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24 hours of news photos 28 May 2012

MADRID (AP) -- Concern over troubled Spanish lender Bankia and the government's ability to come up with the (EURO)19 billion ($23.8 billion) bailout the bank needs to bolster its defenses sent the nationalized lender's stock price plummeting and Spain's borrowing costs soaring Monday....

MADRID (AP) -- Concern over troubled Spanish lender Bankia and the government's ability to come up with the (EURO)19 billion ($23.8 billion) bailout the bank needs to bolster its defenses sent the nationalized lender's stock price plummeting and Spain's borrowing costs soaring Monday....

Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is released on bail, after he was arrested on 5 May returning from Beirut.

European governments are backsliding on commitments to make fishing sustainable, campaigners warn, with commitments weakening on banning discards and achieving healthy stocks.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said....

The Forth Bridge comes a step closer to being designated as a world heritage site.

Zen Gardner | This is about as creepy as it gets. But it’s right in front of our eyes.

MOSCOW (AP) -- Both sides in the Syria conflict "had a hand" in the deaths of more than 100 civilians in Houla, Russia's foreign minister said Monday, calling for a full investigation....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Both sides in the Syria conflict "had a hand" in the deaths of more than 100 civilians in Houla, Russia's foreign minister said Monday, calling for a full investigation....

More than 240 jobs have been saved at troubled Mathiesons Foods after several of its shops are sold to a rival baker.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Election officials from the West Bank arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday to prepare the way for a long-overdue vote, taking a key step toward repairing a five-year rift between Palestinians....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Election officials from the West Bank arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday to prepare the way for a long-overdue vote, taking a key step toward repairing a five-year rift between Palestinians....

Paul Joseph Watson | News agency uses picture of dead Iraqi children to depict alleged government atrocity.

Social networking giant Facebook is preparing to launch its own smartphone by next year, reports say.

Personal photos from the Falklands conflict

For as Gen. Logan proclaimed, "Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic."

Comedian Harry Hill is to act as a tour guide at a new art exhibition by the surreal cartoonist David Shrigley in Manchester later this year.

NAMPHO, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea is reporting a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages, but help is unlikely to come from the United States and South Korea following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch....