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SYDNEY, (Reuters Life!) – Nancy Wake, a much-decorated  World War Two spy and Resistance heroine known as “The White  Mouse” for her ability to remain undetected, and who at one  point was the Gestapo’s most wanted person, has died in London  at the age of 98.

NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – No need for Kanye West  and Jay-Z to simply watch a throne.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters Life!) – The classic 1987 film  “Dirty Dancing” is getting a remake, adding songs from the  1960s and brand new compositions to some of the original music,  film studio Lionsgate said yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Fans of the movie  “Life in a Day” who think it is a one-shot chance to see a film  portraying one day in the life of ordinary people around the  world should think twice — quite literally.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s King  Abdullah demanded an end to the bloodshed in Syria yesterday and  recalled his country’s ambassador from Damascus, in a rare case  of one of the Arab world’s most powerful leaders intervening  against another.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Groups of youths attacked shops  and damaged a police car in north London yesterday as police  sent in reinforcements to prevent more rioting on the scale that  laid waste to another area of  the British capital 24 hours  earlier.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Sudanese security forces have  confiscated the entire edition of an independent newspaper in  the capital Khartoum, its editor said yesterday, the latest sign  of a media crackdown.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Miami police arrested Outkast  rapper and “Hey Ya” singer Big Boi yesterday for possessing  ecstasy and other drugs that the performer’s lawyer later  characterized as “contraband.”

PARIS/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Global leaders yesterday arranged a round of emergency calls to discuss the twin debt crises in Europe and the United States that are causing turmoil in financial markets.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – A top official at Brazil’s agriculture ministry tendered his resignation  yesterday following corruption allegations, the latest blow to President Dilma Rousseff’s seven-month old government.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed said yesterday his military had defeated Islamist rebels battling to overthrow his Western-backed government after the al Shabaab group began withdrawing fighters from the capital Mogadishu.

SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh will leave hospital soon, a government source said yesterday, as clashes between his loyalists and opponents flared in the capital he left when protests against his rule turned into open warfare.

KABUL (Reuters) – A NATO helicopter crashed during a battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan, killing 31 US soldiers and seven Afghans, the Afghan president said yesterday, the deadliest single incident for foreign troops in 10 years of war.

(Reuters) – Former Beatle Paul McCartney said on Thursday that he appears to be a victim of the newspaper phone hacking scandal in Britain and will be talking to police when he finishes a U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United States lost its  top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s yesterday  in an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the world’s  largest economy.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed out their  worst week in more than two years yesterday in a volatile  session that saw the major indexes whip back and forth before  the S&P 500 ended down less than a point.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Carbon offsets neared all-time  lows yesterday, confirming their status as the world’s worst  performing commodity, as slumping demand meets rising supply of  the U.N.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Emily killed four  people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, authorities said yesterday, as remnants of the storm drifted over the Caribbean  with a “high chance” of restrengthening into a tropical  cyclone.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The illness of Sonia Gandhi,  India’s most powerful political leader, may have set off a risky  succession that could propel her inexperienced son Rahul to  government just as the ruling Congress party battles corruption  scandals and high inflation.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Investors around the world  dumped stocks and commodities yesterday and rushed to the  security of cash and government bonds, hammering equity indexes  to their lowest levels of the year on fears of a spreading debt  crisis and slowing growth.