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MEXICO CITY (AP):A FORMER Mexican presidential candidate was freed Monday, seven months after his kidnapping, telling reporters outside his Mexico City home that he is well and forgives his captors.Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, a top Mexican political...

LAKEWOOD, Ohio (AP): THE FIRST United States (US) face-transplant patient has said a donor saved her from a life of eating and breathing through a tube, but until this weekend she knew her only as a woman who died in 2008....

Thousands of flights and train rides have been cancelled across Europe because of snow and ice, leaving many travellers stranded.

PARIS (AP)Heavy snow and freezing temperatures shut down European runways and slowed road traffic Sunday, cancelling flights and leaving cars skidding down icy streets.Heavy snow blanketed Paris, a rarity that has occurred several times in recent weeks...

LOS ANGELES (AP): Weather permitting, sky gazers in North and Central America and a tiny sliver of South America will boast the best seats to this year's only total eclipse of the moon just days before Christmas....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP):Taliban fighters struck at Afghan security forces yesterday, storming an army recruiting centre in the north that sparked a day-long gun battle, and ambushing a bus carrying army officers in the capital - the first major attack...

MINSK, Belarus (AP): Thousands of opposition supporters in Belarus tried to storm the main government building to protest what the opposition claims was large-scale vote-rigging in yesterday's presidential election...

Talk about a Grinch: Police say someone trying to steal copper wire burned down the city of Birmingham's 35-foot-tall Christmas tree in the middle of a city park.

When they deck the halls in opulent Abu Dhabi, it comes with gold ornaments and gem-studded bows on a towering Christmas tree.

Bethlehem has seen a record number of tourists this year and its thousands of hotel rooms are fully booked for Christmas week, thanks to steadily declining violence in the West Bank over the past few years.

Gold-wrapped chocolate Easter rabbits and Christmas reindeer are free to roam the European Union, unshackled by trademarks that some chocolate producers have tried to impose on them.