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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek lawmakers approved the country's 2013 austerity budget early Monday, an essential step in Greece's efforts to persuade its international creditors to unblock a vital rescue loan installment without which the country will go bankrupt.

The budget passed by a 167-128 vote in the 300-member Parliament. It came days after a separate bill of deep spending cuts and tax hikes for the next two years squeaked through with a narrow majority following severe disagreements among the three parties in the governing coalition.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras...

NEW YORK (AP) — A return to 1970s-era gas rationing seemed to help with hourslong gas station lines that formed after Superstorm Sandy, but it didn't end a fuel-gauge fixation that suddenly has become a way of life for drivers in the nation's largest city.

With police monitoring lines, motorists in New York City and Long Island on Friday began dealing with a new piece of fallout from the monster storm: odd-even gas rationing.

"Even? Odd? Whatever it is, I didn't have the right one," said Joe Standart, a 62-year-old artist, whose car was ordered off a Manhattan gas station...

(NewsPoint) – 84,810 people have backed a petition on Change.org urging politicians around the world to nominate Malala Yousafzai for the Nobel Peace Prize (at the time of writing). The call comes ahead of this Saturday’s 'Global Day of Action' for Malala marking one month since her shooting .

In the UK people have joined Shahida Choudhary to call on William Hague, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband to write to the Nobel committee recommending Malala for the prestigious award.

Shahida said: “Malala doesn’t just represent one young woman, she speaks out for all those...

Just over one week after one of the largest and most devastating Atlantic hurricanes on record hit north-east America, a snow storm has one again caused significant damage and left thousands without power or heat.

The so-called 'nor'easter' is a macro-scale storm along the East Coast of the United States and Atlantic Canada; it gets its name from the direction the wind is coming from. Nor'easters can cause hurricane-like conditions with coastal flooding and blizzards.

(NewsPoint) - Hitting New York City on Wednesday night repair work following Sandy was put on hold as...