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Eurozone finance ministers scrambled on Monday to hammer out a massive debt writedown deal for Greece as Athens and its bank creditors struggled to find a compromise to avoid a messy default. Ministers meet on Monday to finalise a pact to toughen budget discipline across the eurozone while Athens and its private lenders seek common ground to erase 1 . التفاصيل

About 200 Palestinians staged a demonstration on Saturday in the West Bank town of Ramallah against the exploratory talks with Israel being held in Jordan. Palestinian and Israeli negotiators have held three such meetings in Amman this month in a bid to restart direct peace talks which have been on ice since September 2010, but without any concrete . التفاصيل

Police found two human hands near where a couple of dog walkers found a gruesome severed head, on a hiking trail leading up to the iconic Hollywood sign, a spokesman said. The hands were found after police sealed off the area overnight following the discovery of the head, reported to be that of a male in his 40s, on a trail in the Hollywood hills. . التفاصيل

Real Madrid and Barcelona resume their historic rivalry on Wednesday when the two teams meet in the first leg of the quarter finals of the Spanish Cup. The scene is the Santiago Bernabeu before the return leg in Barcelona the following Wednesday and at stake is the first of three prizes the two giants are targeting this season. With the Champions L . التفاصيل

South Korea's Samsung Group said Tuesday it would invest a record 47.8 trillion won ($41.56 billion) this year and hire 26,000 new employees, also a record. The country's largest conglomerate said in a statement that despite the global economic uncertainty it wants to expand future growth engines and contribute to the national economy. This year's . التفاصيل

Nigerian unions have decided to call off street protests due to security concerns, but a week-old nationwide strike over soaring fuel prices will remain in place, a labour leader said on Monday. "We came to a conclusion that we will stay at home, that is stay off the streets, in order to make sure that we don't in the first instance endanger innocen . التفاصيل

President Nicolas Sarkozy, in his first public reaction to France's credit rating downgrade, vowed on Sunday to carry out more reforms to lead the country out of crisis. He said he would give an address to the nation at the end of the month and would tell the French about "the important decisions that need to be made without delay." "The crisis can . التفاصيل