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By Nehal El-Sherif, Shabtai Gold Nasiriyah, Iraq (dpa) – Simply wearing jeans, listening to pop music or having too much fun in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah now can can elicit the […]
By Nehal El-Sherif, Shabtai Gold Nasiriyah, Iraq (dpa) – Simply wearing jeans, listening to pop music or having too much fun in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah now can can elicit the […]
Berlin (dpa) – Because your eyes move faster than your arms, an optical device may one day steer your car around sudden, sharp curves the instant you see the danger ahead, according to a team […]
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By John M. Glionna BEIJING _ Chinese officials declared Sunday a national day of mourning to remember the more than 1,200 people killed by recent flooding that still held parts of the country in […]
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By Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times JOHANNESBURG – A former university librarian on Thursday said he wanted to kill as many Americans as possible in bomb attacks that killed 76 people in the Ugandan capital […]
By Jacel Lepiarz dpa WARSAW – Polish police said Thursday that a suspected Israeli Mossad agent accused of helping obtain a fake passport used in the killing of a Hamas leader has been extradited to […]
By Matt Helms, Gina Damron, Zlati Meyer and Elisha Anderson Detroit Free Press FLINT, Mich. – Police have a man in custody in connection with the serial stabbings that left as many as five dead, […]
Jeff Black, Helen Maguire Berlin (dpa) – The impending online availability of Google’s novel Street View mapping technology for 20 of Germany’s largest cities has unleashed a wave of unease – in a country long […]
By Paul Walsh and Abby Simons MINNEAPOLIS _ Barely old enough for junior high, a 12-year-old rural Minnesota girl may be charged with DWI, according to authorities. She was at the wheel of […]
By Michael Logan Nairobi/Washington (dpa) – A notorious Ugandan rebel group has abducted hundreds of villagers in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced them to fight, Human Rights Watch […]
By Nadeem Sarwar Islamabad (dpa) – A second wave of floods is passing through Pakistan’s rivers and may affect more areas in the central province of Punjab, the head of the Pakistan Meterological Department said […]
By Lennart Simonsson dpa STOCKHOLM – Sweden’s anti-corruption unit has received six complaints into wedding gifts received by Princess Victoria and her husband on their recent honeymoon, the unit told the German news agency dpa […]
By Jim Souhan Star Tribune (Minneapolis) HAVEN, Wis. – He’s never looked weaker, not when limping around Torrey Pines or even while holding ersatz news conferences as his personal life imploded. Tiger Woods walked off […]
By Batsheva Sobelman and Jeffrey Fleishman Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM – In the most gripping testimony yet before a commission investigating the deadly commando raid on a Gaza Strip bound humanitarian aid flotilla, Israel’s chief […]
Ksenija Prodanovic Sarajevo/Belgrade (dpa) – Bosnian officials said Wednesday that the remains of 20 bodies had been found in the manmade lake of Perucac, located between Bosnia and Serbia. The head of the Bosnian Institute […]
Warsaw (dpa) – “Are you for or against the cross?” Poles ask each other as they gather for heated debate in front of the presidential palace. That question is at the […]
Manila (dpa) – Rescuers recovered Wednesday three bodies of crewmen from a cargo ship that sank last weekend in the central Philippines, a coast guard report said. Eight crew members were […]
By Rachel Bernstein Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES – Patients with brain tumors don’t have many good options – surgery and radiation can damage crucial parts of the brain, and chemotherapy drugs don’t easily cross […]
McClatchy-Tribune News Service As a nation of immigrants, the United States has long held that people born on U.S. soil become citizens – with the notable exception of the period when slavery was legal. But […]
Mike McCarthy Washington (dpa) – The United States is drawing up a 30-billion-dollar sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia despite Israeli concerns about the proposed package, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The centerpiece of […]
By Richard A. Serrano Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – The youngest prisoner at the U.S. Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is scheduled to stand trial Tuesday on allegations of killing a U.S. soldier and […]
By Bill Smith Beijing (dpa) – Soldiers were searching the rubble of collapsed buildings for some 1,300 missing people on Monday after floods and landslides hit north-western China’s Gansu province. Premier Wen Jiabao travelled […]
Hong Kong (dpa) – A woman decapitated her mother before setting their apartment on fire and jumping to her death, a media report said Monday. The woman, believed to have been mentally ill, stabbed […]
By Robert Carmichael Phnom Penh (dpa) – A reputed hoard of Khmer Rouge-era gold saw monks and villagers engaged in a weekend standoff with soldiers at a temple in western Cambodia, national media reported Monday. […]
By Benedikt Von Imhoff dpa MOSCOW – The battle against forest and peat bog fires around Russia continued Sunday, with new fires at one nuclear research site just after firefighters had succeeded in securing another […]
Helen Maguire Warsaw/Prague/Berlin (dpa) – At least nine people died during a weekend of floods in the region straddling Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic, authorities reported Sunday. Heavy rainfalls swelled rivers in the border regions […]
BEIJING – At least 80 people died in rain-triggered landslides north-western China county, state media reported Sunday. About 2,000 people were still missing after the landslides, which occurred overnight in Zhouqu County, in a Tibetan […]
By Saeed Shah McClatchy Newspapers KARACHI, Pakistan – The Pakistan government’s poor response to the worst floods in the country’s history has damaged its fragile democracy, while the powerful military establishment has gained stature with […]
Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – Five people were injured when a man opened fire in a square in the Brazilian town of Hortolandia, around 110 kilometres from Sao Paulo, police said Saturday. The attack happened […]
By Mark K. Matthews Two American astronauts failed to remove a broken cooling pump from outside the International Space Station on Saturday after a frustrating eight-hour spacewalk that set the record as the longest spacewalk […]
By Lennart Simonsson A Russian national died late Saturday in connection with the final of the Sauna World Championships in Finland, organizers said. The man apparently collapsed after spending some six minutes in the sauna […]
By Benedikt von Imhoff Visibility in some parts of Moscow dropped to below 50 metres (about 164 feet) and air pollution reached more than six times normal levels Saturday, as Russia battled more than 300 […]
Fifty miners were trapped underground after a fire engulfed a gold mine in north-eastern China, state media reported. A further 279 workers had been rescued at the Luoshan mine in Shandong Province, the state-run Xinhua […]
The day care center that operates the transportation van in which a toddler was found dead Thursday briefly opened for business Friday morning. Before 9 a.m., though, parents who had earlier brought youngsters to Katie’s […]
By Andy Goldberg. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday called on a judge to immediately authorize gay marriage in California. The Republican governor and former movie star made the call in a court filing on […]
By Alistair Barr MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO – Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett said Wednesday that 40 of America’s richest people publicly pledged to give away at least half their money to charity, a move that […]
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