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BELMOPAN (CMC): The opposition People's United Party (PUP) says it has filed a motion requesting a Senate inquiry into the controversy that has already led to the dismissal of Immigration Minister Elvin Penner....

Famous fashion designer Christian Louboutin has launched an app that enables users to match a shade of nude shoes to their own skin tone.

BEIJING (AP): Several hundred hospital workers in white coats and surgical masks staged a rare protest in eastern China against attacks on medical workers after a patient stabbed three of their doctors, killing one.The staffers assembled yesterday...

Rail services across much of southern Britain were cancelled for the morning rush hour as a storm continued to batter parts of England and Wales.

JERUSALEM (AP): Israel agreed yesterday to release 26 long-serving Palestinian prisoners as part of a United States-brokered deal that led to the resumption of Mideast peace talks....

NEW YORK (AP):A Chinese immigrant was arrested yesterday on five counts of murder in the deaths of his cousin's wife and her four children in a stabbing rampage in their Brooklyn home.The New York Police Depart-ment said the suspect, 25-year-old Ming...

The exit polls show Giorgi Margvelashvili with nearly 67 percent of the vote.

HAVANA (AP):William Potts burned with the desire to change the world. Nothing really turned out the way he planned.

CHINO, (AP):Three children were injured by shrapnel after a fellow elementary-school student pulled the trigger of an assault rifle mounted on a police motorcycle during a school assembly, authorities said.The AR-15 was locked to the side of the...

FERNDALE, Michigan (AP):Ounce by ounce, 30 Ferndale city workers began to change their lives one year ago.Today, they are 1,052 pounds lighter, and they're saving the city big bucks, an estimated $131,000 this year alone, in health-care costs, according...

KANO, (AP):Officials say an outbreak of cholera in Nigeria's northwest Zamfara state has infected 536 people and killed 50 in the past week.Medical director of the state hospital, Dr Labaran Anka, blamed contaminated water in rural areas that have no...