The EU's president has urged leaders gathering for an emergency summit to stop fighting over a refugee-quota deal and take urgent action to secure the bloc's borders in the face of "millions" of migrants.
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WOLFSBURG - Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn has resigned over a pollution cheating scandal that has sparked a US criminal investigation and worldwide legal action with unfathomable financial consequences for the auto giant.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and Pope Francis have married their political and spiritual power to urge action on immigration and the environment, during the popular pontiff's maiden White House visit.
CAIRO - Australian journalist Peter Greste says he is "overjoyed" that two of his Al Jazeera colleagues have walked free after being pardoned by Egypt's president.
NEW YORK - Donald Trump says he's done appearing on Fox News shows for the "foreseeable future" because he doesn't like the network's coverage of his presidential campaign.
PARIS - Trees, crucial absorbers of climate-harming carbon dioxide gas, may finally be baulking at an ever-earlier spring season brought on by global warming, researchers say.
BEIJING - Two brothers and a trader face prosecution in southwestern China for killing a panda and selling its meat and paws, state news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday.
LONDON - Breastfeeding does little to improve a child's intelligence, despite the widespread belief that "breast is best" for IQ, research has shown.
MOSCOW - Russian investigators have exhumed the remains of the country's last emperor Nicholas II and empress Alexandra as part of a new probe into the 1918 slaying of the Romanov family.
VIENNA - Lions roar, wolves howl, elephants trumpet and giraffes apparently hum - but only at night.
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