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No evidence found of Al Qaeda role in Libya attack

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 04:50 PM PDT

U.S. intelligence agencies and witnesses paint a picture of an assault carried out with little planning at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi.

WASHINGTON — The assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi last month appears to have been an opportunistic attack rather than a long-planned operation, and intelligence agencies have found no evidence that it was ordered by Al Qaeda, according to U.S. officials and witnesses interviewed in Libya.

Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, shot by Taliban, able to stand

Posted: 20 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Doctors at a British hospital say Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai, targeted because she stood up for education for girls, is improving but fighting an infection.

LONDON — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education-rights campaigner who was shot in the head by the Taliban, has been able to stand for the first time since the attack and is communicating by writing, a British hospital official said Friday.

European Union bank oversight startup to be slow

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 05:12 PM PDT

An EU move to appoint a single banking supervisor for the 17-nation Eurozone is delayed, reflecting the difficulty of getting agreement on a unified plan for addressing the debt crisis.

LONDON — European leaders took a step forward Friday in their effort to put all of the Eurozone's banks under central oversight but sketched out a time frame that suggests the new system will not be up and running until months after its anticipated start date.