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Forbes
July was a great month for stocks with the Dow Industrials up 4%, the S&P 500 gained 4.9%, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 6.6%. The small-cap Russell 2000 was the leader,...
Deutsche Welle
Italy's highest court has handed ex-leader Silvio Berlusconi a final conviction for tax fraud. But house arrest rather than a jail sentence is looming. And political reverberations...
Huffington Post
For some, a successful political career is mainly a question of stamina. Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish Prime Minister, gave a master class in political resistance under severe...

A triptych with Jesus on the cross in the middle, Gethsemane in the left and Resurrection of Jesus in the right panel.
Relic found within small stone chest The archaeologists came across a small stone chest while working in the ruins of the Balatlar Church. The chest bore two crosses which were carved into the stone. Inside the chest were a number of relics believed...
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Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C
WASHINGTON -- A woman charged with defacing the Washington National Cathedral has been ordered released to a halfway house. Jiamei Tian appeared at a preliminary hearing in D.C. Superior Court on Friday. A judge also ordered that she wear an ankle...
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Afghan police take cover following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013.
Jalalabad: More than 20 Afghan policemen and dozens of Taliban insurgents were killed on Friday when hundreds of fighters ambushed a police and military convoy in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. The five-hour battle in the Sherzad district of...
photo: AP / Ahmad Jamshid
Rescue workers during Santiago de Compostela derailment
MADRID -- The driver of a Spanish train that derailed, killing 79 people, ignored three warnings to reduce speed in the two minutes before the train hurtled off the tracks on a treacherous curve, crash investigators said Friday. A court statement...
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe during the first session of the 3rd Africa-EU Summit in Tripoli, Libya, Monday Nov. 29, 2010.
President Robert Mugabe's party has won at least a two-thirds majority in parliament, enough to amend the country's constitution, according to a tally of official results. Friday's results showed Mugabe had won 142 seats of 180 for the 210-member...
photo: AP / Geert Vanden Wijngaert
President Barack Obama greets German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the official arrivals for the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington
BERLIN (AP) — Germany canceled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain on Friday in response to revelations by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden about those countries' alleged electronic eavesdropping...
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, waves to his supporters, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. The leader of the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group has claimed responsibility for launching the drone aircraft that entered Israeli airspace earlier this week. The rare admission Thursday by Hassan Nasrallah raises regional tensions at a sensitive time when the group's backers, Syria and Iran, are under pressure
Reuters August 2, 2013 - 16:00 BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gave a rare public address on Friday, delivering a speech in south Beirut to hundreds of supporters in support of Palestinians. It was the first public...
photo: AP / Hussein Malla