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LONDON (AP): Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who died yesterday from a stroke at age 87 retired from public engagements in 2002, following a series of small strokes, and was only occasionally seen in public since then...

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is accused of being involved in an illegal scheme that used public funds to pay coalition parties for political support.

TOPEKA, (AP) A phrase declaring that life begins "at fertilisation" tucked into new abortion legislation in Kansas is creating concern among abortion rights advocates that the wording will inspire new attempts to prevent the procedure.

BAGRAM (AP): Heightened tensions with North Korea have led the United States (US) to postpone congressional testimony by the top US military commander in South Korea and delay an intercontinental ballistic missile test from a West Coast base.

WASHINGTON (AP) :Congress returns today from a two-week spring recess with gun control and immigration high on the Senate's agenda.

MONTGOMERY, (AP)Alabama lawmakers have passed two very similar bills that would make it easier to criminally charge people who abuse, neglect or financially exploit the elderly, and the sponsors say they expect the governor to sign one of them into...

Judge Edward Korman says his order must be carried out within a month, and he criticized the FDA for failing to engage in rule-making to adopt an age-restricted marketing regime.

Lance Armstrong has withdrawn from the Masters South Central Zone Swimming Championships in Texas this weekend after an objection from

CAIRO, Egypt (AP):Hundreds of Egyptian students angered by a mass outbreak of food poisoning at a Cairo university stormed yesterday into the offices of the country's top Muslim cleric, who presides over the institution.The Monday outbreak at al-Azhar...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP): Prosecutors say a man caught smuggling 17lb (8 kilograms) of methamphetamine and cocaine in three false-bottom suitcases at San Francisco International Airport has been sentenced to 121/2 years in prison.

SALEM, Oregon (AP): A Catholic priest pleaded guilty on Monday to sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy he invited for a sleepover when he was pastor of a church in a small city in Oregon state.