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Italy's Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti is still struggling to form a Cabinet as Italian 10-year bonds yields rose back over seven per cent on Tuesday morning.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said that he will step down within 90 days of an agreement with the regional Gulf Cooperation Council

Occupy Wall Street protesters look set on abandoning their old camp at Zuccotti Park after being ‘temporarily’ evicted for sanitation purposes in favour of a new camp at Foley Square.

The Associated Press reports that at least 50 people have been killed in the latest surge of violence in the Assad regime's crackdown on protesters.

Police have used pepper spray on protesters at ‘Occupy Wall Street’ in order to remove them from the site after it was dubbed unhygienic by the park owners.

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad called on Palestinians to agree on a new premier to replace him a future new unity government, a Hamas/Fatah unity deal seem closer.

GOP Frontrunner Herman Cain in Embarrassing Video Leak.

The police began evicting the Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York this morning at around 2am local time, barring the press from entry and threatening to remove press passes should anyone come close.

The pressure on President Bashar al-Assad continued to mount Monday after Jordan's King Abdullah became the first Arab leader to call for the Syrian leader to step down.

Muslim community leaders are openly teaching people how to identify police informants, and briefing them on their legal rights, reports the Associated Press.

Brigade General Hassan Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile programme, was killed, along with 16 other Revolutionary guards in an explosion at a military base Saturday.

Despite trying to keep a low profile, Dominique Strass-Kahn continues to be in the spotlight after the ex-IMF chief was hit by a new scandal, with sources saying it is all becoming too much for his wife, Anne Sinclair.

Tensions between the Arab states of the Gulf region reached a new high this week-end as Bahrain claimed it had broken up a terrorist group which had allegedly planned a series of attacks on the ministry, the Saudi embassy in Manama and the causeway which links the archipelago state to Saudi Arabia.

The Taliban in Afghanistan have said they have obtained a government security plan for the Loya Jirga, or the grand assembly of leaders, due to open in Kabul this week.

Rival militia groups continued to clash over the weekend outside of Tripoli and at least seven fighters have been killed in one of the most violent clash since the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the end of the Libyan conflict.

Three French aid workers have been released by Yemeni militants after being held for six months, say officials.

Former EU Commissioner Mario Monti will begin consultations to form a new government of technocrats that could be sworn by Wednesday as Italy is expected to push through a bond sale on Monday of up to of 5-year bonds worth three billion euros.

As the turmoil in the eurozone continues unabated, the British job market is due to suffer a "slow, painful contraction" in the coming months as firms are in no mood to hire new staff, a new study has warned.

The U.S. seems to be wary about the security arrangements for the 2102 London Olympics in the wake of the riots in some of the English counties early this year and also the arrests made at the Games site.

Former prime minister Tony Blair has urged eurozone leaders to rally round to arrest the collapse of euro which, he said, would have a catastrophic impact on the EU.

An explosion has rocked Xi'an , capital of north-west China's Shaanxi province, according to reports. Around seven people were killed and 19 others injured, AFP has reported.

A Channel 4 documentary that is believed to expose hidden truths about the royal family, has incurred the Queen's wrath. According to the documentary, the royal family had systematically shunned the Queen's first cousins, Nerissa and Katherine Bowes Lyon, as they were born with mental disabilities.

The Arab League is holding its emergency meeting on Syria in Cairo Saturday amid intense speculation about the country’s continued membership in the group.

A new Greek Prime Minister has finally been sworn in, nearly a week since the government fell apart over disagreements surrounding the Euro crisis.

Israel has accelerated the installation of anti-missile defences on its airliners, as officials fear a potential attack by militants using weapons looted in Libya after the fall of the Gaddafi regime, it was reported.

A mother and daughter were stoned and shot dead on Friday in their home in Ghazni province eastern Afghanistan, after a group of armed men attacked them, security officials said.

U.S. Army sergeant who killed three unarmed Afghan civilians and cut fingers off the corpses as trophies has been jailed for life.

It is time Karl Marx's classic opening statement of the Communist Manifesto is reworded into something on the lines of: "A spectre is haunting Europe ­- the spectre of a double dip. All the powers of Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre."

The Italian Senate has approved the austerity law, a package of measures designed to avoid a Eurozone breakdown. The law should get final approval by the lower house at the weekend, leaving the way for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to step down. The senate voted by 156 to 12 in favour of the austerity package.