Venezuela’s new ‘fatherland’ ID card, created with China’s ZTE, helps create social control

Egypt: President Mursi orders parliament to reopen

Ernest Borgnine, Oscar-winning actor, dead at 95

Barack Obama calls for extension of Bush-era tax cuts for middle-class

Libya election a success: Election observes give thumbs-up to Libya vote

Romney June fundraising beats Obama

Tom Cruise and Katie Holms reach divorce settlement

US breaks heat record in June

Germany: Circumcision ban to be protested by rabbis

Obama invites Mursi, Egypt’s Islamist leader, to U.S.

Olympics: Quidditch players fight for legitimacy

Dark Knight falls, say physics students

Mahmoud Sarsak, Palestine soccer player, freed from Israeli prison

Russia, Syria to talk over ending Syrian violence

Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, DRC warlord, convicted

Perry rejects Obama’s health care law

PFGBest missing millions in customer funds

London 2012 Olympics: Green standard set for sustainability

Wall Street wrongdoing necessary, executives say: survey

China’s bishop appointment “illicit,” Vatican says

Egypt court overrules President Mursi’s decision to recall parliament

Rezwan Ferdaus pleads guilty to Pentagon bombing plot

The Libyan economy is growing this year, according to a new IMF report

Euro hits two-year low and oil falls

Hope Solo warned by USADA after doping test finds banned substance

Google settlement for privacy breach to be $22.5 million

Nina Arianda to play Janis Joplin in new biopic

Yemen: Sanaa Bombing kills at least 22 people

Libya election results: Jibril leads, but Islamists say not beaten

Russia ratifies WTO membership

Crusades gold coins discovered in Israel

Optimistic voters give Obama popularity boost

Timbuktu tombs destroyed by Mali Islamists

Ann Slaughter reaction: On having it all, and not

NAACP boos Mitt Romney

Kabul: Afghan women protest for equal rights

Ohio: Freight train accident in Columbus

Benghazi: Jibril to win majority of city’s vote

Nigeria: Chevron workers, “scared like hell,” sought evacuation before deadly blast

Florida A and M hazing scandal causes University President James Ammons to resign

Bin Laden cook, Ibrahim al Qosi, freed from Guantanamo

Syria: Rape and assault of women a tactic of Assad’s forces, rights group says

Penn State report: Joe Paterno and others “repeatedly concealed critical facts”

Spain: Austerity plan to cut 65 billion from deficit by 2014

Facebook scan for sex-predators sees uneven results

Laurent Fabius, France’s Foreign Minister, says military intervention in Mali “probable”

Yahoo hacked by D33DS Company – a new hacker group

Scientology TV and radio coming soon

Timeline: Penn State scandal

PSU Freeh report: Key quotes

Wells Fargo settlement, $125 million for racial discrimination

Iran sanctions expanded, firms and persons blacklisted

Chocolate austerity: demand loss for chocolate reflects euro zone debt crisis

Rolling Stones celebrate 50th anniversary

Peugeot cuts 8000 jobs, shuts plant, and Opel CEO resigns

Syria: Nawaf al-Fares tells rebels to “turn your guns on the criminals” of the government

Mont Blanc avalanche kills 9 climbers

Zimmerman not racist: FBI report

Peru: artifacts returned by US

Tremseh Massacre: Syrian forces allegedly kill over 100