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  • News Corp Exec Brooks Quits

    By Anthony Faiola

    LONDON — Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the News of the World tabloid, resigned Friday as head of the British newspaper division of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire , saying she had become a focal...

  • Judge Declares Mistrial in Clemens Case

    By JESSE J. HOLLAN

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge declared a mistrial Thursday in baseball star Roger Clemens' perjury trial after prosecutors showed to jurors evidence that he had ruled would be out of bounds in the case...

  • Ailing Chavez Faces Dire Problems

    By FABIOLA SANCHEZ

    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Even before President Hugo Chavez announced he was fighting cancer, Venezuela was one of Latin America's most troubled nations. The country of 28 million people had been...

  • Strauss-Kahn Case Marks Cultural Shift

    By MICHAEL BIRNBAUM, The Washington Post

    PARIS — Even if the sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is faltering, its repercussions in France are not. Many Parisians said Saturday that the allegations would...

  • Strauss-Kahn Sexual Assault Case in Limbo

    By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Howard Schneider, The Washington Post

    Attorneys for Dominique Strauss-Kahn will ask a court to reduce the conditions of his bail after New York City prosecutors raised serious concerns about the hotel chambermaid who accused the former...