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ATLIXCO, Mexico (Reuters) – Sex sells – at least that’s what the ruling party candidate is hoping as she seeks to rescue her fading chances in Mexico’s upcoming presidential election.

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s new prime minister, Victor Ponta, has been accused by an anonymous whistleblower of copying large parts of his doctoral thesis without attribution, the journal Nature reported yesterday.

By Bernd Debusmann The 2012 global performance scorecard is in and the grade for Barack Obama is “failed to meet expectations.”

ATHENS,  (Reuters) – Parties supporting a bailout saving Greece from bankruptcy won a slim parliamentary majority yesterday, beating radical leftists who rejected austerity and bringing relief to the euro zone which was braced for fresh financial turmoil.

ZARIA, Nigeria, (Reuters) – Suicide car bombers attacked three churches in northern Nigeria yesterday, killing at least 19 people, wounding dozens and triggering retaliatory attacks by Christian youths who dragged Muslims from cars and killed them, witnesses said.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The Muslim Brotherhood’s party declared last night that its candidate Mohamed Morsy had won Egypt’s first free presidential election, beating Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister Ahmed Shafik and ending a tradition of rule by presidents plucked from the military.

AJIJIC, Mexico, (Reuters) – For decades, American and Canadian expats have flocked to the shores of Chapala, seeking refuge in the spring-like climate of Mexico’s largest natural lake, where English author D.H.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Rodney King, the black man who came to symbolize racial tensions in the United States after his 1991 beating by police led to riots in Los Angeles a year later, was found dead in a swimming pool yesterday in Rialto, California, police said.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – A decade ago, there were plenty of doomsday forecasts asserting the AIDS pandemic would sharply curtail African economic growth with a particular focus on its impact on food security.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – When an earthquake shook Haiti’s capital in January 2010, bringing death and destruction to the impoverished Caribbean nation, it all but crushed the dreams of modern dance choreographer Jeanguy Saintus.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The animals of “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” held the top spot on U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s claim to have unearthed six bones belonging to John the Baptist has received a boost from scientists who have concluded after dating them and analysing their genetic code that they could indeed be relics of the man who baptised Jesus.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s election today is too close to call and could push the debt-ridden country out of the European single currency, rocking the euro to its core and sowing turmoil in global financial markets.

LOS CABOS, Mexico (Reuters) – The world’s biggest economies must commit to a strong Europe and open their wallets to boost the International Monetary Fund’s ability to contain fallout from Europe’s debt crisis, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said yesterday.

RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah will bury his former heir, Crown Prince Nayef, in Mecca today, and must now name a new successor to rule the world’s biggest oil exporter.

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the Federal Communications Commission is asking for a review of the agency’s stance on radiofrequency energy emitted from cell phones amid lingering concerns that the devices may cause brain tumours.

OSLO (Reuters) – Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally received her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo yesterday after spending 15 years under house arrest, and said her country’s full transformation to democracy was still far off.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Escalating violence in Syria forced United Nations observers to suspend operations n yesterday, in the clearest sign yet that a peace plan brokered by international mediator Kofi Annan has collapsed.

LONDON (Reuters) – Developing nations must be ready for a severe global financial crisis should the Eurozone fail to cope with its current problems, outgoing World Bank chief Robert Zoellick said in an interview published online yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who were brought into the United States as children will be able to avoid deportation and get work permits under an order yesterday by President Barack Obama.