World press at a glance

BBC
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged her country's continuing support to Greece.

Reuters
NATO said it had drawn up plans to defend Turkey if necessary should the war in Syria spill over their border again as dozens of people were killed across the Arab nation on Tuesday.

The Telegraph
The Israeli prime minister answered weeks of intense speculation on Tuesday evening when, in a televised press conference, he called for government to be dissolved in order to prepare for early elections. Given his government has been unable to agree a national budget, Mr Netanyahu announced: "I have therefore decided, for the benefit of Israel, to hold elections now and as quickly as possible."

USA Today
British police said Wednesday that they had arrested two people at London's Heathrow Airport as part of an investigation into travel to Syria in support of alleged terrorist activity.

Sky News
Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges in the US, including hostage-taking and trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon.

France 24
Malala Yousufzai, a Pakistani girl who rose to prominence after speaking out against Taliban militants who closed down her school in 2009, was in critical condition on Tuesday after Taliban gunmen fired on her school bus in the Swat valley.
Taliban gunmen in Pakistan shot and seriously wounded on Tuesday a 14-year-old schoolgirl widely admired for speaking out against religious extremists and in favour of women’s rights.

CNN
French and American scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work with light and matter, which may lead the way to superfast computers and "the most precise clocks ever seen," the prize committee said.