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(Reuters) – A brazen gang of cyber criminals, who stole $45 million from bank ATMs in 27 countries, exposes an Achilles heel in the global financial industry: prepaid debit cards.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – A woman was rescued today after spending 17 days trapped under the rubble of a Bangladesh factory building that collapsed on April 24, killing more than 1,000 people, police and military officials said.

ROME/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – If Russia has decided to make a new diplomatic push to drag Syria’s warring parties into peace talks, it may be because of signs that the United States could slowly get sucked into the conflict.

NEW YORK/BOSTON,  (Reuters) – In one of the biggest ever bank heists, a global cyber crime ring stole $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks by hacking into credit card processing firms and withdrawing money from ATMs in 27 countries, U.S.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – When Imran Khan tumbled spectacularly off a mechanical lift at an election rally this week, a frenzy of media coverage erupted, the last thing Pakistan’s mainstream parties needed as they fend off a spoiler threatening to up-end the political order.

ONITSHA, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – Nigerian militants killed 46 police officers during an ambush in the north central state of Nassarawa this week, the police said today.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Gunmen kidnapped the son of a former Pakistani prime minister today as a letter from the leader of the Pakistani Taliban revealed plans for suicide bomb attacks on election day.

CLEVELAND,  (Reuters) – Three young women newly freed from a decade-long kidnapping ordeal in Cleveland endured their captivity in the dungeon-like confines of a squalid house, where they were raped, starved, beaten and kept in chains by the man who abducted them, authorities said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s coalition government put a crackdown on immigration at the heart of its legislative agenda yesterday in the hope of stopping an exodus of voters to a populist anti-immigration party before a national election in 2015.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The attorney for Michael Jackson’s estate today described as “outrageous and pathetic” a fresh claim of child molestation against the dead pop star, made by one of his close friends.

CLEVELAND,  (Reuters) – Cleveland resident Ariel Castro was charged on Wednesday with raping and kidnapping three women who were rescued on Monday after nearly a decade in captivity at his house.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – As three Cleveland women reunited with their families yesterday after vanishing for about a decade in their        own neighbourhood, police scoured the house they escaped from for clues on how they could be held captive for so long with no one noticing.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The Dow closed above 15,000 for the first time today and the S&P 500 ended at another record high, extending the market’s rally as more investors rushed to join the party and German industrial data beat expectations.

LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan injured his head after falling off a mechanical lift raising him onto a stage at a rally today four days before national elections, party and medical officials said.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – Three women who vanished as teenagers about a decade ago were discovered alive in a house in Cleveland, and the home’s owner and his two brothers were arrested, police said today.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil plans to hire 6,000 Cuban doctors to serve in remote parts of the country where medical services are deficient or nonexistent, despite controversy over the quality of their training.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved yesterday when a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S.

ROME, (Reuters) – Giulio Andreotti, who served as Italian prime minister seven times and whose name was synonymous with political survival and cunning in the land that gave the world Machiavelli, died yesterday at the age of 94.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – China is using espionage to acquire technologies to fuel its fast-paced military modernization program, the Pentagon said yesterday in an annual report that for the first time accused Beijing of trying to break into U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – The bodies of a new bride and four friends who died trapped inside a burning limousine on a bridge over San Francisco Bay were found pressed against an opening between the passenger compartment and driver’s seat, a county coroner said yesterday.