BBC | Europe worries dent stock markets

European and Asian stock markets have fallen sharply with investors worrying over the growing level of financial turmoil in Europe.

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CNN | World stocks get hit

Times | Markets tumble as banking fears spread across Europe

BBC | Iceland unveils bank rescue bid

Iceland has announced part of a plan to hammer out a financial package to shore up its troubled banking sector.

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Fox | Oil Falls Below $90 as Financial Turmoil Spreads

SINGAPORE —  Oil prices have fallen below $90 a barrel on worries that the spreading financial crisis will exacerbate a global economic slowdown and cut demand for crude oil.

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Fox | Attacks Get Personal as Campaign Calendar Ticks Down to Election Day

Sarah Palin on Sunday defended her charge against Barack Obama that he is “palling around with terrorists,” upping the ante in the latest go-around with the Democratic presidential candidate over his ties to questionable characters.

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Telegraph | Republicans ask officials to probe Barack Obama ‘illegal contributions’

Times | OJ Simpson jury says verdict was not payback

The jury in the O.J. Simpson kidnapping case have taken the unusual step of speaking out, giving a press conference to deny their guilty verdict was to punish the former American football star for ‘past wrongs’.

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Times | Mugabe’s marauders seize their last chance to grab white farms

It was only days after Zimbabwe’s leaders signed the power-sharing deal intended to restore the rule of law when Kevin Cooke was called to the gate of the electrified security fence around his farmstead.

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Telegraph | Somali pirates: Islamist insurgents demand weapons from hijacked ship

Islamist insurgents have demanded to be given some of the weapons aboard a hijacked Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks but the pirates holding it have refused, a local official has said.

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Telegraph | Nobody is safe from the long arm of EU law

Here is something the Government told us would never happen. When Britain signed up to the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) six years ago, critics pointed out that an individual could be extradited to another EU state to face prosecution for something that is not a crime in Britain and had not even been committed in the requesting country. Ministers dismissed such concerns as fanciful, but it has come to pass.

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