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Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokeswoman Marjorie Anders confirmed the fatalities in Sunday morning's crash in the Bronx but couldn't give a number.

The Chinese government has declared victory in cleaning up what it considers rumours, negativity and unruliness from online discourse, while critics say the moves have suppressed criticism of the government and ruling Communist Party.

A plane crash near the remote western Alaska village of Saint Marys killed four of the 10 people aboard, including an infant boy, an Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman said yesterday.

Egyptian security forces, firing tear gas and water cannons last Friday, broke up anti-government demonstrations by Islamists defying a draconian new law restricting protests.

NEW YORK (AP): The big balloons soared along with the crowd's spirits yesterday as the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade made its way through the streets of New York City....

WASHINGTON (AP): Some immigrants who have stayed in the United States longer than they were allowed can soon apply to keep living in the US under another immigration policy change quietly authorised by the Obama administration....

SOFIA, (AP):Bulgarian authorities say they are constructing a fence on a 30-kilometre (19-mile) stretch of the country's 274-kilometre (171-mile) border with Turkey in an effort to stop illegal...

KANO (AP):Islamic police shouted "God is great" as an earthmover shattered 240,000 bottles of beer in a widening crackdown in Nigeria's northern city of Kano.Alcohol is banned under Shariah law imposed here in 2001 but authorities had turned a blind eye...

JOHANNESBURG, SA (AP):'Tis the season to be jolly, jolly critical, that is, in the South African city of Cape Town.The mayor, Patricia de Lille, has been criticised by political opponents for encouraging people to mark the holiday season by writing...

Latvia's Prime Minister, Valdis Dombrovskis' unexpected announcement, which automatically triggers the fall of the entire center-right government, followed his meeting with President Andris Berzins.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): More than 100 additional people have either been deported to Haiti, or left on their own accord, from neighbouring Dominican Republic after an elderly Dominican couple was killed, authorities and a spokesman for a migrant advocacy group said Monday....

Local officials in South Africa see sugar daddies as a major factor in the spread of Aids. South Africa has more people living with HIV than any other country.