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Spanish bonds lead a slump among the euro-region’s higher-yielding government securities, after a minister from the Iberian nation called on the European Central Bank to buy its debt to stem the financial-market turmoil.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker was taken to a hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation he suffered while rescuing his next-door neighbors from their burning house.

Defying warnings from the international community, North Korea launched a long-range rocket, but it broke apart before escaping the earth’s atmosphere and fell into the sea.

David Cameron has become the first British prime minister to visit Burma after arriving in the capital Nay Pyi Taw.

At least 23 people were killed when a bus collided head-on with a truck in Suzhou city in eastern China, in the latest serious accident on the country’s chaotic roads.

Connecticut’s House of Representatives has approved a bill to ban the death penalty that was passed by the state Senate last week and is expected to be signed into law by the governor, making Connecticut the fifth state to ban capital punishment

The attorney for George Zimmerman plans to ask a judge to allow the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing an unarmed, black teen to post bond — though he believes it will be difficult.

Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing extremist who confessed to killing 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage in Norway is not criminally insane, according to a new psychiatric examination.

Britain wants Argentina to pay back £45 million in loans that the country’s former military junta used to fund equipment that was later used in the invasion of the Falkland Islands.

A court in Egypt has suspended the 100-member assembly appointed last month to draft the country’s new constitution.

The Japanese electronics giant will cut 6 percent of its entire workforce, by as early as the end of 2012.

Rebels in Syria have rejected a last-minute demand by the government, made just 48 hours ahead of a proposed ceasefire which now looks set to fail.

Al Qaeda militants seized control of a military base and two checkpoints during raids in southern Yemen, leaving at least 21 people dead.

78 year-old Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has died after suffering a heart attack, according to medical and government sources

Mali’s Tuareg rebels, who have seized control of the country’s north in the chaotic aftermath of a military coup in the capital, declare independence of the Azawad nation.

Russia has criticized the United States for handing down a 25-year sentence to Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, saying the verdict against him was “baseless and biased.”

Protesters clash with riot police in Athens, hours after a pensioner shot himself dead outside parliament, blasting politicians over the country’s financial crisis in his suicide note.

The UN Security Council’s call for an immediate ceasefire and return to democracy in Mali has prompted an announcement of an end to “military operations” by Tuareg rebels in the north.

Syrian troops target neighborhoods near Damascus as U.N. peacekeepers are scheduled to arrive in the capital for talks on deploying observers to monitor a cease-fire.

Rick Santorum turns his focus to his home state of Pennsylvania as he faces an uphill battle to convince Republicans he can stop Mitt Romney from clinching the party nomination after his three-primary sweep.

New York police have opened an investigation into the circumstances of the death of a prominent French academic, Richard Descoings, whose naked body was found in a New York hotel room.

Serbian pro-Western President Boris Tadic announces his resignation, paving the way for an early presidential election where he will face a strong challenge from a nationalist candidate.

The United States has put up a $10 million reward to help arrest Pakistani Islamist leader Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, suspected of masterminding two attacks on Mumbai and the parliament building in New Delhi.

One L. Goh, the 43-year-old former student of a small Christian university in California who opened fire at the school Monday, has given no motive after his arrest. Officers are still looking for the weapon with which he killed at least seven people.

Twelve people have died after a fire tore through a Moscow market warehouse where migrant workers were living.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party says it had won at least 43 out of the 44 parliamentary seats that it contested in the southeast Asian country’s parliamentary by-elections.

Unemployment across countries that use the euro edged higher in February to 10.8%, the highest level since the introduction of the single currency in 1999. Spain has the highest rate of 23.6%.

A Russian passenger plane crashed and burst into flames after takeoff in an oil-producing region of Siberia. Thirteen survivors were pulled from the wreckage and rushed to hospital by helicopter.

Taliban suspected after Afghan policeman kills nine of his fellow officers as they lay sleeping in a village in the eastern Paktika province.

Annan says “deadline is now” for Syrian troops to halt their assaults, as diplomatic momentum is put at risk.

French president compares the effect in France of this month’s seven murders by a self-proclaimed Islamic radical to the trauma of the Sep. 11 attacks in the U.S.

Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah is to be buried in France after Algerian authorities deny permission for a burial.

Huge traffic jams snarl central Madrid, as Spain’s first general strike in more than a year kicks off with nine people slightly injured in demonstrations, including police officers.

Japan hangs three convicted multiple murderers, its first executions in almost two years, putting it back alongside the United States as the only leading developed nations to carry out the death penalty.

Syrian government forces keep up heavy weapons fire and siege tactics against opposition strongholds despite President Bashar al-Assad’s acceptance of a peace plan calling for the army to withdraw to its barracks.

Energy giant Total is trying to contain a gas leak that forced the evacuation of a well off the coast of Scotland.

Pope Benedict XVI meets Cuban President Raul Castro on the second day of his visit to the communist-run island, and is to meet Fidel Castro later.

Syria’s government accepts the peace plan put forward by the United Nations and Arab League envoy, Kofi Annan.

President Nicolas Sarkozy urges television networks not to broadcast video footage of three deadly shootings in southern France filmed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman using a camera strapped to his body.