Some banks, using credit-default swaps, are more hedged than others against the possibility of a debt cascade in Europe.

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DealBook: U.S. Banks Tally Their Exposure to Europe’s Debt Maelstrom

Mitt Romney raised the possibility that Newt Gingrich might have broken laws in representing corporate interests.

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The Caucus: In New Attacks, Romney Calls Gingrich ‘Erratic’

A statutory register of Parliamentary lobbyists should be created with the possibility of tough penalties for those who breach the rules the government proposes.

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Rogue lobbyists ‘could face jail’

Both Nick Clegg and David Cameron say they want to do more to stop tax avoidance by big companies, with the possibility of action in the Budget.

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Action pledged on tax avoidance

BAGHDAD — The political crisis that has erupted in Iraq widened Tuesday after the country’s Sunni vice president strongly denied terrorism charges leveled against him, alleging that three of his bodyguards gave false confessions after interrogations by Shiite-controlled security forces. Tariq al-Hashimi said he was ready to stand trial, but only in the region to which he has fled: the semiautonomous region of Kurdistan. His statement raised the possibility of the Kurds being dragged into the political battle that has broken out between Shiite and Sunni factions of the country’s central government. Read full article > >

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Iraqi vice president denies involvement in terrorism

In announcing the decision, government officials indicated that the possibility of huge fines for Canada’s failure to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets had played a role.

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Canada Leaving Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change

Ryanair’s announcement about the possibility of in-flight pornography may seem radical, but passengers have already been indulging in racy content on their digital devices.

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Noticed: Pornography on Airplanes, Where You Can’t Look Away

BEIRUT — Syria continued to defy mounting international pressure to halt attacks on civilian protesters Friday as Turkey and France suggested they are not ruling out the possibility of military intervention if the violence continues to escalate. Human rights groups and activists said Syrian security forces killed at least 17 protesters across the country after tens of thousands of people poured into the streets yet again after Friday prayers to demand the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. Read full article > >

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Defiant Syria kills more civilian protesters

For two months now, 12 members of Congress have sat in a windowless room stocked with granola bars and high-quality coffee, trying to remember how Congress is supposed to work. So far, no luck. And time is running short. The job of the congressional “supercommittee” — charged with cutting $1.2 trillion from the country’s deficit — is to rekindle the possibility of the great big bipartisan deal, made by the big wheels in Congress. Read full article > >

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Can anyone here make a deal?

Scientists have opened up the possibility of one day using cancer patients’ own skin to fight their tumours.

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Skin transformed for cancer fight

The Supreme Court said Monday that it will decide whether it is unconstitutional to sentence juveniles who kill to life in prison without the chance of parole, a next step after the court’s recent rulings that children may not be eligible for the same tough sentences as adults. The justices ruled in 2005 that juveniles may not be executed for their crimes. In 2010, they said that teenagers may not be locked up for life without the possibility of parole for crimes other than homicide. Read full article > >

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Supreme Court to consider whether juveniles who kill must receive possibility of parole

A commission of inquiry will examine Qaddafi’s death while in custody. But Libya’s new leaders raise the possibility that Qaddafi loyalists killed him so he would not talk.

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Libya’s Interim Leaders to Investigate Qaddafi Killing

Two weeks ago, the FBI arrested Rezwan Ferdaus and accused the 26-year-old Massachusetts man of planning to fly an explosives-laden model airplane into the U.S. Capitol. The plot’s revelation sparked debate over the FBI’s tactics in investigating Muslims and drew attention to the possibility that someone could use remote-controlled aircraft to carry out a terrorist attack. Read full article > >

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Congress still may be unprepared for a terrorist strike

Defense attorneys for Brittany Norwood, the woman charged with killing a co-worker in a Bethesda yoga shop, are likely to assert that their client is not criminally responsible because of mental illness, according to a filing in Montgomery County Circuit Court. The lawyers also asked a judge to postpone Norwood’s October trial so they can further investigate her medical, social and educational background. Norwood, 29, is charged with first-degree murder in the March killing of Jayna Murray, 30, inside Lululemon Athletica in downtown Bethesda. Prosecutors have said they will seek a sentence of life without the possibility of parole if Norwood is convicted. Read full article > >

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Brittany Norwood likely to plead insanity in Lululemon slaying, court filing shows

England move into a 156-run lead after the fourth day of the second Test against Sri Lanka, setting up the possibility of a victory push on Tuesday.

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England build lead over Sri Lanka