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LONDON, (Reuters) – A British man infected with a new virus from the same family as SARS has died, health officials said yesterday, bringing the worldwide death toll from the previously unknown disease to six.

GENEVA – North Korea threatened South Korea with “final destruction” during a debate at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday, saying it could take further steps after a nuclear test last week.

Rob Morrison, a news anchor for WCBS-TV, was arrested on Sunday on charges of choking his wife during a domestic dispute at their Connecticut home, the police said on Monday.

(Reuters) – A federal commission today said the U.S. education system had “thoroughly stacked the odds” against impoverished students and warned that an aggressive reform agenda embraced by both Democrats and Republicans had not done enough to improve public schools.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Robbers dressed as police and armed with machineguns have stolen 120 parcels of diamonds worth millions of dollars from the runway of Brussels Airport in one of the biggest heists the industry has seen.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – North Korea threatened South Korea with “final destruction” during a debate at the U.N

GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations investigators said yesterday that Syrian leaders they had identified as suspected war criminals should face the International Criminal Court (ICC).’

HAVANA (Reuters) – A seven-member delegation of US lawmakers arrived in Cuba yesterday in the latest effort to move forward political relations that have been at a standstill since US government contractor Alan Gross was imprisoned there in 2009.

(Reuters) – Upping the educational value of what young children watch on television and choosing to avoid violence-prone programming may help improve their behavior, according to a US study that looked at several hundred preschoolers.

Fighting breaks out in Sudan’s Blue Nile border state CAIRO (Reuters) – Fighting broke out in a Sudanese border state between the military and rebels trying to overthrow President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, both sides said yesterday, and the government said its forces had killed scores of insurgents.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Britain and India are expected to agree to set up a joint task force to fight cyber crime today, a move London hopes will help it safeguard the personal banking and mobile phone data of millions of Britons, much of which is stored on Indian servers.

LONDON (Reuters) – Nestle, the world’s biggest food company, has removed beef pasta meals from sale in Italy and Spain after finding traces of horse DNA.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – United Nations investigators said today that Syrian leaders they had identified as suspected war criminals should face the International Criminal Court (ICC).

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Respected anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele launched a new political party today to challenge South Africa’s ruling ANC, saying self-interested and corrupt leaders were threatening the continent’s biggest economy.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters gathered on the Washington’s National Mall yesterday calling on U.S.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israeli lawmakers announced plans yesterday to investigate the 2010 jailhouse death of a reported Australian immigrant recruit to the Mossad spy agency.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The White House is drafting a backup immigration reform plan in case a bipartisan congressional committee working on a bill fails, an Obama Administration official said yesterday, though a key Republican said the president’s plan would be “dead on arrival” on Capitol Hill.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – One of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi’s sons withdrew from taking up a job with a firm affiliated to the civil aviation ministry yesterday amid media accusations of nepotism.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba’s best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, checked in without incident at Havana’s international airport today on her way to Brazil, the first stop on an 80-day-tour of a dozen countries.

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan security forces will be banned from calling for NATO air strikes in residential areas to help in their operations, President Hamid Karzai said yesterday, three days after 10 civilians died in such a strike in the country’s east.