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Time.com - The plucky singing Scot lost out to a dance troupe, when viewers used Saturday’s final to vote in a new image for Britain

AFP - Indian students rallied in Melbourne on Sunday as Australia scrambled to contain outrage over a wave of attacks that has seen it labelled racist and strained diplomatic relations with New Delhi.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama has a sweeping goal for his speech Thursday in Cairo, Egypt: to begin remaking the dynamic between the United States and Muslims abroad.

Time.com - The U.S. will never get inside North Korea to the point that we can rely on an international monitoring system, which means we have to change our approach in the nuclear standoff

Reuters - Germany heaved a sigh of relief on Saturday over a deal with Canadian auto parts group Magna, General Motors and the U.S. government to save carmaker Opel from the imminent bankruptcy of its U.S. parent.

AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday backed away from a direct debate with prominent critics a day after he invited Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and other Latin American intellectuals to join him on live television this weekend.

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, May 29 (OneWorld.net) - “Invisible” demonstrators in London protested Wednesday the Indian government’s decision to permit a British company to mine the Dongria Kondh tribe’s sacred mountain and source of livelihood in Orissa, India.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama Thursday ratcheted up what might be America’s toughest bargaining position with Israel in a generation, demanding anew that Israel stop expanding its settlements in the disputed West Bank as a key step toward making peace with its Arab neighbors.

The Christian Science Monitor - Short of gaining independence, the Catalan flag will probably never again wave en masse as it did throughout Spain and in many nations worldwide Wednesday night.

Reuters - Germany heaved a sigh of relief on Saturday over a deal with Canadian auto parts group Magna, General Motors and the U.S. government to save carmaker Opel from the imminent bankruptcy of its U.S. parent.