PARIS - European leaders gather for an informal dinner summit in Brussels Wednesday, dominated by increasing calls for growth measures and gloomy news about the state of the eurozone economy. France's new president Francois Hollande is expected to champion a particularly controversial measure - eurobonds. This latest meeting of European Union leaders takes place amid a changed political and economic landscape. To be sure, the main problem facing the 27 European leaders remains the ...

JOHANNESBURG - South African police have arrested two people for vandalizing a controversial portrait of  President Jacob Zuma. The men, who were recorded by a local television station, are seen taking turns using paint to deface the portrait, which shows Zuma with his genitals exposed.   The vandalism was carried out as Zuma's lawyers were in court asking for the gallery to be ordered to remove the painting.  Zuma says it violates his constitutional right to ...