| BBC World | Top 10 | Syria artillery onslaught on Homs
The fiercest attack yet - involving heavy artillery - rocks the Syrian city of Homs, as the US closes its Damascus embassy over security concerns.
| Abbas to head interim government
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says he will head a unity government between Hamas and Fatah ahead of elections in the West Bank and Gaza.
| Contador given two-year drug ban
Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador is handed a two-year ban for a doping offence, and loses his 2010 Tour de France title.
| Romania spy chief 'to be new PM'
Romania's intelligence service chief Mihai Razvan Ungureanu is nominated as prime minister after Emil Bloc resigns amid widespread austerity protests.
| Mars cooperation near collapse
US space agency officials tell Europe it is highly unlikely that America will participate in joint missions to the Red Planet in 2016 and 2018.
| Radical cleric Qatada given bail
Radical cleric Abu Qatada is granted bail following a hearing at the UK's Special Immigration Appeals Commission.
| US tightens Iran bank sanctions
US President Barack Obama places new sanctions on Iran, blocking government assets held in the US, including the Iranian Central Bank.
| Deadly quake hits the Philippines
At least 15 people die and 29 are missing after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake strikes islands in the central Philippines.
| Deaths in Lahore factory collapse
An illegal medicine factory collapses in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least nine people, including women and children, officials say.
| Europe's big freeze tightens grip
The Arctic conditions sweeping Europe tighten their grip, with more deaths reported in Poland and Ukraine, taking the toll to well over 200.
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| | | Washington Post | Top 10 | Insurgent Violence Escalates in Iraq
Ambushes and kidnappings targeting Iraqis and foreigners have surged this month while the new government is caught up in power struggles over cabinet positions.
| Hu Jintao Tightens Party's Grip on Power
Chinese president is emerging as an unyielding leader determined to preserve the Communist Party's monopoly on power and willing to impose new limits on speech and other civil liberties to do it.
| U.N. Chief's Record Comes Under Fire
UNITED NATIONS -- In eight years as U.N. secretary general, Kofi Annan has come as close to superstardom as a diplomat can get -- lauded on the cover of Time, sharing the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize with the organization he leads and becoming known as the "secular pope" for his advocacy for peace and the poor.
| Iraqi Legislator Slain, Underscoring Danger
BAGHDAD, April 27 -- After one attempt on her life, Lamia Abed Khadouri Sakri went underground, moving out of the home she shared with a brother who was crippled in the attack, colleagues say.
| Iraqi Unit Brings Calm To a Rebel Stronghold
BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi platoon slips in darkness down a path from an abandoned rail yard to a cemetery in Haifa, a Baghdad district long notorious for insurgent ambushes.
| Iraq Has Government, Next Leader Declares
BAGHDAD, April 27 -- Prime Minister-designate Ibrahim Jafari ended three months of political paralysis Wednesday by announcing he had formed a government and would ask the newly elected National Assembly to approve it.
| Italy Opens Its Own Probe of Agent's Slaying in Iraq
ROME, April 27 -- Dissatisfied with the results of a joint investigation with the United States, Italy on Wednesday began its own probe into the March 4 killing of one of its intelligence agents by U.S. troops in Baghdad.
| Italian Premier Faces Uproar Over U.S. Probe of Iraq Slaying
ROME, April 26 -- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi fended off opposition attacks Tuesday over reports that the U.S. military had absolved its soldiers of any blame in killing an Italian intelligence agent who had just rescued a hostage in Iraq.
| In a Jail in Cuba Beat the Heart of a Poet
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Among the old leather volumes in the library of Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost is a black plastic binder full of rumpled letters he wrote, sent from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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