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Workers at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility have discovered a leak of 45 metric tons of radioactive water, operator Tokyo Electric Power Company said in a statement Monday.

Syria agreed Monday to Arab League demands that it allow observers into the country, but on the condition that the group immediately drop sanctions and agree to amendments that league officials have previously rejected.

Eight Ferraris, three Mercedes-Benz cars and a Lamborghini crashed in a massive — and very expensive — 14-vehicle accident in southwestern Japan.

Leaders meet in Paris on Monday as the European Union considers a drastic overhaul of its powers to keep its common currency afloat.

U.S. President Barack Obama called Pakistan's president Sunday to express condolences over the airstrike that killed 24 soldiers near the Afghanistan border more than a week ago, the White House said in a statement.

A U.S. drone was shot down in eastern Iran, state media reported Sunday, citing a military source.

Brazilians are mourning the death of one its most iconic soccer players and political activists, Socrates, who died Sunday of septic shock due to an intestinal infection, Brazil's official news agency reported.

The results of weekend parliamentary elections appeared to eat away at support for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, slimming his party's majority and clout.

An explosion occurred early Sunday near the British embassy in the Bahraini capital, an embassy spokesman said.

While Russian police arrested 170 opposition protesters in two cities, voters in the country's parliamentary election appeared to eat away at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's support in Sunday's elections, slimming down his party's p…