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Published:Friday | July 13, 2012 | 12:00 AM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP):A NEWLY released Pentagon report says there is no evidence interrogators at Guantánamo used mind-altering drugs to question prisoners.

Published:Thursday | July 12, 2012 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack is by far the most memorable moment shared by television viewers during the last 50 years, a study released on Wednesday concluded.The only thing that came close was President ...

Published:Thursday | July 12, 2012 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): THE REPUBLICAN-led House has voted to repeal President Barack Obama's health-care law. But the election-year move stands no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate...

Published:Thursday | July 12, 2012 | 12:00 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP): EXPLODING FREIGHT cars full of ethanol made for a dramatic early-morning scene in Ohio's capital on Wednesday, but officials said the train derailment that led to a hurried evacuation of an urban neighbourhood...

Published:Monday | July 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

JOS (AP):Raids and reprisal attacks have left 52 people dead in Christian villages near a Nigerian city where authorities have struggled to contain religious violence, officials said yesterday.Assailants launched "sophisticated attacks" on several...

Published:Monday | July 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

GAUHATI (AP): The death toll has risen to 121 as damage mounts from monsoon floods that devastated the northeastern Indian state of Assam....

Published:Monday | July 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

KABUL (AP): Afghan authorities say a roadside bomb has killed five Afghan policemen who were responding to a gun battle against insurgents at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan.Daoud Ahmadi, the spokesman in Helmand province, says a group of Taliban...

Published:Monday | July 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

LAHORE (AP): Thousands of hardline Islamists streamed toward Pakistan's capital in a massive convoy of vehicles yesterday to protest the government's decision to allow the US and other NATO countries...

Published:Monday | July 9, 2012 | 12:00 AM

MIAMI (AP):Forecasters say Tropical Storm Emilia could become a hurricane in the next day or so, but the storm is not expected to threaten land.Yesterday, the US National Hurricane Center in Miami said Emilia was moving away from land over open ocean...

Published:Sunday | July 8, 2012 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):British police say they have arrested a seventh person over an alleged plot to launch a terrorist attack.

Published:Sunday | July 8, 2012 | 12:00 AM

JACKSON, Miss (AP):Attorneys for the state of Mississippi are trying to persuade a federal judge to let a new restrictive abortion law take effect.

Published:Sunday | July 8, 2012 | 12:00 AM

TRIPOLI, (AP):Jubilant Libyan voters marked a major step towards democracy after decades of erratic one-man rule, casting their ballots yesterday in the first parliamentary election after last year's overthrow and killing of long-time leader Moammar...

Published:Sunday | July 8, 2012 | 12:00 AM

KIEV, Ukraine (AP):An official report yesterday confirmed that a bus carrying Russian religious pilgrims crashed in Ukraine, killing 14 of the 45 people on-board.Yulia Yershova, a spokeswoman for Ukraine's Emergencies Ministry, said the crash took place...

Published:Sunday | July 8, 2012 | 12:00 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP):Pakistani police seized a large number of ancient Buddhist sculptures that smugglers were attempting to spirit out of the country and sell for millions of dollars on the international antiquities market, officials said yesterday.

Published:Friday | July 6, 2012 | 4:04 PM

The Chinese Ministry of Health has lifted a 14-year-old ban on lesbians donating blood.

Published:Friday | July 6, 2012 | 2:38 PM

Two former leaders during Argentina's military rule have been found guilty of overseeing the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners.

Published:Wednesday | July 4, 2012 | 10:02 AM

The left-wing runner-up in Sunday's presidential poll in Mexico has said he will demand a total recount of the vote.

Published:Wednesday | July 4, 2012 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Utility crews struggled to catch up with a backlog of millions of people without electricity for a fourth hot day yesterday, as frustration grew and authorities feared the toll of 23 storm deaths could rise because of stifling...

Published:Wednesday | July 4, 2012 | 12:00 AM

BAGHDAD (AP):Bombs pounded six Iraqi cities and towns yesterday, killing at least 40 people and raising suspicion that security forces might be assisting terrorists in launching attacks on Shi'ite Muslims.The onslaught came just ahead of a religious...

Published:Wednesday | July 4, 2012 | 12:00 AM

LIMA, (AP): Peru's distribution of more than 800,000 low-cost laptop computers to children across the country easily ranks as one of the world's most ambitious efforts to leverage digital technology in the fight against...

Published:Wednesday | July 4, 2012 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The Obama administration is moving toward decisions that would further cut the number of United States nuclear weapons, possibly to between 1,000 and 1,100, reflecting new thinking...

Published:Tuesday | July 3, 2012 | 3:03 PM

Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond has resigned a week after the bank was fined a record amount for trying to manipulate inter-bank lending rates.

Published:Tuesday | July 3, 2012 | 2:47 PM

Actor Andy Griffith, who made homespun Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in "The Andy Griffith Show" and the rumpled defense lawyer in "Matlock," died this morning at age 86.

Published:Monday | July 2, 2012 | 10:13 AM

Millions of people in a swath of states along the East Coast and farther west went into a third sweltering day without power, after a round of summer storms that killed more than a dozen people.

Published:Sunday | July 1, 2012 | 12:00 AM

GENEVA (AP):Russia's determination to preserve its last remaining ally in the Middle East collided head-on with United States (US) and other Western powers' desire to replace Syrian President Bashar...

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