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Francoise has been trying to gain control of the family’s assets for two years.

Suicide rates are skyrocketing in a country already beset by massive job cuts, austerity spending, slashed pensions, and soaring taxes.

Gallagher, former member of British pop group, Oasis, is a renowned Beatles fanatic.

Some Haitians have reportedly called for the complete removal of all UN peacekeepers from the country.

South Africa is awash in corruption and financial mismanagement.

Right now, Saudi Arabia and Iran are engaged in a proxy war in Bahrain.

Thousands of people protested outside the European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, on Saturday in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Greece is not able to pay back its current debts even over the course of generations, according to Andreas Schmitz, president of BdB, a German bank lobbying group.

The Italian version of the Occupy Wall Street movement turned violent Satudary as protesters in Rome burned cars and smashed shop windows.

Those attending the London protests appeared to be students, unemployed college graduates, elderly pensioners and even passing tourists.

Hermes is following in the footsteps of two other shareholder advisory groups that have also recommended that certain members of the Murdoch family (and others) be removed from the board of directors.

Obese girls are up to nine times more likely to develop SBP than non-obese girls.

The Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER) reduced its forecast for the country’s economic growth this year to 4.58 percent from its previous 5.02 percent estimate.

Unions have been banned in the once-closed society since 1962.

Iran has denied the allegations and shrugged them off as more propaganda by Washington.

Royal Bank of Scotland plc (NYSE: RBS), is the "most vulnerable" bank in Europe and may have to raise billions of dollars to strengthen its capital ratios, warned analysts at Credit Suisse. Dozens of British banks, including RBS, released results of new stress tests form to the European Banking Authority on Thursday.

Pathum Thani, a town only 30 miles north of Bangkok, is already heavily flooded.

Bashir has been welcomed in the Malawi capital of Lilongwe by government officials in order to attend a trade summit.

The credit agency’s downgrade of Spain follows a similar cut by Fitch Ratings last week.

urma, which recently put in place a nominally civilian leadership, has been gradually making some political reforms.

Oslo police prosecutor Christian Hatlo is apparently skeptical about Breivik’s claims, which he made shortly after his arrest.

Israeli President Shimon Peres told media that he was “pleasantly surprised” by Erdogan's help in winning Shalit’s release,

he bus veered off a road, lost control and dropped 400 meters (1,312 feet) from a cliff into the Sunkosi river.

She admitted she could not even identify the women in Cameron’s cabinet.

Kenyan police told Reuters that both kidnap victims are women and that they believe al-Shabab, the Somali militant group linked to al-Qaeda, are responsible.

The Fund said gross domestic product (GDP) growth across Asia will average 6.3 percent in 2011, and 6.7 percent in 2012 (in April, the IMF forecast nearly 7 percent growth for both years).

The Wall Street Journal newspaper has been accused of using a questionable to scheme to inflate its circulation numbers in Europe by permitting sponsor companies to purchase copies in bulk for as little as 1 cent each.

They lowered their 2012 GDP forecast to 0.8 percent from their previous estimate of 2 percent, partially due to the spiraling debt crisis in the Eurozone.

All told, BP and its partners will invest nearly £10 billion ($15.7 billion) in North Sea oil and gas properties over the next five years.