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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's political class competed to "bow and scrape" before media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Tuesday, in comments aimed at setting his Liberal Democrats apart from the country's two other main parties. The Lib Dems, Britain's third-largest party, has had relatively few dealings with Murdoch and his News Corp media empire, which paid them little attention until they came to power in 2010 as part of a coalition government. ...

Pakistan on Tuesday declared dead 140 people buried alive by a huge avalanche in a disputed part of the Himalayas more than seven weeks ago.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares rose on bargain hunting on Tuesday but the euro eased, reflecting investor nervousness as a surge in Spanish borrowing costs added to simmering worries about Europe's debt restructuring challenges. European shares were also likely to rise, with spreadbetters predicting major European markets would open as much as 0.5 percent higher. U.S. stock futures were up 0.8 percent. The euro was sluggish, inching down 0.1 percent to $1.2535, just above its 2-month low of $1. ...

A huge Aus$6.4 billion (US$6.3 billion) coal mine in Australia's Galilee Basin owned by Indian infrastructure giant GVK and the world's richest woman Gina Rinehart Tuesday won conditional approval.

NEW YORK/BANGALORE (Reuters) - The crippled law firm Dewey & Leboeuf LLP filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday night and will seek approval to liquidate its business after failing to find a merger partner, marking the biggest collapse of a law firm in U.S. history. Once one of the largest law firms in the U.S., Dewey has been hit by the loss of the vast majority of its roughly 300 partners to other firms amid concerns about compensation and a heavy debt load. ...

"Maxed out on the medications" is how Bill Ezzell describes his struggle with blood pressure. It's dangerously high even though the North Carolina man swallows six different drugs a day.

President Barack Obama honored the nation's military heroes in a pair of Memorial Day ceremonies, vowing to protect veterans' benefits in an election year marked by the nation's transition from war.