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  • Dutch police: 3 arrested in high-priced art heist

    Romanian authorities have arrested three suspects in last year's multimillion-dollar art heist from a Netherlands art gallery, Dutch police said Tuesday. But the paintings, by artists including Picasso, Matisse and Monet, have not been recovered.


  • Dutch police say 3 held in Romania in art heist

    Dutch police say authorities in Romania have arrested three suspects in a multimillion euro (dollar) art heist from a Rotterdam gallery last October.


  • Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the new head of the eurozone's finance ministers, said in Brussels, "Restoring further trust in the euro and building economic prospectives for the countries, that's the main task at hand." (Associated Press)

    Eurogroup's new chief turns to Cyprus' debt

    A Dutch finance minister took over Monday as head of the eurogroup, the group of the 17 eurozone finance ministers, giving him one of the top jobs in Europe's battle to end its financial crisis.


  • Free Syrian Army fighters hold their weapons during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. The revolt against President Bashar Assad began in March 2011 with peaceful protests but morphed into a civil war that has killed more than 60,000 people, according to a recent United Nations recent estimate. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)

    Syrian fighters fail to create interim government

    A council formed to create a united government that could rule in place of Syrian President Bashar Assad has lost credibility, as its second attempt at unifying the war-torn nation fell flat over the weekend.


  • **FILE** A photo from April 21, 2009, shows Tesco shopping bags being carried in London. (Associated Press)

    Irish beef giant corrals burgers tainted by horse meat

    An Irish meat processor recalled 10 million burgers Wednesday from supermarkets across Ireland and Britain amid fears that many could contain horse meat, a discovery that poses no danger to public health but threatens to undermine the beef business central to Ireland's rural economy.


  • Lothian

    Embassy Row: 'Sovereignty lost'

    Michael Lothian, a Conservative party member of Britain's House of Lords, sees a fundamental contradiction in the European Union's demand for more power, which is always masked under the benign-sounding rubric of "shared sovereignty" among the 27 member nations.


  • Serena Williams of the US lies on the court after falling during her first round match against Romania's Edina Gallovits-Hall at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

    Serena gets a scare in Australian opener

    Serena Williams frightened a few people, including herself. Defending champion Victoria Azarenka had a momentary lack of concentration. Two of the biggest names on the men's side at the Australian Open — Roger Federer and Andy Murray — had straight-set wins.


  • Theater festivals fire up a cold New York

    Listening to Supreme Court justices question lawyers doesn't sound like the stuff of great theater. But somehow it is _ in the hands of one of the city's most acclaimed companies.


  • Smartphone makers post wins on separate continents

    Apple and Samsung, the world's top two smartphone makers, each scored a significant victory on different continents that will allow both to keep selling their products without legal interference this holiday season.


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