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Elephants, wildlife flee fire in Kenya
A fire on the slopes of Kenya's tallest mountain is sending big game animals like elephants fleeing for their lives, as wildlife agents and British troops...
Motorcycle gunman kills three
A motorcycle gunman opened fire Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two small sons and one other child, the...
Kevin Costner sculpture goes to court
The South Dakota Supreme Court will hear an appeal of a ruling that actor Kevin Costner did not breach a contract with an artist whom he commissioned to produce...
Syrian troops fight rebels in Damascus
Rare gun battles between security forces and rebels broke out Monday in an upscale Damascus neighbourhood where embassies are located and senior officials live,...
More drug cartel violence in Mexico
Mexican authorities have found 10 severed heads dumped outside a slaughterhouse in a town in northern Guerrero state. They are still looking for the bodies. A...
5 wounded in Indianapolis shooting
Gunfire erupted as throngs were celebrating a mild St. Patrick's Day along a popular downtown canal in Indianapolis and at least five teenagers were wounded...
India's 100 year-old 'Mr. Universe'
A former Mr. Universe who has just turned 100 said Sunday that happiness and a life without tensions are the key to his longevity. Manohar Aich, who is 4 foot...
Violence continues in Syria
An explosion struck near a Syrian government security building in the northern city of Aleppo Sunday while a harsh security crackdown prevented opposition...
Lawyer to meet accused soldier
With formal charges looming against his client within days, the lawyer for an Army sergeant suspected in the horrific nighttime slaughter of 16 Afghan villagers...
Afghanistan wants private soldiers out
The Afghan government is giving companies extensions ranging from a few weeks to 90 days to change from private security guards to a government-run force,...
Suicide bombers kill 27 in Syria
Two suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in near-simultaneous attacks on heavily guarded intelligence and security buildings in the Syrian...
Malnourished boy was locked in closet
When Florida police checked out a child abuse report, they found an emaciated boy lying on the floor inside a locked bathroom at his home, apparently punished...
Ex Gadhafi intelligence chief caught
Mauritania on Saturday arrested Moammar Gadhafi's former intelligence chief, accused of attacking civilians during the uprising in Libya last year and the...
Rally welcomes Chavez home
Hundreds of Venezuelans rallied on Saturday to welcome President Hugo Chavez home from Cuba, where he underwent cancer surgery to remove a tumour. Chavez...
Comedian Gallagher still in a coma
Doctors have decided to wait before bringing the comedian Gallagher out of the medically induced coma he was put in after his heart attack last week in Texas....
China concerned by N. Korean rockets
China said it has expressed concern to North Korea about its plan to launch a long-range rocket, as a North Korean nuclear envoy arrived in Beijing on Saturday...
US sent POW's to prisons that torture
A report released Saturday by two rights groups says the U.S. sent some detainees to Afghan prisons where torture was found despite an announced moratorium on...
Shortcuts taken in Apple story
An artist admitted Friday to taking shortcuts in crafting an often harrowing tale about Apple Inc.'s operations in China after the veracity of his one-man...
Red Bull maker takes final flight
State media in Thailand reports the self-made Thai billionaire who created the renowned Red Bull energy drink three decades ago has died. He was 89. Thai state...
Thatcher the doodle thief
Margaret Thatcher was so fascinated by U.S. President Ronald Reagan that she snatched and kept a page of his doodles from a G7 summit, the former British prime...


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