Nigerian police say they have arrested a senior commander of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the troubled northern city of Kano.

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‘Militant leader’ held in Nigeria

Doug O’Neill’s Kentucky Derby victory places him — and his troubled record — center stage at a time when thoroughbred racing faces calls for federal regulation.

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MADRID — Like many of the immigrants who flocked to Spain not long ago, Klever Cordova was enticed by the prospect of easy employment and easy credit — the chance to leave behind the troubled economy of his native Ecuador and become a homeowner in a booming euro-zone country. Read full article > >

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Spain’s lingering bank crisis weighs on economic recovery

Marianne Faithfull, the singer and former muse of Mick Jagger, uses an art exhibition at the Tate Liverpool gallery to confront her troubled past.

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Faithfull’s troubled past on show

As “ Justified ” returns, the troubled (but hot!) Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) is still in pain from a gunshot wound he got in last season’s bloody shootout with the drug-running Bennett clan. We find Raylan back at the firing range, glowering as he watches his shots go wildly askew. Read full article > >

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‘Justified’: Missing its mark?

BEIRUT — A team of Arab League monitors began its second day of work Wednesday in the troubled Syrian city of Homs, amid shooting in the flashpoint Baba Amr neighborhood and growing questions about the team’s methods and credibility. The delegation is tasked with observing whether Syrian authorities are upholding an agreement to withdraw troops from cities, free political prisoners and end the use of deadly force to quell a nine-month uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Read full article > >

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Arab monitors work in Syria amid violence and controversy

HMV considers selling its live music division as the troubled music retailer reports a further slump in sales and profits.

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HMV ‘may sell’ live music section

Lawyers defending a US soldier accused of handing government secrets to Wikileaks say his supervisors failed to recognise his troubled emotional state.

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Army ‘failed’ in Wikileaks case

BRUSSELS — More than half of the money loaned to Greece so far by the International Monetary Fund and European nations has gone to repay bondholders, a transfer of billions of dollars from taxpayers around the world to European banks and pension funds that invested in the troubled Mediterranean nation. Read full article > >

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Most Greek bailout money has gone to pay off bondholders

Edinburgh City Council’s transport convener says he did not have the right skills to “properly scrutinise” the troubled tram project.

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Trams team ‘did not have skills’

France, Belgium and Luxembourg look to secure the future of the troubled bank Dexia with a massive bailout, following fears it could go bankrupt.

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Embattled Dexia gets huge bailout

How will Rick Perry do in tonight’s presidential debate? Mitt Romney likes to call Perry a “ career politician ” — which means he has been in plenty of opportunities to debate during his long political career.  According to the Austin American-Statesman , he has had five debates as Texas governor and “in each case [Perry] has entered and exited the favorite — ‘no knockout blows’ is a line often used in next-day news coverage.”     The best way to preview how Perry might perform tonight is to watch some of the highlights of his two most recent debates, which took place last year during the 2010 Republican gubernatorial primary. (Perry did not debate his eventual Democratic opponent in the general election.)  I’ve posted the videos below.  Because these debates are so recent, many of the issues that Perry’s Republican opponents raise here are the same ones his Republican opponents might raise tonight — including his jobs record in Texas; his position on immigration and border security; his governor’s enterprise fund; and allegations that he raised taxes and supported the Troubled Assets Relief Program. Perry answers these charges and levels a few of his own.  Read full article > >

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Can Perry debate? Watch some clips from his past.

Sudan has carried out another air strike on a village in the troubled western region of Darfur, according to the UN.

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Sudan jets ‘bomb Darfur village’

No hurry, guys. TEPCO, the company that owns the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, says it’s still working out a plan for how to deal with radiation at the plant, two days after announcing that the level of crisis was equivalent to the…

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TEPCO Still Mulling Radiation Plan

There’s no rest for weary workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex. After plugging a leak of radioactive water, workers are now scrambling to prevent a potential hydrogen explosion at the troubled plant, which was slammed by a tsunami and…

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Japan Races to Prevent Reactor Explosion