BAILOUT LENDERS GRANT PORTUGAL EASIER DEBT TARGETS
By BARRY HATTON Fernando Cruz, right, and Sandra Alves dismantle their clothes and accessories store after closing it down due to the lack of customers, in Lisbon, Monday, March 11,…
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FRANCE READY TO ARM SYRIAN REBELS
By RAF CASERT French President Francois Hollande, right, speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU summit Brussels on Thursday, March 14, 2013. European Union heads of state…
PHYSICISTS SAY THEY HAVE FOUND A HIGGS BOSON
By JOHN HEILPRIN FILE – This 2011 image provided by CERN, shows a real CMS proton-proton collision in which four high energy electrons (green lines and red towers) are observed…
OBAMA SENDS PRAYERS, WARM WISHES TO NEW POPE
By JOSH LEDERMAN Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who chose the…
VATICAN: VICTIM GROUP WRONG TO CRITICIZE CARDINALS
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican spokesman says a group representing church sex abuse victims is acting out of “negative prejudices” when criticizing cardinals. The Reverend Federico Lombardi was responding…
LAST SURVIVOR OF PLOT TO KILL HITLER DIES AT 90
By DAVID RISING FILE – In this Oct. 16, 1997 file picture Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, is honored at a ceremony in Bonn, Germany. Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, the last surviving member…
CARDINALS LOCKED INTO SISTINE CHAPEL TO PICK POPE
By NICOLE WINFIELD Cardinals attend a Mass for the election of a new pope celebrated by Cardinal Angelo Sodano inside St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 12, 2013.…
ISRAELI PRESIDENT: IRAN IS WORLD’S GREATEST DANGER
Israeli President Shimon Peres delivers his statement at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Tuesday March 12, 2013. Peres has been traveling between Brussels, Paris and Strasbourg to meet…