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A private commercial ship has rushed to help 28 crew members aboard a crippled freighter being tossed by waves in the stormy North Pacific.
The death toll from winter storms across Europe has risen to more than 50.
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has pleaded not guilty, denying all the graft charges against him in the first case of its kind in the history of the Jewish state.
Armed Taliban militants wearing suicide vests have stormed a building in an Afghan provincial capital, sparking a gun battle with police, officials said.
Lawyers for Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi have argued an appeal against her extended house arrest sentence at the country's supreme court.
President Barack Obama's top domestic goal, remaking US healthcare, has cleared a key Senate hurdle with no room to spare and seemed on track to pass by his self-imposed Christmas deadline.
Polish police said early they have recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen from the site of the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland and arrested the alleged thieves.
Eurostar train services between Britain and Europe have been suspended for a third straight day due to the freezing weather.
A Dutch teenager who went missing after child welfare authorities thwarted her attempt to become the youngest person to sail singlehanded round the world has been found in the Dutch Antilles.
Eurostar trains have been cancelled indefinitely, as engineers investigate the mystery behind a glitch that left thousands stranded for hours in the darkened tunnel running under the English Channel.