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UN suspends polio drive in Pakistan after killings
The United Nations suspended its polio vaccination drive in Pakistan on Wednesday after eight people involved in the effort were shot dead in the past ...
Coal mine collapse and blast kills 8 in Iran
Iran's official news agency says a collapse and explosion in a coal mine has killed eight workers in the country's east. IRNA on Wednesday quoted ...
Carnegie fund mints newest class of heroes
An apartment complex clerk shot in the head. A boy stabbed by knife-wielding men. Teens struggling to stay afloat in the Pacific. An elderly woman ...
Police: 27 killed in north Nigeria traffic crash
Police in northwest Nigeria say 27 people riding atop a truck carrying livestock have been killed when it tipped over and crashed. Sokoto state police ...
Latest winners of Carnegie Hero medals
Winners of Carnegie Hero medals awarded Wednesday: — Christopher M. Johnson, 20, of Bolingbrook, Ill., helped save teenage boy who broke through the ...
Source of persistent Gulf sheen remains a mystery
Officials say underwater inspections at the site of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig disaster have failed to identify the source of a persistent sheen on ...
Bird flu kills 4-year-old boy in Indonesia
A 4-year-old Indonesian boy has died from bird flu, bringing the death toll to 160 in the country hardest-hit by the deadly virus, a health official ...
Bangladesh probe: Fire sabotage, owner negligent
A Bangladesh government committee investigating the garment factory fire that killed 112 people last month said in its findings that the blaze was ...
Chevron offers to settle Brazil spill lawsuits
Brazilian prosecutors say Chevron Corp. has offered to pay $150 million to settle two civil lawsuits stemming from an offshore oil spill. The lawsuits ...
19 people drowned after boat capsizes in Benin
Officials say at least 19 people drowned after a boat capsized on a river near a village in Benin's south. The mayor of the town of Abomey, Patrice ...
Car bomb at US compound in Kabul kills 2 Afghans
A car bomb outside a compound housing a U.S. military contractor in the Afghan capital killed at least two Afghan workers and wounded more than a ...
Carr pick sends Cowboys past Steelers in OT, 27-24
Brandon Carr figured Ben Roethlisberger was throwing his way. Thousands of Terrible Towel-waving Pittsburgh fans at Cowboys Stadium weren't happy with ...
Ala. police kill suspects after separate shootings
Police in Alabama say a SWAT team shot dead a man wielding an assault rifle following a chase touched off by a triple killing, hours after a separate ...
Nigeria governor, 5 others die in helicopter crash
A navy helicopter crashed Saturday in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, killing a state governor and five other people, in the latest air disaster ...
Owner of Rivera plane denies drug connections
The man who runs the business that owns a luxury jet that crashed and killed Latin music star Jenni Rivera says he has never been involved in drug ...
18 migrants found dead, 9 reportedly missing
Coast guard officials say they have found the bodies of 18 people who were trying to cross illegally into Greece when their boat capsized early Friday
Uncle: Dad recalls crash that killed sons as blur
The uncle of two young brothers killed by a suspected drunk driver who was then fatally shot at the crash scene said Friday that the boys' father, who ...
Spaniard jailed in Cuba to finish sentence at home
A Spaniard sentenced in Cuba to prison for the death of a prominent dissident will fly back to Spain to serve the rest of his four-year term, ...
Twin NASA spacecraft prepare to crash into moon
After nearly a year circling the moon, NASA's Ebb and Flow will meet their demise when they crash — on purpose — into the lunar surface. Just don't ...
NKorea still years away from credible missiles
They don't call it rocket science for nothing. North Korea's first successful launch of a three-stage, long-range rocket has outraged world leaders ...
Cowboys back to practice after memorial service
The corner locker assigned to Jerry Brown at the Dallas Cowboys facility remained untouched Wednesday. A day after a private memorial service for ...
Police search Calif. campus for robbery suspects
Students at Cal State Fullerton who barricaded themselves inside classrooms and dorm rooms Wednesday afternoon prepared to stay put into the night as ...
NOAA chief says she will leave in February
The woman who was a key figure in the federal government's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 said Wednesday she will leave her ...
New inquiry in '86 crash killing Mozambique leader
South African police have opened a new investigation into the 1986 airplane crash that killed Mozambique's Marxist president and more than 20 others, ...
Mexico: Rivera's plane hit with 'terrible' impact
The plane carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera plunged almost vertically from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground in a ...