army camp in southern Yemen before dawn, catching soldiers asleep and killing more than 180. Amid the turmoil, the defense minister ordered helicopters to evacuate the wounded....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- It was a stunning attack by al-Qaida in a country that is one of the world's hottest fronts against the terror group. Militants rampaged through an army camp in southern Yemen before dawn, catching soldiers asleep and killing more than 180. Amid the turmoil, the defense minister ordered helicopters to evacuate the wounded....

DHARMSALA, India (AP) -- Lobsang Sangay is the prime minister of a country that doesn't exist. His government fills a moldy cluster of yellow brick buildings clinging to an Indian hillside. His budget depends on donor countries and wealthy supporters....

BEIJING (AP) -- China's Communist Party sidelined a powerful, charismatic politician Thursday following a messy scandal that saw a trusted aide flee to a U.S. consulate and that threatened to cast a shadow over a looming leadership transition....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- All but lost amid the heated talk about a possible Israeli attack on Iran's suspect nuclear program are the thousands of Jews who live in the Islamic Republic and could be caught in the middle....

LONDON (AP) -- Thousands of emails purported to be from the private accounts of Bashar Assad and his wife show the Syrian president took advice from Iran on how to handle the uprising against his rule, joked about his promises of reform and bypassed U.S. sanctions to shop on iTunes, the Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Hundreds of anti-smoking advocates on Thursday picketed a large international tobacco fair in the Philippines, a country that has drawn more attention from the industry as Western nations pile on restrictions and taxes....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A Swiss couple held captive by the Taliban in Pakistan since July turned up at an army post close to the Afghan border and was flown to safety on Thursday by the Pakistani military, security officials said....