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China sex tape official: I'm a lecher but no crook
Call me a lecher but don't call me a crook, an ex-city official at the heart of a sex tape scandal has said in his unusually spirited courtroom ...
Fire blazes at Dutch firelighting block factory
Authorities in the Dutch city of Oisterwijk say a fire has broken out at a factory that makes firelighting blocks for barbecues and campfires.
Birth control shots could alter life in poor areas
A decade ago, the Rosebud Sioux Indians in South Dakota were paying people to catch and shoot wild dogs. Dogs that weren't caught were covered in ...
Iraqis vote in 2 Sunni-dominated provinces
Iraqis in two Sunni-dominated provinces where provincial elections had been delayed over security concerns were casting ballots Thursday amid tight ...
India floods strand thousands; more than 100 dead
Days after floods killed more than 100 people — possibly many more — rescuers used helicopters and climbed through mountain paths to reach nearly ...
Jewish educator who survived Soviet Gulag dies
Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, a religious educator who survived a brutal Gulag in Siberia and secretly taught Judaism under an oppressive Soviet regime, has ...
Police: Disabled Pa. man who died suffered neglect
A 32-year-old Pennsylvania man with Down syndrome was so severely neglected by his family that his body was covered in scabies and he weighed just 69 ...
In northern Iraqi city, al-Qaida gathers strength
Al-Qaida's Iraq arm is gathering strength in the restive northern city of Mosul, ramping up its fundraising through gangland-style shakedowns and ...
Brazil officials reverse subway, bus fare hike
Leaders in Brazil's two biggest cities said Wednesday that they reversed an increase in bus and subway fares that ignited anti-government protests ...
Mueller: FBI uses drones for surveillance
The FBI uses drones for surveillance of stationary subjects, and the privacy implications of such operations are "worthy of debate," FBI Director ...
China's Xi harks back to Mao in party 'cleanup'
China's new leader Xi Jinping is commanding wayward Communist Party cadres to purify themselves of corruption, and he's summed it up in a pithy slogan ...
Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory ...
Judge sides with US in Manning document dispute
A federal judge in Baltimore said Wednesday she's satisfied for now with measures the military has taken to release documents related to Army Pfc.
Venezuela: Plane that disappeared in '08 found
Venezuelan authorities say the undersea wreckage of a small plane that disappeared five years ago with 14 people aboard has been found.
US and Cuba agree to resume migration talks
The United States and Cuba have agreed to resume bilateral talks on migration issues next month, a State Department official said Wednesday, the ...
Kidnapped French sailor rescued by Nigerian troops
Nigeria's military says its troops have rescued a French sailor kidnapped by pirates off the coast of Togo. Spokesman Lt. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu said ...
Militants storm UN compound in Somalia; 20 killed
Seven al-Qaida-linked militants on a suicide mission attacked the U.N. compound Wednesday with a truck bomb and then poured inside, killing at least ...
Syria troops fight rebels near major Shiite shrine
Hezbollah fighters joined Syrian forces in battling rebels in a Damascus suburb that is home to a revered Shiite Muslim shrine, in a push to secure ...
US tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects
Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S.
Wooden beam could be detached part of shipwreck
A wooden beam that has long been the focus of the search for a 17th century shipwreck in northern Lake Michigan was not attached to a buried vessel ...
Former Hungarian prime minister Gyula Horn dies
Gyula Horn, a former Hungarian prime minister who played a key role in opening the Iron Curtain, has died at the age of 80. He was best known ...
Syria infiltrators, Jordan military clash, 1 dead
Jordan's military says infiltrators from Syria have clashed with Jordanian soldiers near the border. One infiltrator was killed and two wounded.
Militants kill 6 soldiers in northwest Pakistan
A senior police official says militants attacked a military convoy with rocket-propelled grenades and other heavy weapons in northwest Pakistan, ...
UN says 45.2 million refugees and displaced people
The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.