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Hagel goes to Israel bearing gifts of radar and Ospreys

The US will give Israel advanced radar systems, more powerful missiles, and aircraft never before sold outside the US. Together, they could diminish Israel's sense of threat from Iran.

Chapter & Verse World Book Night: the most popular books and which Broadway show is getting involved

Germany fines Google 140,000 euros for Street View data breach

London marathon message: 'Runners are stronger than bombers'

The Monitor's View The right way to put more women in boardrooms

Livable super-Earths? Two candidates among Kepler's latest finds.

Russia aims to set stern example with NGO prosecution

Can Pakistan drive the Taliban out of its tribal belt?

Southern Europe digs in against further austerity, as IMF calls for relief

Energy Voices Has clean energy hit a plateau?

In the City of Bikes

Italians move northward to trade 'la dolce vita' for 'das süsse Leben'

Chapter & Verse World Book Night US: Washington, Michigan, and New York attract the most volunteers

Turkish pianist's Twitter barbs land him conviction for insulting Islam

Energy Voices In Germany, a building that aims to run on algae

Auf wiedersehen, euro? New anti-euro party forms in Germany

Redoine Faid's brazen escape and other notorious prison breaks

In Gear Ford Motor Company, GM to collaborate on new transmissions

Aurora Borealis tonight? Dazzling northern lights forecast

Global News Blog Irish bank forges in the smithy of its soul a botched James Joyce coin

The Monitor's View Is an end to war-time rape at a tipping point?

British Euroskeptics claim Thatcher, but was she in their camp? (+video)

Friend or frenemy? For China, key issue is how US really views it

Story changes? Diplomat now said to be on foot when killed in Afghanistan (+video)

Terrorism & Security Foreign ministers struggle to find common ground on Syrian conflict (+video)