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33 die in Mexico oil company office building blast
A blast that collapsed the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath ...
Authorities release photo of accused Ala. abductor
After four anxious days, only the slimmest of details has come to light in a police standoff with an Alabama man who is accused of holding a ...
Chicago takes leading role in national gun debate
They are counting the dead from gunfire again in Chicago, a city awash in weapons despite having one of the strictest gun-control ordinances in the ...
Review: Politics and old-style humor in 'Fiorello'
What goes around comes around. It's a key principle in politics, and apparently in musical theater, too. In the 1940s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia saved ...
Ed Koch, New York's feisty mayor, dies at 88
When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and ...
Iraq Sunnis protest; al-Qaida front calls to arms
Tens of thousands of Sunni protesters blocked a major highway in western Iraq on Friday, as an al-Qaida-affiliated group called on Sunnis to take up ...
Negotiators talking to Ala. captor through pipe
More than three days after he allegedly shot a school bus driver dead, grabbed a kindergartner and slipped into an underground bunker, Jimmy Lee Dykes ...
Hispanics to soon surpass whites in California
Hispanics will become the largest ethnic group in the nation's most populous state early next year, the California Department of Finance said ...
Former NYC mayor Koch moved to intensive care
Former Mayor Ed Koch has been moved to intensive care for closer monitoring of the fluid in his lungs and legs, his spokesman said Thursday.
Brazil nightclub fire prompts regional reaction
Brazilian authorities inspected and shuttered night spots around the country on Thursday as part of a crackdown on unsafe public spaces after a deadly ...
Egypt's political factions denounce violence
Representatives from across Egypt's political spectrum held a rare meeting Thursday to denounce violence, hours before a fresh call for a new wave of ...
Stalingrad gets name back on days marking battle
The southern Russian city where the Red Army decisively turned back Nazi forces in a key World War II battle will once again be known as Stalingrad, ...
Timbuktu revels in new freedom but fears linger
A leaflet listing the regulations for women under Islamist rule now lies in dirt here at the tribunal in Timbuktu. Rule No. 1: The veil should cover ...
Roadside bomb kills 2 polio workers in NW Pakistan
A roadside bomb killed two Pakistani polio workers on their way to vaccinate children in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border on ...
China says 14 guilty of pollution protest violence
Fourteen people pleaded guilty to encouraging a riot in eastern China last year in which the local Communist Party chief was stripped half-naked in ...
Coyotes' deal in Glendale could be in trouble
The prospective owner of the Phoenix Coyotes is unlikely to complete a deal to buy the team from the NHL before a lease agreement with the City of ...
Brazil nightclub owner blames country for fire
The owner of a nightclub in southern Brazil where more than 230 people died in a fire last weekend deflected blame to "the whole country," as well as ...
New Orleans' challenge: policing 2 huge parties
A New Orleans police force famed for its crowd control prowess is getting help from state and federal authorities as the city hosts an estimated ...
Tensions linger in US over 'comfort women' plaques
Four years ago, noticing plaques at the county courthouse commemorating slavery, the Holocaust and other atrocities, Korean-American community leader ...
Report: Ivory Coast gov't lacks impartiality
Ivory Coast's government has displayed a "lack of impartiality" by not pursuing specific perpetrators of 2010-11 postelection violence including those ...
Brazil police: Outdoor flare started club fire
Penny-pinching by a band known for its onstage pyrotechnic displays may have cost more than 230 people their lives at a nightclub in southern Brazil, ...
Billionaire (not that one) announces NYC mayor bid
From one billionaire mayor of New York City to another? Businessman John Catsimatidis is hoping so. Catsimatidis, whose business interests include ...
Santa Maria mourns its dead, calls for justice
The young law student sat alone in a pew, clutching a shirt on which she'd written the names of friends she'd lost in a weekend nightclub fire in this ...
Egypt army chief warns state could collapse
Residents of this Mediterranean coastal city burying their dead from Egypt's wave of political violence vented their fury at Egypt's Islamist ...
San Francisco nudity ban upheld in federal court
A federal judge cleared the way Tuesday for the city of San Francisco to ban most displays of public nudity, ruling that an ordinance set to take ...