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Published:Tuesday | July 26, 2011 | 10:12 AM

Mexican authorities say 17 inmates have been killed in a prison fight in the border city of Ciudad Juarez

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 1:53 PM

The hotel housekeeper accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her is telling her story publicly, she says, because she wants the former International Monetary Fund leader behind bars.

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 1:51 PM

In a blunt challenge to President Barack Obama, House Republicans drafted legislation Monday to avert a threatened Aug. 2 government default.

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 1:50 PM

The self-described perpetrator of the mass killings in Norway told authorities there that he expects to spend the rest of his life in prison but two other cells in his terror network could still launch attacks, officials said Monday.

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 1:49 PM

A 42-year-old man accused of shooting his estranged wife and others at a crowded nightclub south of Seattle is scheduled to appear in court for a bail hearing.

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Oslo:The man blamed for the terrorist attacks on Norway's government headquarters and an island retreat for young people that left at least 93 dead said he was motivated by a desire to bring about a revolution in Norwegian society, his lawyer said...

Published:Monday | July 25, 2011 | 12:00 AM

AUBURN, Wash.(AP): A man went to a casino near Seattle early yesterday looking for a woman, found her on a crowded dance floor with another man, shot them both and continued firing, wounding five others before being tackled by a security guard...

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

OSLO, Norway (AP):A gunman who opened fire on an island teeming with young people kept shooting for one and a half hours before surrendering to a SWAT team, which arrived 40 minutes after they were called, police said yesterday.

Published:Sunday | July 24, 2011 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said.

Published:Saturday | July 23, 2011 | 5:58 PM

US President Barack Obama has held an emergency meeting with congressional leaders in a last-ditch bid to avert an economically catastrophic debt default.

Published:Saturday | July 23, 2011 | 12:24 PM

A first-generation bullet train has derailed in eastern China.

Published:Friday | July 22, 2011 | 10:54 AM

Al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia vowed to keep most international aid workers away despite a worsening famine, as the U.N. warned Friday that 800,000 children could die in the region from starvation.

Published:Friday | July 22, 2011 | 10:48 AM

A Libyan rebel spokesman insisted Friday that Moammar Gadhafi stand trial at the international war crimes tribunal, despite growing Western consensus that the longtime dictator be allowed to stay in his homeland if he relinquishes power.

Published:Friday | July 22, 2011 | 10:20 AM

James Murdoch was under pressure Friday over claims he misled lawmakers about Britain's phone hacking scandal, as a lawmaker called for a police investigation and Prime Minister David Cameron insisted the media scion had "questions to answer" about what h

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 3:17 PM

A spokesman for R. Kelly says the R&B singer is out of the hospital following throat surgery this week.

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 1:34 PM

A light rain fell on a runway in the early morning darkness as vans pulled up to what one officer calls the "Cadillac" of medical evacuation aircraft.

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 1:27 PM

Atlantis and four astronauts returned from the International Space Station in triumph Thursday, bringing an end to NASA's 30-year shuttle journey with one last, rousing touchdown that drew cheers and tears.

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 1:25 PM

The 100 million tons of pyroclastic ash and rock spewed by an Andean volcano has meant hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for communities more accustomed to profiting from the dramatic mountain landscape.

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 1:23 PM

The bones of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess were exhumed under cover of darkness, burned and secretly scattered at sea after his grave became a shrine for thousands of neo-Nazis, a cemetery officia

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 1:14 PM

The last fugitive sought by the U.N.'s Balkan war crimes tribunal was seized Wednesday morning as an accomplice delivered him cash in a remote mountain forest, secretly watched by black-masked Serbian police chasing a money trail that began with a photogr

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 12:49 PM

At least 13 people have been reported dead after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Central Asia.

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 11:42 AM

The United Nations is set to declare a famine in parts of Somalia as it suffers the worst drought in more than half a century.

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Brazilian police say they have arrested 23 African men who tried to board a plane to Angola with cocaine-filled capsules in their stomachs.

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Thousands of underprivileged Indonesian newly-weds from various faiths have joined a mass reception to receive free marriage certificates that they otherwise could not afford.

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Mortar shells and artillery fired from Afghanistan killed four Pakistani paramilitary troops in a tribal region yesterday, the Pakistani army said. It was the latest in a spate of cross-border attacks that have raised tensions between Kabul and Islamabad.

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