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(AP):The Mexican government is battling an egg shortage and hoarding that have caused prices to spike in a country with the highest per-capita egg consumption on Earth.A summer epidemic of bird flu in the...

Armstrong’s family says he died today of complications from heart surgery he had earlier this month.

LONDON (AP):The prince has no clothes, but British newspapers aren't running the pictures.The country's scandal-loving tabloids devoted many pages yesterday to the story of Prince Harry's naked romp in a Las Vegas...

Freetown, Sierra Leone (AP):Humanitarian officials say the death toll from a cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone has risen to 217 people. Oxfam said yesterday that the death rates in the West African country are almost double emergency thresholds....

MIAMI (CMC): The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has indicated that Tropical Storm Isaac could become a hurricane today, as it barrels down on the Dominican Republic and Haiti....

BEIJING (CMC): A senior Barbados government minister has told an international health conference that a quarter of all adult nationals in his country have at least one chronic disease and the figure could increase to affect more Barbadians by 2025.

ROSTOV-ON-DON (AP):A suicide bomber blew himself up as policemen in southern Russia gathered yesterday for the funeral of a slain colleague, killing at least seven of the policemen and badly wounding 12 other people, investigators said....

LONDON (AP): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on President Barack Obama to end a so-called "witch hunt" against his secret-spilling website, appearing in public Sunday for the first time since he took refuge two months ago inside Ecuador's Embassy...

The carnage in Afghanistan continued unabated on a major Muslim holiday on Sunday, as attackers killed two pairs of brothers with links to the government and three NATO service members.

LONDON (AP): It was a warning meant to remind Ecuador that Britain's patience has limits.

CANBERRA (AP):Australian authorities hold grave fears for 67 asylum seekers reported missing after they said they were leaving Indonesia in a rickety boat bound for Australia more than a month ago, an official said yesterday....

ALMATY (AP):Police in Kazakhstan say they are seeking to track down those responsible for the killing of 11 people in a national park near the commercial capital, Almaty.The Interior Ministry said yesterday that 100 police officers are combing the...