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Tanned and toned athletes in eye-popping outfits will compete for Olympic medals outside the British prime minister's famous Downing Street home, but it's government workers, not the U.K. leader, who will get the VIP view.

South Africa's governing party said Thursday it will demand the removal of a painting from an exhibition by one of the nation's best-known artists that ridicules the party and the president with graphic and provocative imagery.

Colombian authorities have arrested a former provincial lawmaker for allegedly telling leftist rebels in detail how to kidnap his fellow lawmakers.

Venezuela's planning minister says the South American country's economy grew 5.6 percent during the first three months of 2012.

Jorge Giordani says the economy could grow by as much as 7 percent this year.

Fears surrounding the stability of the 17-country eurozone - particularly the state of Spain's financial system and whether Greece might be forced out of the single currency union - pushed global markets down again on Thursday.

The winds blowing through Canada's broad St. Lawrence Valley and across Vermont's hilltops are stirring up an international tempest over which country's laws should govern how those breezes are harnessed for electricity.

Government troops battling al-Qaida fighters in southern Yemen have made inroads into the militants' strongholds, but the offensive on a strategic city has slowed because of concerns the extremists could launch a surprise counterattack, military...

An Egyptian court on Thursday found 14 policemen not guilty in the killing of protesters during last year's popular uprising, the latest verdict in what activists claim to be a pattern of acquittals for police blamed for the deaths of hundreds of people...