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SAO PAULO (AP):A would-be thief escaping from an abandoned house in Brazil where there was nothing to steal died after a window slammed down on top of him, trapping and eventually asphyxiating him.

BEIJING (AP):A man wielding a knife killed three children and a teacher in a kindergarten in eastern China, residents reported yesterday, as the government muted...

PHOENIX (AP):A small plane sputtered and crashed into a building near a north Phoenix airport yesterday, killing the pilot and sending huge clouds of smoke into the early morning sky.

A federal judge overturned California's same-sex marriage ban Wednesday in a landmark case that could eventually land before the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if gays have a constitutional right to marry in America.

Pakistan (AP): Floodwaters that devastated Pakistan's mountainous northwest surged into the heartland yesterday, submerging dozens of villages along bloated rivers whose torrents have killed at least 1,500 people...

India (AP): Government forces in Indian Kashmir fired at hundreds of people protesting New Delhi's rule over the Himalayan region, killing one person and wounding at least five others yesterday as weeks of civil unrest...

Rescue teams in northern Pakistan are still battling to reach tens of thousands of people cut off by monsoon flooding.

Russian authorities have imposed a state of emergency in about 500 towns and villages because of wildfires across the west of the country.

Teacher, four students injured in gang attackSkopje (AP):Police in Macedonia say a gang of youths wielding knives, bats and metal bars attacked a high school in the country's capital, leaving a teacher hospitalised with stab wounds and four students...

185 treated for cholera after eating infected lobsterCaracas (AP):Venezuela's health minister says the number of cholera cases in the country has risen to 185 as more people who attended a wedding in the Dominican Republic are undergoing...

Prominent Cuban rebel Guillermo Farinas, who recently ended his four-month hunger strike, has been released from hospital.

At least 90 people have been killed since yesterday due to floods caused by monsoon rains in northwest Pakistan.