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Police investigators took Anders Behring Breivik, accused of killing dozens of people at a youth retreat last month in Norway, back to Utoya island to help reconstruct the shooting rampage, authorities said.

The flow of oil leaking from a North Sea oil platform east of Aberdeen, Scotland, has been “greatly reduced,” and no oil is expected to reach land, the British Department of Energy and Climate Change and a Shell official said Monday.

The flow of oil leaking from a North Sea oil platform east of Aberdeen, Scotland, has been “greatly reduced,” and no oil is expected to reach land, the British Department of Energy and Climate Change and a Shell official said Monday.

The head of the World Bank warned Sunday that many key market players have lost confidence in recent weeks, pushing the fragile global economy into a “new danger zone.”

Rebels in Libya are fighting Moammar Gadhafi’s forces for control of the center of the country’s third-largest city and have cut a critical supply line to the west, a rebel spokesman claimed Sunday.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday made her first political trip outside the main city since her release from house arrest last year.

Argentines will vote Sunday in the country’s first-ever presidential primary, expected to serve as a litmus test of the popularity of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

At least five gunmen — strapped with explosives-laden vests — stormed a provincial governor’s compound in central eastern Afghanistan Sunday, officials said.