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LONDON (AFP) - Steelmaker Corus is poised to cut over 3,500 jobs around the world, the majority in Britain, the BBC reported on Sunday.

AFP - Hurricane-force winds lashed Spain and France Saturday, killing at least 15 people including four children when part of a sports hall collapsed, while over a million were left without power.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African high court will set a date on Feb 4 for a corruption trial of ANC President Jacob Zuma following a court decision to overturn a ruling dismissing graft charges, a…

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration plans to move quickly to tighten the nation’s financial regulatory system. Officials say they will make wide-ranging changes, including stricter federal rules for hedge funds, credit rating agencies and mortgage brokers, and greater oversight of the complex financial instruments that contributed to the economic crisis. Broad new outlines of the administration’s agenda have begun to emerge in recent interviews with officials, in confirmation proceedings of senior appointees and in a recent report by an international committee led by Paul A. Volcker, a senior member of President Obama’s economic team. advertisement | A theme of that report, that many major…

AP - President Barack Obama’s pledge of bipartisan cooperation with Congress will be tested as he tries to fulfill a campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay and establish a new system for prosecuting suspected terrorists.

AP - It sounds like Dinara Safina might be a chip off the old family block after all.

PRINCE HARRY has separated from his girlfriend Chelsy Davy after a five-year relationship. Harry, 24, began intensive training to become an Army Air Corps helicopter pilot on Monday while Chelsy, 23, is…