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Published:Monday | May 20, 2013 | 2:14 PM

Officials say Baghdad was worst hit, with nine explosions at bus stations and markets in the mainly Shia Muslim districts.

Published:Monday | May 20, 2013 | 8:32 AM

He wrote to 10 territories and crown dependencies, including The Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man, which operate low-tax regimes.

Published:Sunday | May 19, 2013 | 3:06 PM

The latest high-stakes court hearing for O.J. Simpson in the glitzy capital of big gambles has come to a close with the former football star's defense team feeling confident.

Published:Sunday | May 19, 2013 | 12:16 PM

The Metro-North commuter rail line says crews will spend days rebuilding 2,000 feet of track, overhead wires and signals damaged in a derailment and crash in Connecticut.

Published:Sunday | May 19, 2013 | 10:48 AM

The Syrian military on Sunday launched an offensive to retake a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, a government official said.

Published:Saturday | May 18, 2013 | 12:09 PM

The crash occurred during the rush hour period as one of the trains was transporting hundreds of passengers from New York City.

Published:Saturday | May 18, 2013 | 9:57 AM

A law banning violence against women, child marriages and forced marriages was passed by presidential decree in 2009, but did not gain MPs' approval.

Published:Thursday | May 16, 2013 | 4:27 PM

The country has gotten used to shortages of medicines and basic food items like milk and sugar but the scarcity of bathroom tissue has caused unusual alarm.

Published:Thursday | May 16, 2013 | 9:56 AM

He says Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had asked for and accepted the resignation of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Steve Miller.

Published:Wednesday | May 15, 2013 | 3:56 PM

A Washington state judge has sentenced an inmate to death for killing a state corrections officer in a prison chapel two years ago.

Published:Wednesday | May 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

MOSCOW (AP):A UNITED States (US) diplomat was ordered yesterday to leave the country after the Kremlin's security services said he tried to recruit a Russian agent.

Published:Wednesday | May 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): A surprising new report questions efforts to get Americans to sharply cut back on salt, saying getting to super-low levels may not be worth the struggle.

Published:Wednesday | May 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP):The twins were seven, shy and scared.Talking was tough and describing what happened nearly impossible.

Published:Wednesday | May 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The United States Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press (AP) in what the news cooperative's top...

Published:Wednesday | May 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

DHAKA (AP):Thousands of mourners gathered yesterday at the wreckage of a Bangladeshi garment factory building to offer prayers for the souls of the 1,127 people who died in the structure's collapse last month, the worst tragedy in the history of the...

Published:Wednesday | May 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded programme for roughly US$223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning...

Published:Tuesday | May 14, 2013 | 1:35 PM

For women who already have the disease, the choice used to be whether to have the lump or the whole breast removed.

Published:Tuesday | May 14, 2013 | 12:01 PM

US-based Human Rights Watch identified the rebel as Abu Sakkar, who is a well-known insurgent from the city of Homs.

Published:Tuesday | May 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

ABERDEEN (AP): Police received a call over the weekend that a man was dragging a heavily intoxicated woman under a bridge in Aberdeen.When officers arrived they found a 39-year-old man having sexual contact with a 42-year-old who had passed out.

Published:Tuesday | May 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP): The Obama administration yesterday filed a last-minute appeal to delay the sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill to girls of any age without a prescription.

Published:Tuesday | May 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

PHILADELPHIA (AP): A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty yesterday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic...

Published:Tuesday | May 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Immigration activists are calling on President Barack Obama to end deportations of immigrants who might be eligible for legal status under a new immigration bill.Activists have long complained of record deportations breaking up families...

Published:Tuesday | May 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

BELLINGHAM (AP):Suicide stalks Indian Country, claiming more lives of native youth than those in any other population, not only in Washington, but nationally.State Department of Health statistics released this month show that, in Washington...

Published:Tuesday | May 14, 2013 | 12:00 AM

NEW ORLEANS (AP): The head of the New Orleans Police Department says investigators have made significant progress in their investigation of a Mother's Day shooting that wounded 19 people....

Published:Monday | May 13, 2013 | 3:54 PM

An official of the city's prosecutor's office who was not authorised to be quoted by name says the two suspects are employees of the bar where Shabazz reportedly got in a violent dispute last week.

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