A 5-year-old Mexican boy whose eyes were allegedly gouged out by his mother as part of a drug-fueled ritual "to save the world" is expected to live, but has been left completely blind, health ... Opponents criticise the Welsh government for reducing the number of daily express trains between Holyhead and Cardiff ... (Reuters) - Europe's economic slowdown has hit the engine-room of the euro zone, including Germany, gloomy new indicators have revealed, adding urgency to the region's struggle to keep Greece's debt ... STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Moody's cut ratings for DNB , Handelsbanken and Nordea on Friday in an expected move, pointing to vulnerability in terms of the Nordic banks funding and asset quality, as well ... Libyan prime minister Abdurrahim El-Keib lays a wreath at the spot where policewoman Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead in London in 1984 ... Police launch a murder investigation after the body of a 59-year-old man is discovered in his Glasgow home ... A survivor of Anders Behring Breivik's massacre on Utoya island has faced him in court and defiantly said the shooting has strengthened his interest in politics ... PARIS (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.52 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.3 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.48 ... The widow of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy is set to give a commencement speech, but she'll be addressing a different group of Catholic graduates than originally planned ... Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has said that she was unaware that Harvard Law School had been promoting her purported Native American heritage until she read about it in a newspaper several weeks ... | 
