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Sudanese war planes crossed a disputed border region to conduct airstrikes in South Sudan on Monday, a witness said, escalating fighting that threatens to return the neighboring African countries to full-scale war.

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea promised Monday to reduce South Korea's conservative government "to ashes" in less than four minutes, in an unusually specific escalation of recent threats aimed at its southern rival....

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Robbie Savage bet a cabbie a new taxi if Newcastle reach next year's Champions' League.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- As jurors in the John Edwards campaign corruption trial get set for a fifth day of deliberations, legal experts caution it's still too early to read too much into their discussions....

LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- The European Union on Monday suspended its sanctions against Myanmar for a year following a wave of widely praised political reforms in the country, but will retain an embargo on arms sales, officials said....

A cadre of liberal groups has decided the scourge of the nation is a little-known conservative organization that provides model legislation to state legislators across the country.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir rules out talks with South Sudan, as he visits the oil-field town recently occupied by the South's troops.

Ofcom launches an investigation into email hacking by Sky News after the broadcaster admitted accessing the private accounts of "canoe man" John Darwin and his wife.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Schools in western Pennsylvania are closing in the face of an unusual late-April snow storm that's chugging through the Northeast, threatening to bring high winds and up to a foot of snow in some places....

A festival that will see Shakespeare's 37 plays performed in 37 languages, from Swahili to sign language, gets under way in London.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The Dutch government was close to collapse on Monday, with the prime minister widely expected to resign after top-level talks on an austerity package failed....

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte tenders his government's resignation to Queen Beatrix amid a row over European budget rules, paving the way for early polls.

The sister of an MI6 officer - whose body was found in a padlocked bag - tells the inquest into his death her brother only allowed "vetted" people into his home.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's election result has eased fears of imminent financial disaster for Europe, but the continent's leaders are still searching for a way to contain a debt crisis that threatens the global economy....

Nadine Dorries MP has said the PM and his chancellor are "two arrogant posh boys who show no remorse, no contrition and no passion to want to understand the lives of others."

BANGKOK (AP) -- World stocks skidded lower Monday after budget talks in the Netherlands collapsed over the weekend and a Socialist who wants to put France's austerity plans in reverse won the first round of the country's presidential election....

Bahraini court postpones final verdict in the case of a hunger striker and 20 other democracy activists convicted of plotting to overthrow the kingdom's rulers.

A search for one of the Disappeared - people abducted and murdered by republicans during the Troubles - is under way in Bragan, County Monaghan.

PARIS (AP) -- Francois Hollande charged back into campaign mode Monday with momentum on his side to capture France's presidency, after the Socialist won the most votes in the first round of voting that put him into a runnoff with conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy....