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MEXICO CITY (AP):Mexican immigration agents say they have found 103 Central American migrants in a freight trailer left by a roadside near the US border.Mexico's National Immigration Institute said yesterday the trailer was found near Ciudad Camargo...

WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump says he goes to great lengths to hide the bald spot revealed in a recent photo.Speaking before the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday, Trump turned around onstage and smoothed the back of his...

BEIRUT (AP):A new wave of deadly Syrian government bombardment in the opposition-held eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus yesterday killed 13 people, as world leaders and aid groups called for an end to the carnage that has left hundreds of...

MONTREAT, NC (AP):The Rev Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counsellor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, died yesterday. He was 99.Graham, who...

LONDON (AP):Once a month, accountant Michael Byrne pulls on his rubber boots and makes his way to a spot on the banks of the River Thames.He carefully marks out a one-square metre (11-square foot) patch and, with gloved hands, catalogues each bit of...

BUHERA, Zimbabwe (AP):Thousands of people in Zimbabwe yesterday gathered for the burial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, whose death from cancer exacerbated divisions within a movement preparing for elections this year.A hearse carrying...

BANGKOK (AP):A Thai court yesterday granted legal custody of 13 babies carried by surrogate mothers to a secretive Japanese millionaire who is their biological father, reviving a bizarre tale that captured tabloid headlines four years ago, but...

SAO PAULO (AP):Brazil's lower house has approved a decree to put the military in charge of Rio de Janeiro's security forces amid a spike in violence.The military took over last Friday, but the presidential decree still needs congressional approval....

Heavy rains triggered the partial collapse of a huge mound of garbage in Mozambique's capital yesterday, killing as many as 17 people who were buried by debris.Authorities believe more bodies could be buried at the Hulene garbage dump on the...