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It appears the death toll could continue to rise as more bodies have been recovered from the charred buildings in Jilin's Mishazi township.

Egypt's highest court ruled on Sunday that the nation's interim parliament was illegally elected, though it stopped short of dissolving the chamber immediately.

Eight adults and two children died from the Friday tornado, which charged down a clogged Interstate 40 in the western suburbs of Oklahoma City.

The FBI says the letter, posted to a CIA office that does not receive mail, has been linked to a man charged with sending a ricin letter to a judge.

OXON HILL, Maryland (AP): A spelling bee week that began with curiosity and angst over a new vocabulary test was set to end the familiar way, with bright kids spelling difficult words under the bright lights of prime-time television.

NORMAN, Oklahoma (AP): Storms are moving through Oklahoma and other parts of the central United States, and forecasters say tornadoes are possible.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP):Lawmakers in Nigeria passed a bill yesterday banning gay marriage and outlawing anyone from forming organisations supporting gay rights, setting prison terms of up to 14 years for offenders.Nigeria's House of Representatives approved...

Lawyers for the young woman, who suffers from lupus and kidney failure, had argued that continuing the pregnancy would place her life at risk.

OAXACA, Mexico (AP): Barbara rose to hurricane strength yesterday as it steamed toward a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's southern Pacific coast, where it was expected to quickly make landfall.

PARIS, France (AP): DNA traces on an orange juice bottle and a surveillance video of a man praying in a mall led to the arrest yesterday of a young suspected Islamic extremist accused of stabbing a French soldier patrolling a crowded area just outside Paris, officials said.

LANCASTER, California (AP): A Southern California woman and her boyfriend have been charged with capital murder in the death of the woman's eight year-old son.