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A Catholic priest was shot to death by a handyman during a weekend retreat on the Mississippi coast, police said, and the suspect was arrested yesterday in Florida.

KANDAHAR (AP):President Hamid Karzai's half brother, the most powerful man in southern Afghanistan and a lightning rod for criticism of corruption in the government, was assassinated yesterday by a close associate.

Hundreds of angry marchers forced their way into the grounds of the Cypriot presidential palace in Nicosia late yesterday, during a protest over a fatal blast at a naval base that killed 12, wrecked a key power plant and forced the resignations of the defence minister and top military chief.

Four suspected U.S. missile strikes in northwestern Pakistan in less than 24 hours killed at least 42 alleged militants, an unusually heavy barrage at a time when relations between the two countries are badly strained, Pakistani intelligence officials sai

MOSCOW (AP) A Russian court yesterday handed down sentences ranging from 10 years to life in prison to 12 members of the country's most vicious neo-Nazi gang convicted of 27 hate killings, which included a videotaped decapitation of one of their own...

KENTUCKY (AP)Kentucky officials report more than 21,000 motorists were cited recently for not wearing seat belts during a special two-week enforcement period.But the Transportation Cabinet's Office of Highway Safety reports officers also made 1,347...

British police said Monday that they believe someone is trying to sabotage its investigation into the widening phone hacking scandal by leaking distracting details of the inquiry to the media.

Nigerian rescuers say a man has been found alive in the rubble of a four-story building more than two days after it collapsed in the commercial capital of Africa's most populous nation.

The US ambassador to Syria’s visit to the flashpoint city of Hama has been viewed by Syrian authorities as the US interfering in their country’s affairs.

The alleged victim in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case has filed a libel suit against the New York Post.

Executives from Rupert Murdoch's media empire, News Corporation, are reportedly cooperating with police who are probing into allegations that the phone of a slain teenage girl was hacked into by journalists from the British newspaper, News of the World.

Mexican civil protection officials have confirmed two more deaths from Tropical Storm Arlene. That brings the total official death toll from the storm to 13.