Greek public and transport services grind to a halt and clashes break out during a third strike over austerity measures.

UK forces are to hand security powers in the Afghan district of Musa Qala to US troops, the defence secretary says.

Rock legends Pink Floyd win a court battle with record label EMI over online royalties and how their music is sold online.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw meets with the mother of murdered toddler James Bulger to discuss the return to prison of one of his killers.

Sebastian Pinera is sworn in as president of quake-hit Chile, as a 7.2-magnitude aftershock strikes the centre of the country.

Three MPs and a peer plead not guilty in court to charges of false accounting in relation to their expenses claims.

The US trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in January as fewer foreign cars and less crude oil were imported.

First results from Iraq's election show PM Nouri Maliki's grouping leading in two southern provinces, the electoral body says.

Plans for a new high-speed rail line between London and Birmingham are announced by Transport Secretary Lord Adonis.

About 24,000 clients of HSBC's private banking operation in Switzerland had personal details stolen, the bank admits.

Afghanistan does not want other countries' "proxy wars" fought on its soil, President Hamid Karzai says in Islamabad.

A businessman is jailed for masterminding a scam which saw tens of millions of battery hen eggs sold as free-range or organic.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's investigation into Governor Paterson's contact with Sherr-una Booker is, reportedly, so far at least, coming up kind of short. Booker told investigators that she "didn't feel the governor threatened her," and other sources say that the conversations that Paterson's aides had with Booker "were too vague to nail down a witness tampering case." And one other thing assisting Paterson: his blindness, finally! Since he doesn't use e-mail (or texting, for that matter), there are no records of what Paterson said to Booker — only witness recollections, which aren't as helpful for nailing down any explicit threats that may have been made to Booker. Some people thought Paterson's blindness was a hindrance to his ability to govern, but who knows, it may turn out to be the thing that keeps him in office.

Paterson scandal: 'Teflon Dave' may not face tamper charges regarding Booker domestic abuse case [NYDN]

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The Conservatives say they will make Britain the first country in Europe to have widespread super-fast broadband.

Hamas releases a British journalist, Paul Martin, accused of spying and jailed for nearly a month in the Gaza Strip.

Terror group may now be favoring smaller, simpler attacks, as long as they still sew "fear"

Jungers with Loredana Jolie and Jaimee Grubbs.

We've known for a long time that there was something special about Jamie Jungers, one of Tiger Woods's most outspoken mistresses. It's not just that her name sounds like a euphemism for boobs, or that she was the first to claim she was "in love" with Tiger. No — there's something else about her. And Howard Stern saw it, too, apparently. In his Tiger Woods Mistress Competition and Fashion Show yesterday, he crowned Jungers the best mistress of them all — leaving poor Jaimee Grubbs and some call girl in the dust. (Can call girls really be called mistresses? We guess Howard Stern, of anyone, would know.) What is it about Jamie that is so special?

It's that she knows exactly what we want to know, and dishes it out. From the Post's recap of the Stern show:

She also said that she was with Tiger the night that his dad died in 2006. She claimed that he had gone to visit his father, Earl, in the hospital hours before he passed away. He then went to visit her and had sex. She said she was in bed with him at about 2 or 3 a.m. when he got the call that his father died. She said it was an awkward moment for them.

An awkward moment? An awkward moment during sex is when both people have to ignore strange noises that are created by air pockets between two bodies. Finding out your father died while you are having sex is something else entirely.

But it wasn't just the willingness to tell that type of upsetting story that makes Jamie a winner. It's the fact that she, of all the mistresses, was the first to tell us that for Tiger Woods, the distance of nine inches is more than just the length of a gimme putt.

The Mistress Pageant [Howard Stern]

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London Underground (LU) is to axe up to 800 jobs under plans to make savings of £16m a year, the company has announced.

A Stockholm court rules a Swedish man can be extradited to Poland for trial over the theft of a sign from Auschwitz.

Sir Alex Ferguson challenges Wayne Rooney to surpass Cristiano Ronaldo's 42-goal season for Manchester United.