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ATHENS - Greek public transport was halted, flights grounded and state hospitals left with emergency staff only on Thursday as workers held yet another ...
WASHINGTON - On Christmas Day, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives ...
MEXICO CITY - Eight journalists have been kidnapped in a Mexican border city in a two-week span in a wave of abductions unprecedented in ...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a sushi chef and a Santa Monica restaurant on allegations that they served illegal and ...
YANGON, Myanmar - A decision by Myanmar's military junta to bar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from upcoming elections drew sharp criticism from ...
SYDNEY, Australia - An elephant calf that was believed to have died during a nine-day labour is feeding itself and has earned the nickname ...
JACKSON, Miss. - A school decided Wednesday not to host a prom dance after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with ...
MEXICO CITY - Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, jumping past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the ...
SANTIAGO, Chile - President Michelle Bachelet leaves office Thursday with a chunk of her country in ruins - and her popularity in the clouds.
Despite ...
BEIJING - Like the United States, China is having its own tea party movement, but this one has a very different agenda.
Police have long ...
CATSKILL, N.Y. - Prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson ...
NEW YORK - A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have ...
An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice-President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ...
WASHINGTON - A New York congressman resigns amid accusations he sexually harassed his male employees during tickle fights.
Another top Democrat, also a New Yorker, ...
VATICAN CITY - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the ...
