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Greece's finance minister headed for Brussels to try to clinch a new aid deal with European partners after all-night talks in Athens stumbled over demands for deep cuts in pension benefits.

A high-profile trial that could cut short the Spanish judicial career of Baltasar Garzón ended with a defiant pledge of innocence by the magistrate who led international pushes for cross-border justice.

Fabio Capello quit as England's national team coach just four months before the European Championship.

The sudden "sick leave" taken by Wang Lijun, the former police chief of the Chinese city of Chongqing, fueled rumors that he had sought political asylum with the U.S. a day earlier.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, expected to become China's next leader, is scheduled to visit the Pentagon next week as part of a high-profile trip to the U.S., a U.S. official said Wednesday.

India increased its imports of Iranian oil to become the Islamic Republic's largest customer last month, largely offsetting a cut in Chinese purchases as sanctions fail to significantly dent Tehran's sales.

Mohamed Nasheed, former president of the Maldives, is awaiting arrest in Male, the capital of the tiny island nation, according to the nation's former foreign minister.

The CTV Building in Christchurch, whose collapse following an earthquake a year ago killed 115 people, didn't meet building standards in place when it went up in 1986, New Zealand officials said.

The U.S. and Japanese governments are scaling back a controversial plan to relocate American military forces in Japan, bowing to intense local opposition and underscoring the inability of Japan's leadership to fulfill policy pledges.

In Beijing, Canadian Prime Minister Harper pledged closer trade ties with China even as he pressed Beijing over its recent decision to block a U.N. Security Council resolution against Syria's government.

As reports of assaults by Syrian forces continued for a fifth day, Russia’s leaders attempted to fend off criticism that they were doing nothing effective to stop the bloodshed.

Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and leaders in his government pledged to resume talks to reach an agreement on measures required for a bailout.

The people of Tijuana, Mexico, are of two minds on the demolition of the infamous La Ocho prison and the future of a city that has been known for its vice.

An intense debate has erupted over when Tehran’s nuclear facilities will become invulnerable to an Israeli attack, and if economic sanctions need more time to work.

A 23-year-old Saudi columnist fled the country, his associates said Wednesday, after his tweets on the human nature of the Prophet Muhammad led prominent clerics and thousands of their followers to use Twitter, YouTube, email and fax to demand the writer's execution.

A federal grand jury indicted a San Francisco Bay area couple on charges of conspiring to steal DuPont trade secrets and sell them to Chinese state-owned companies.

African nations are sacrificing billions of dollars in potential trade each year due to inefficient border crossings and discordant regulations, the World Bank said.

Egyptian judges detailed evidence they say implicates 43 nongovernmental organization workers in acts of political subterfuge.

Turkey called for a summit on Syria to coordinate policy between players and world powers, as Syrian troops continued an attack on Homs.

Investigating judges accused the Americans of manipulating the Egyptian political process and improperly collecting information to send home to the United States.