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The Greek government denied Tuesday a local newspaper report that it will push for a referendum on the country's exit from the Eurozone as the country struggles against a debt crisis.

Romanian authorities have seized 15 truckloads of imported Dutch tulips, turning back three of these to suppliers in the Netherlands because the flowers were allegedly contaminated with dangerous bacteria.

Military recruiters are now accepting openly gay and lesbian applicants for enlistment in the U.S. armed forces, the Pentagon announced Tuesday, the day its policy banning soldiers with such sexual orientation ended.

Global financial overseer IMF warned Tuesday that the European Union and the United States face recession if the sovereign debt crisis is not resolved even as it predicted lower economic growth for the two countries.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. This idiomatic expression seems to be the labor policy of Amazon.com at its warehouse in Lehigh, Penn., if what workers there say is to be believed.

A trial started in Italy on Tuesday for seven scientists charged with manslaughter for apparently predicting that no major earthquake will hit L'Aquila one week after the deadly temblor struck the city in 2009.

A political party of IT professionals who promised free Wi-Fi and better data protection has won seats in Berlin's parliament by garnering more than the required five percent of votes in Sunday's elections.

New York City Police arrested four protesters Monday on Wall Street for wearing masks and one demonstrator, who jumped over a police barricade and resisted arrest.

Taiwan and U.S. defense officials have agreed to the upgrading of the former's fleet of F-16A/B jet fighters during talks at the U.S.-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference in Richmond, Virginia.

The European Union on Monday warned Turkey against threatening Cyprus over the latter's oil exploration drilling in disputed waters of the Mediterranean island republic.

U.S. President Barack Obama revealed a $3 trillion debt reduction plan on Monday that will see the wealthiest Americans taxed higher and government spending cut.

Six men and a woman are in police custody or are under house in Birmingham City on Monday on suspicion that they are plotting terror attacks in Britain.

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocked northeastern India and Nepal Sunday killing at least 18 people and injuring 100 others.

British surgeons have successfully separated Sudanese twins joined at the top of their heads, and the babies are now recovering well.

A 6-ton decommissioned NASA satellite the size of a bus is expected to fall to Earth on Friday, according to the U.S. space agency.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou cancelled his trip to the U.S. Saturday to chair a more pressing cabinet meeting Sunday on how the country can secure another bailout loan before the government runs out of cash next month.

Some 1,000 people marched towards the financial district of New York City on Saturday to protest what they call a financial system that favors the rich but state police prevented them from coming near the New York Stock Exchange and from taking over the iconic Wall Street Bull statue.

Siemens AG, Europe's largest engineering firm, will be totally out of the nuclear power station business, according to its top honcho Peter Loescher.

Facebook is postponing its initial public offering (IPO) planned in October or November and will go public late next year instead.

Poland and the U.S. have jointly announced that their ballistic missile defense agreement entered into force Thursday. The pact will see the deployment of land-based anti-missile batteries in the European country by 2018.

An explosion is suspected of causing a fire in a Norwegian cruise ship Thursday that killed two crew members, injured nine other seamen and forced the evacuation of 200 passengers in Norway's arctic city of Aalesund.

Australians who are neither male nor female can categorize their gender as "x" in their passports as the government has made the option official in the document.

Police in London arrested Thursday a UBS trader suspected of making unauthorized trading the previous day that caused Switzerland's largest bank to lose nearly $2 billion.

A Spanish court has reopened the case of a model who was allegedly raped by a Saudi prince in Ibiza, Spain in 2008 and the victim and her lawyer are asking the accused to provide his DNA sample to prove his innocence.

The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has ruled that Lufthansa pilots can fly a plane until the age of 65 after finding the airline's age restriction for such workers as constituting discrimination.

Poland's finance minister and the current chair of the rotating EU presidency warned Wednesday that the debt crisis could lead to war in the continent within a decade.

Environment and health authorities in New Mexico, USA recalled cantaloupes sold by local produce retailers on Tuesday after three people who consumed the fruit suspected to be contaminated with listeria died from listeriosis.

Passenger screening at U.S. airports will be revised in the next weeks and months with children getting less pat-downs and being allowed to keep their shoes on at security checkpoints, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told American senators on Tuesday.

The U.S. space agency disclosed Wednesday it is building a more powerful rocket capable of propelling astronauts to deep space missions, including going to asteroids and the planet Mars.