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CLEVELAND (AP): Three women who disappeared separately about a decade ago, and the child of one of them, were found in a home in this Midwestern United States city and likely had been tied up during years of captivity, authorities disclosed yesterday...

NEW YORK (AP):REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS advocates urged a judge yesterday to let teenage girls buy morning-after birth control without a prescription beginning this week, saying to delay enforcement of his ruling while the government appeals would cause...

The 56-year-old is one of the so-called 'Cuban Five', intelligence agents convicted in 2001 of spying on US military installations in South Florida, exile groups and politicians.

More than 600 bodies have been recovered from the garment-factory building that collapsed well over a week ago, police said Sunday.

The new procedure is the government's first security change directly related to the Boston bombings. The order from a senior official at US Customs and Border Protection was circulated today.

SEOUL (AP):A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for "hostile acts" against the state, the North's media said yesterday, a move that could trigger a visit by a high-profile American ...

BOGOTA (AP):The editor of Colombia's top news magazine says gunmen fired five shots at its prize-winning investigations chief, but he was uninjured.Semana editor Alejandro Santos says Ricardo Calderón was attacked on Wednesday night by two gunmen who...

The report by the UN food agency and the US-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network said half of those who died were children under the age of five.

BANGLADESH (AP):Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers, their bodies too battered or decomposed to be identified, were buried in a mass funeral yesterday, a week after the eight-story building they worked...

BOSTON (AP): Three more suspects were taken into custody in the Boston Marathon bombing case, including two college friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who came to the United States from Kazakhstan, authorities and a defence attorney said yesterday....

South Africa said it had not been properly consulted over the move and it would have far-reaching implications.

WASHINGTON (CMC): Caribbean nationals who have been deported from the United States are returning illegally to the country, according to a report released by an immigration think tank....