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Matt Groening spills Springfield secret
The Springfield that exists in the mind of Matt Groening is a kind of American everything hick pit stop, rosy-cheeked Rockwellian font of family values,...
Powerful earthquakes hit Indonesia
Two massive earthquakes triggered back-to-back tsunami warnings for Indonesia on Wednesday, sending panicked residents fleeing to high ground in cars and on the...
Greek general election on May 6
Greece's Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has confirmed that an early general election will be held on May 6. Papademos told a Cabinet meeting Wednesday that...
Santorum leaves Republican race
Rick Santorum ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, exiting the bruising race after months of giving the wealthy Mitt Romney an...
NKorean rocket being fuelled
Engineers are pumping fuel into a rocket that is set to carry a satellite into space, officials at the North Korean space agency's central command centre...
Bus bombing in Philippines kills 10
The Philippine military says a bus bomb in the restive southern region has killed 10 passengers and wounded two others. Regional commander Col. Leopoldo Galon...
Norway killer found to be sane
The right-wing extremist who confessed to killing 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage in Norway is not criminally insane, a psychiatric assessment found...
Students stop bus, give driver CPR
Police are praising teenage students who safely stopped a school bus after the driver was apparently stricken with a heart attack. Jeremy Wuitschick grabbed...
Woman uses cancer to get big wedding
Authorities say a former New York woman pretended to have terminal cancer so she could have a lavish wedding reception and honeymoon. The Times Herald-Record...
2 confessions in Tulsa shooting
Police documents filed in court say the two suspects arrested in a shooting spree that terrorized Tulsa's black community have both confessed. An affidavit...
Weather delays Titanic memorial cruise
LONDON - A memorial cruise retracing the route of the Titanic 100 years since it sank has been slightly delayed because of high winds, a spokeswoman for the...
NKorea preparing for nuclear test
Recent satellite images show North Korea is digging a new underground tunnel in what appears to be preparation for a third nuclear test, according to South...
Nuclear talks: Iran's offer falls short
Iran is signalling a possible compromise offer heading into critical talks with world powers deeply suspicious of its nuclear program: offering to scale back...
Autism research could soon payoff
More than $1 billion has been spent over the past decade searching for the causes of autism. In some ways, the research looks like a long-running fishing...
2012 is really heating up the US
It has been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records were not just broken, they were deep-fried. Temperatures in the...
Peru miners could be trapped days
It may take two or three more days to rescue nine miners trapped in an informal copper mine, Peru's prime minister said, as rescuers supplied the men with...
Firefighters killed in massive fire
A massive fire at an abandoned warehouse claimed the lives of two Philadelphia firefighters after a wall collapsed inside an adjacent building where the two men...
Conflict deepens in Syria
The bloody conflict in Syria spilled across two borders Monday, killing a cameraman in Lebanon and wounding at least five people in a refugee camp in Turkey as...
Hudson's star power complicates trial
Accustomed to wearing Vera Wang gowns on red carpets, singing at the Grammys or autographing her weight-loss memoir, Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson will take on a...
London worries over Olympic protests
Britain's Olympic chief fears the London Games could be marred by a protest like the one that disrupted the Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge on the...






