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President of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet listens to a journalist's question during a news conference after a council meeting in Frankfurt, central Germany, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. The European Central Bank decided to keep the main interest rate unchanged at 1.5 percent. (AP Photo/dapd, Mario Vedder) (AP)

Short-selling banned in 4 European countries

Angela Charlton, Greg Keller

Sarkozy lashes at U.S., defends Libya campaign

Slobodan Lekic, Angela Charlton

Russian President Federation Dmitry Medvedev, left, and President Barack Obama are greeted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy as they arrive at the G8 Summit, in Deauville, France, Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Russia offers to mediate Gadhafi’s exit

Angela Charlton

International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, left, is seen through a window as he is checked into Municipal Court, Monday, May 16, 2011 in New York. Strauss-Kahn is accused of sexually assaulting a maid in his hotel room in New York City. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) (AP)

Frenchwoman alleges 2002 assault by Strauss-Kahn

Jennifer Peltz, Angela Charlton

In this photograph made available by the Ministry of Defence, the Royal Air Force VC10 and Tristar air-to-air refuelling aircraft, from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England, which supported overnight operations against targets in Libya, Saturday, March 19, 2011. They accompanied RAF Tornado GR4 fast jets from RAF Marham that struck Libyans air defences, in the longest strike mission since the Black Buck operations during the Falklands conflict. British Prime Minister Cameron said that launching a military action against Libya is "necessary, legal and right." Speaking after chairing an emergency meeting with senior government officials in his office in Downing Street, the leader said his thoughts are with British service personnel who are risking their lives to save others. (AP Photo/SAC Neil Chapman, MOD) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Europe, not US, pushed for military force in Libya

Angela Charlton

In this image made off Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, smoke ascends from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP Photo/NTV/NNN Japan) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Japan’s blasts cast doubt on nuclear renaissance

Angela Charlton, John Heilprin

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2011 file photo, British fashion designer John Galliano appears at the end of his men's fall-winter 2011/2012 fashion collection presented in Paris. Officials say Dior designer John Galliano was briefly detained after a spat in a Paris restaurant. An official with the Paris prosecutor's office says a couple in the restaurant accused Galliano of making anti-Semitic insults. A police official said Friday, Feb. 25, 2011 that Galliano also exchanged slaps with the couple. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File) (AP)

Dior suspends designer Galliano after cafe spat

Angela Charlton

Picasso, Matisse among paintings stolen in heist

Angela Charlton

Sarkozy urges new world finance rules in U.S. speech

Angela Charlton, Verena Dobnik

French left beats Sarkozy’s party in regional vote

Angela Charlton