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LONDON (AFP) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Britain could reduce its nuclear arsenal as part of a global disarmament deal to persuade Iran and North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions, reports said.

TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina - How many times can you bury your child without going mad?

LONDON (AFP) - London-based miner Anglo American is set to name a new chairman in a bid to reassure shareholders of its strong future after rejecting a merger offer from rival Xstrata, media reports said.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A badger in Germany got so drunk on over-ripe cherries it staggered into the middle of a road and refused to budge, police said on Wednesday.

L'AQUILA, Italy - The chasm between rich and poor on how to address climate change burst into the open at the G-8 summit Thursday, showing how difficult it will be to persuade the world to make lifestyle and economic sacrifices needed to save the planet from global warming.

L'AQUILA, Italy - Michelle Obama and other first spouses toured the center of L'Aquila on Thursday to see the destruction wrought by an earthquake in the Italian city hosting world leaders for the Group of Eight summit this week.

LONDON - The tricks of the trade of Britain's rambunctious tabloid press came under scrutiny Thursday, after a newspaper reported that a tabloid owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch had illegally hacked into the mobile phones of hundreds of celebrities and politicians.

LONDON (AFP) - A British diplomat posted to Russia has resigned, the Foreign Office said Thursday, as a newspaper alleged that a video appeared on the Internet of him apparently in bed with two prostitutes.

LONDON (AFP) - Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez on Thursday saluted skipper Steven Gerrard's contract extension, claiming it would serve to bolster the team's renewed push for silverware.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jury deliberations can sometimes be contentious, but in a case in New York one juror accused another of threatening to cut off his finger.

MOSCOW - Revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin may be losing another round in the fight over Russia's history.

PARIS - A Paris hospital says a 12-year-old girl who was the only known survivor of the Yemenia Airways flight that crashed in the Indian Ocean has undergone facial surgery.

EISENACH, Germany - Richard Wagner is the classical composer most associated with the Nazis, but Johann Sebastian Bach was the one the party dubbed "the most German of Germans" and whose music was played at rallies to stir up nationalist zeal.

L'AQUILA, Italy - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday he will soon propose sweeping changes to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that would require states suspected of seeking to build nuclear weapons to prove that they are not.

DUBLIN - Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say, has the silhouette of the Virgin Mary.

L'AQUILA, Italy - President Barack Obama says the global recession makes it harder to strike an international climate agreement but that leaders must "fight the temptation toward cynicism" and press forward.

STOCKHOLM - Sweden will extradite a man accused of taking part in mass slaughter in Rwanda to his homeland, marking the first time an EU nation has sent back a suspect to face charges in the 1994 genocide, officials said Thursday.

LONDON - European stock markets trimmed gains Thursday after Wall Street failed to react positively to a smaller than expected loss by aluminum company Alcoa Inc. Investors clearly want more evidence before subscribing to the view that businesses may have seen off the worst of the recession.