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Portuguese authorities say they are not going to reopen the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The United States has issued a fresh security warning to Americans in Pakistan....

NEW YORK (AP) -- They're young and old, doctors and churchgoers, gay and straight - and those are just the MEN who have devoured oh-so-naughty "Fifty Shades of Grey," an erotic trilogy that has earned millions of women fans in a matter of weeks....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- An Iranian-based Shiite Muslim cleric on Sunday published a religious edict that could undermine efforts to unseat the Iraqi prime minister and also signaled Iran's growing influence over Iraq's politics....

MOSCOW (AP) -- President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday defended his upcoming job swap with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as a move that will strengthen democracy, and predicted they will rule Russia together "for a long time."...

The trial of two grandparents accused of the manslaughter of their disabled granddaughter is told their grandson was once arrested on suspicion of murdering her.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Thousands of people who survived Sierra Leone's brutal civil war a decade ago celebrated Thursday after learning that Charles Taylor had been convicted for his role in the conflict that left behind countless amputees and traumatized former child soldiers....

Jeffrey Miron says Wal-mart should be punished if it broke the law, but the law against bribing officials overseas is a mistake.

Nearly 10 times as many £5 notes are being dispensed from cash machines than in the summer of 2010, the Bank of England says.

LONDON (AP) -- News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch said Thursday that he panicked when he closed the News of the World tabloid last year, one of a series of revealing exchanges made at an inquiry into British media ethics....

LONDON (AP) -- The rebound in European stock markets over the past couple of days ground to a halt Thursday following a mixed batch of corporate earnings and further evidence of a sharp slowdown in the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro....

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Police warn they will take action against people making threats to Scottish FA panel members who handed out punishments to Rangers.

After trying to tax Illinois to governmental solvency and economic dynamism, Pat Quinn, a Democrat who has been governor since 2009, now says "our rendezvous with reality has arrived."

Police investigating the deaths of a mother and daughter in an arson attack in Dungannon say they want to identify two men seen in the area.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has spoken in support of Arab VIPS visiting al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

Plans to send warning letters to suspected illegal file-sharers have been put off until at least 2014, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport confirms.

Great Britain's men's and women's football teams will face Brazil and Sweden respectively in Olympic warm-up games at Middlesbrough.

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LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- In a historic ruling, an international court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity for supporting notoriously brutal rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone in return for blood diamonds....