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ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek coalition leaders are studying a draft deal on further austerity measures demanded to secure a new bailout that will determine whether the country avoids a looming bankruptcy next month....

Aircraft maker Airbus has been ordered to check the wings of all A380 superjumbo planes currently in service.

Police and coastguards try to trace the owners of a car found abandoned in waters off the coast of Dumfries and Galloway.

Talks to end a police strike in the Brazilian state of Bahia break down, as troops blockade the state assembly occupied by striking officers.

Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive, Stephen Hester, tells the BBC he briefly considered resigning during the uproar over his bonus.

A Liberal Democrat AM accuses the Welsh government of negligence over the handling of a race relations body at the centre of claims of wrongdoing.

Israel's main trade union federation launches a national strike intended to shut down government offices, banks, airports, ports and rail services.

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The Pakistani army was meeting with NATO and Afghan forces on Wednesday in an effort to improve coordination along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a sign of thawing relations after American airstrikes accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last year....

Syrian opposition groups say the city of Homs has come under the heaviest shelling in days, despite the president's pledge to engage in dialogue.

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's foreign minister says that Syrian President Bashar Assad wants his vice president to hold talks with the opposition forces....

Greek PM Lucas Papademos is set to meet coalition parties in an attempt to seal an austerity deal to secure a new EU/IMF bailout.

LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- Residents in India's largest state began voting Wednesday in a monthlong local election with repercussions for the whole nation....

A new squad of 1,000 officers dedicated to tackling gang-related crime in London is being launched by the Metropolitan Police.

NEW DELHI (AP) -- In recent weeks, India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier - modernizing its military to face a rising China....

CAIRO (AP) -- Younes al-Yousef rarely goes outside in Cairo, fearful that even here someone will recognize him and word will get back to Damascus. He stays in a simple, rented apartment with his wife and children, smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee and watching TV for the latest from the homeland he fled, Syria....

A police woman's lost mobile phone containing hundreds of photographs and operational details falls into the hands of dissident republicans.

Coroners rule Don Cornelius's death was suicide, nearly a week after the Soul Train creator was found with a gun shot to his head.

Three paintings from Elizabeth Taylor's personal art collection are sold for almost £14 million at an auction in London.

BEIJING (AP) -- A prominent Chinese official who might have been the country's most famous policeman has dropped from sight amid unconfirmed reports of a political scandal and a bid for U.S. asylum....

MALE, Maldives (AP) -- The new president of the Maldives called Wednesday for the formation of a national unity government in his Indian Ocean nation even as police and soldiers kept watch over his predecessor at an undisclosed location....