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Anders Behring Breivik, who confessed to killing 77 people and injuring 151 in Norway last July, has been formally charged with committing acts of terror.

The first major commercial airline in more than 20 years has landed at Mogadishu airport in war-torn Somalia.

Amid a soaring death toll and a call for airstrikes against the Syrian regime, the body of American journalist Marie Colvin is expected to return to the U.S. today.

Mitt Romney can take a big step toward finishing off chief rival Rick Santorum and seizing command of the Republican presidential race on “Super Tuesday,” as 10 states hold contests with Ohio at ground zero.

International observers report ballot stuffing and other irregularities as Vladimir Putin announces he has won the race to be Russia’s new president.

Dozens of gunmen have launched a pre-dawn raid on police targets in the western Iraqi city of Haditha, killing at least 27 police officers.

Al-Qaida militants have launched a surprise attack against army bases in southern Yemen, killing 78 soldiers, seizing weapons and parading 55 troops they had taken captive through the centre of a town under their control.

A Red Cross aid convoy has entered the shattered Baba Amro district of Homs after a Syrian official declared the area “cleansed” and the opposition spoke of a massacre by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

Oil prices have spiked to their highest levels since 2008 on fears that tensions with Iran have the potential to disrupt supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.

All EU 27 states but UK and Czech Republic have signed a new treaty to enforce budget discipline within the bloc.

Tornadoes have roared through middle America, flattening entire blocks of homes in small-town Illinois and Kansas and killing at least 12 people.

The jobless rate in the 17 countries that use the euro rose to 10.7% in January, while December’s figure was revised up from 10.4% to 10.6%.

Disembarkation of more than 1100 passengers begins in the Seychelles as stricken cruise ship Costa Allegra docks successfully.

A relieved Mitt Romney heads back to the campaign trail after sweeping crucial primaries in Arizona and his childhood home of Michigan to revitalize his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has provided a further 530bn euros ($713bn) of low-interest loans to 800 banks across the European Union.

Security forces are advancing on the rebel-held neighborhood of Baba Amr in Homs, as Syrian officials confirm a ground offensive is under way.

Cruise ship left adrift in the Indian Ocean with more than 1,000 people on board now being hauled toward land by French fishing vessel.

Passenger bus targeted in the northern Pakistani district of Kohistan in an apparent sectarian attack.

Israeli officials say they won’t warn the U.S. to decrease the likelihood that the Washington would be held responsible for failing to stop Israel’s potential attack.

Outgoing Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has formally handed over power to his vice-president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the winner of an uncontested campaign to replace him after 33 years of one-man rule.

Nostalgia ruled at the Oscars, with the classic film homages “The Artist” and “Hugo” dominating with five awards each, Meryl Streep winning her first best-actress prize in nearly three decades.

Russian and Ukrainian special services have arrested a group of suspects over an alleged plot to assassinate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

World powers convening Friday in Tunisia are mapping out a plan to call for a cease-fire and give political legitimacy to the Syrian opposition, while details emerged that Arab nations have begun supplying arms to Syrian rebels.

Dutch Prince Johan Friso, injured in an avalanche last week, is in a coma and may never regain consciousness, doctors treating him in Austria say.

A huge air strike in al-Shabab-held southern Somalia has killed at least six people, including foreign militants of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab rebels.

Britain and France demand Syrian President Bashar al-Assad cease attacks against the besieged opposition stronghold of Homs to allow three journalists to receive medical care even as reports emerged of renewed shelling in the flashpoint city.

World leaders are attending a major conference on the future of Somalia in London to focus on finding peace and ending threats of terrorism and piracy.

A wave of bombings across Iraq has killed dozens of people, in a grim indication of the strength of the insurgency two months after the U.S. military completed its withdrawal.

American journalist Marie Colvin and award-winning French photographer Remi Ochlik have been killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs amid heavy shelling from government forces.

Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigns amid speculation that he might mount a leadership challenge to Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

At least four people in Afghanistan have been killed and 20 injured as protests spread over the burning of copies of the Koran at a US airbase near Kabul.

Eurozone finance ministers from 17 nations have sealed a deal for a second bailout for Greece, giving the country funding it needs to avoid a potential default.

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being questioned by French police investigating a suspected hotel prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille.

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered outside the Baghram Airfield in Afghanistan, spurred by reports that U.S. soldiers had burned a copy of the Quran at the base.

Oil prices have jumped to nearly 105 dollars a barrel – a nine-month high – in Asia, after Iran said it halted crude exports to Britain and France in a dispute over its nuclear program.

A team of United Nations inspectors have arrived in Tehran, saying its highest priority remained “the possible military dimensions” that Tehran denies are part of its disputed nuclear program.

South Korea has fired live artillery in a military drill near the country’s heavily armed border with North Korea, which has described the exercise as a provocation.

New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict and turmoil, has died of an apparent asthma attack.

German President Christian Wulff announces his resignation, after prosecutors called for his immunity to be lifted amid a home loan scandal. Angela Merkel says she received news of President Wulff’s resignation “with regret”.

Armed robbers have stolen several dozen artefacts from Greece’s Ancient Olympia Museum, which houses one of the most important collections of ancient Greek antiquities.