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A massive manhunt is under way for a man wanted for questioning in the shooting death of a park ranger and a shooting that left four injured in Washington state.

European stock markets head higher in early trading Monday, while South Korea’s benchmark Kospi closes flat following the New Year’s holiday weekend.

The euro weakened for a sixth day against the yen on concern Europe’s debt crisis will weigh on the region’s economic growth. The 17-nation currency also fell against the dollar.

Some of the crew of a burning Russian nuclear submarine were still inside and seven others had been evacuated to hospitals after inhaling toxic fumes.

North Korea announces there would be no change in its policy under its new leader, Kim Jong-un, striking a characteristically hostile posture with a threat to punish President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea for “unforgivable sins.”

European stocks were little changed after Italy missed its fundraising target at a bond sale, while its borrowing costs eased. U.S. index futures rose, while Asian shares fell.

A judge subpoenas the husband of the daughter of Spain’s King Juan Carlos to testify as a suspect in a corruption case, deepening a public relations nightmare for the royal family.

An air strike by Turkish warplanes near a Kurdish village of Uludere in Sirnak, close to the border with Iraq has left 35 people dead.

A chimpanzee who apparently starred in Tarzan films in the 1930s has died at the age of 80, according to the sanctuary where he lived.

The funeral of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il unfolded across the snow-laden streets of Pyongyang, a three-hour event that displayed the secretive regime’s ability to choreograph elaborate state ceremonies.

Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez will undergo surgery next week after doctors diagnosed her with thyroid cancer.

An al-Qaeda front group in Iraq says it was behind the wave of attacks that killed 69 people on a single day last week.

Two Swedish journalists have been jailed for 11 years in Ethiopia on charges of illegally entering the country and supporting terrorism.

An Arab League mission arrives in Homs amid reports of escalating violence. The team is in Syria to assess if the government is upholding commitment to end its crackdown.

Brazil has overtaken the UK as the world’s sixth largest economy, an economic research group reports.

A delegation of South Korean citizens arrived in Pyongyang on Monday to express condolences over the death of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

At least seven people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack outside Iraq’s interior ministry in Baghdad.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says massacres by French colonialists in Algeria was genocide, responding to French legislators passing a bill making it a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago

The town of Christchurch, where an earthquake left 181 dead only 10 months ago, was shaken by two successive quakes on Friday afternoon local time. There are no deaths reported, although 19 people have been hospitalized.

The explosions in Syria’s capital claimed the lives of civilians and soldiers, according to Syrian state television.

Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev used his final state-of-the-nation address to outline extensive political reforms that, if implemented, would begin to deconstruct the heavily centralized government built by his mentor, Vladimir V. Putin.

U.S. stock-index futures rose, indicating the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX) will advance for a third day, as investors awaited reports on consumer confidence and initial jobless claims for signals of economic recovery.

A wave of bomb attacks strikes in the Iraqi capital, killing at least 63 people and injuring at least 185. The bombings are the worst in months – and follow the withdrawal of US troops.

Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the son and presumed heir of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, is alive and well and being held by a rebel militia outside the Libyan capital.

Hackers in China broke into the the U.S. Chamber of Commerce computer system and had access to everything stored there. The attack was cut off in May 2010.

North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week’s death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie.

Fierce winds and snow that caused fatal accidents, shuttered highways in five states and may have caused a deadly plane crash, crawled deeper into the Great Plains early Tuesday, with forecasters warning that pre-holiday travel would be difficult if not i

Syria will execute anyone who participates in terrorist acts or distributes weapons, state television announced Tuesday, in the latest escalation against an uprising which the United Nations estimates has claimed about 5,000 lives since March.

Kim Jong-il’s son and heir and senior officials pay their respects as the late North Korean leader lies in state ahead of his funeral next week.

Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.43 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.26 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.38 percent.

At least one person has died in fresh clashes between protesters and troops in the Egyptian capital Cairo, bringing the death toll since Friday to 11.

Seoul put South Korean forces on high alert and Pyongyang urged an increase in its “military capability” as the death of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Il spurred fresh security concerns in the tense region.

Engineers have brought the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to a “cold shutdown condition”, nine months after the earthquake and tsunami, Japan has confirmed.

Hollywood actor Christian Bale was blocked by security guards from visiting Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human rights activist living under house arrest.

Retreating from their harsh partisan sniping, and perhaps fearing public rebuke, Congressional leaders have agreed on a large-scale spending measure to keep the government running for the next nine months.

In one of the worst-ever hooch tragedies in West Bengal, 111 people, mostly labourers, rickshaw-pullers and hawkers, died and over 50 were still battling for life in three hospitals after consuming spurious liquor at Mograhat in South 24 Parganas district

After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead, 32,000 wounded and more than $800 billion, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq.