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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A federal judge has denied a request to block discharge proceedings of a Camp Pendleton Marine who faces being kicked out of the military and loss of benefits for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook....

There has been international condemnation after North Korea launched a long range rocket this morning amid claims it was a cover for testing missile technology.

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad defended his government's crackdown on opponents Sunday, saying a doctor performing messy emergency surgery does not have blood on his hands if he is trying to save a patient....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The United States is drastically reducing the number of aid projects in Pakistan as part of reforms aimed at improving the distribution of billions of dollars in funding, the top U.S. aid official said Friday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An internal government memo released Friday shows officials of the General Services Administration were aware of a spending problem months before the scandal burst into public view this month....

Watch live BBC coverage of the men's World Triathlon in San Diego. (UK users only).

The UN Security Council deplores the launch by North Korea of a rocket and satellite which broke up shortly after take-off.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- An FBI spokesman says they're still looking for someone who shot and killed two Coast Guard members on an island off Alaska's mainland....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The University of California, San Diego, has agreed to overhaul practices for handling complaints of racial harassment after a series of campus incidents that targeted blacks two years ago....

British equestrian star Pippa Funnell misses the London Games after seeing two of her top rides suffer injuries.

A Christian group who had their advertisement pulled from London buses after it was described as anti-gay is looking at taking legal action.

The fuel tanker drivers' dispute could end within days if the Unite union accepts a proposed deal which it will discuss next week.

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's benchmark borrowing rate hit its highest level Tuesday since the country adopted the euro currency, after ratings agency Fitch downgraded 18 banks on Tuesday and investors continued to find more questions than answers in the country's decision to seek help for its ailing bank sector by tapping a (EURO)100 billion ($125 billion) eurozone bailout fund....

MADRID (AP) -- Spanish stocks sank and its borrowing costs rose Friday after the government released data showing the country's banks borrowed a record (EURO)316.3 billion ($415.9 billion) from the European Central Bank in March....

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's deputy prime minister is heading to Washington to discuss the country's economic crisis with the U.S. treasury secretary and the head of the IMF....

MADRID (AP) -- Spanish stocks sank and its borrowing costs rose Friday after the government released data showing the country's banks borrowed a record (EURO)316.3 billion ($415.9 billion) from the European Central Bank in March....

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's reaffirms its AAA credit rating for the UK, saying it believes the economy is "wealthy, open and diversified".

CAIRO (AP) -- Presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister under Hosni Mubarak's regime, has attacked his Islamist rival by saying he would terrorize Christians and lead Egypt to "the dark ages."...

CAIRO (AP) -- More than 10,000 Egyptians marched from mosques and protested in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday in a show of strength by Islamists, demanding the country's ruling generals bar Hosni Mubarak's former spy chief and other ousted regime officials from running in next month's presidential elections....

A mother from Bury who admitted trying to hide her dead baby in a garden is given a suspended jail sentence.