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    Landon Donovan was left off the 29-man U.S. roster for a training camp ahead of a trio of World Cup qualifiers next month. But American coach Jurgen Klinsmann anticipates he will rejoin the team at some unspecified point.

  • Pop singer Beyonce attends the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute benefit in New York on Monday, May 6, 2013. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

    Beyonce: Singer cancels Belgium show under doctor's orders

    Beyonce is canceling her Tuesday concert in Belgium because of dehydration and exhaustion.

  • Prosecutor spokesperson Jean-Marc Meilleur addresses the media in Brussels, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Police carried out a series of raids in Belgium and detained 31 people in three countries in connection with a spectacular $50 million diamond heist pulled off with apparent clockwork precision at Brussels Airport, a Belgian prosecutor said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

    Police detain 31 people in connection to $50 million diamond heist

    Police claimed a major breakthrough Wednesday after detaining 31 people in connection with a $50 million diamond heist that happened three months ago at Brussels Airport.

  • ** FILE ** Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard of Mechelen-Brussels gestures as he addresses the media at a media conference in Brussels on Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

    Belgian archbishop prays while topless activists douse him with water

    The head of the Catholic Church in Belgium kept his head bowed calmly in prayer as topless female activists hurled insults and doused him with water Tuesday at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels.

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    Embassy Row: America's interests

    The U.S. ambassador in London lectured British voters this week on what he says is their responsibility to keep the United Kingdom within the European Union, despite rising popular support for pulling out of the 27-nation federation.

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    One of Europe's largest music festivals will be crossing over into the United States, setting up a fairytale world with electronic dance beats for three days in Georgia.

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    Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher near Geneva have announced they are confident that the new subatomic particle discovered last summer is a version of the long-sought Higgs boson. The particle bears key attributes of the so-called "God particle" that was theorized nearly a half-century ago as fundamental to the creation of the universe. It took thousands of scientists from around the world to hunt the particle in the atom-smasher operated by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

  • Hackers target Czech banks, affect online banking

    Hackers are targeting major commercial banks in the Czech Republic, bringing down their website and affecting their online banking.

  • EU fines Microsoft $733M for breaking browser pact

    The European Union has fined Microsoft (EURO)561 million ($733 million) for breaking a pledge to offer personal computer users a choice of Internet browsers when they install the company's flagship Windows operating system.

  • Rep. James McGovern condemns Russian trial of dead lawyer

    A decision by Russian authorities to go ahead with the trial of a dead lawyer is yet another example of the "endless vendetta" against him, a U.S. congressman said Monday.

  • Hasier Arraiz, front, president of the new pro independence Basque party, Sortu, gestures during the inaugural congress, in Pamplona northern Spain on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. Sortu was launched formally Saturday, eight months after the Constitutional Court said Sortu could come into existence because it was different to the outlawed Batasuna. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

    Europe deals with independence movements in Britain, Belgium, Spain

    Scotland, Flanders and Catalonia. Independence movements in these regions of Britain, Belgium and Spain are raising concerns about the stability of a fractious European Union trying to forge closer ties to prevent economic catastrophe.

  • Rain postpones singles matches at Delray Beach

    Rain postponed most of the singles matches at the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships on Wednesday.

  • ** FILE ** In this Wednesday, May 24, 2006, file photo, tourists take a hot air balloon tour over Luxor, Egypt. (AP Photo/Mohammed Anan, File)

    Hot air balloon crash in Egypt kills 19

    At least 19 have been reported killed after the hot air balloon they were riding crashed near Luxor, one of Egypt's top tourist destinations, according to a report from a security official.

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