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Matt Groening spills Springfield secret

Apr 11, 2012 / 7:39 am

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

Apr 11, 2012 / 7:01 am

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

Apr 11, 2012 / 6:52 am

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

Apr 10, 2012 / 10:15 pm

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

Apr 10, 2012 / 9:59 pm

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

Apr 10, 2012 / 9:08 pm

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

Apr 10, 2012 / 7:55 am

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

Apr 10, 2012 / 7:28 am

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

Apr 10, 2012 / 7:12 am

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

Apr 9, 2012 / 8:30 pm

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

Apr 9, 2012 / 4:30 pm

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

Apr 9, 2012 / 3:00 pm

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

Apr 9, 2012 / 12:30 pm

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

Apr 9, 2012 / 11:00 am

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

Apr 9, 2012 / 10:08 am

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

Apr 9, 2012 / 7:27 am

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

Apr 9, 2012 / 7:12 am

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

Apr 9, 2012 / 7:01 am

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

Apr 8, 2012 / 7:00 pm

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

Apr 8, 2012 / 7:00 pm

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...

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