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Rescue efforts continue after shock shakes China
Rescuers pulled survivors from the rubble Friday who had been buried for four days as a strong aftershock sparked landslides ...
Chinese rescuers still finding quake survivors
Piles of broken concrete rose seven stories high and a few buildings stood askew, knocked at odd angles. People cried out the ...
Bin Laden: Palestinian cause at heart of al-Qaeda's mission
Osama bin Laden vowed in a new audio message released Friday to keep fighting Israel to liberate Palestinians, claiming this ...
U.S. blamed for ambush on Iranians in Iraq
Iran angrily blamed the United States on Friday after at least three of its diplomats were wounded in a Baghdad shooting, saying ...
Pakistan protests suspected U.S. missile strike
Pakistan's army lodged a formal protest Friday to "allied forces" in neighboring Afghanistan over a suspected U.S. missile strike ...
Report: Toll in Burma cyclone nears 78,000
The United Nations said Friday that severe restrictions by Burma's military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark ...
Commission sets Zimbabwe runoff for June
An election runoff between Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai runoff will be held June ...
U.S. to send 500,000 tons of food to N. Korea
The United States says it has reached a deal with North Korea to provide 500,000 metric tons of food aid to the closed-off communist ...
Tropical storm lashes Philippines, stranding hundreds
About 300 passengers on a ferry stranded in rough seas for more than 24 hours were safely carried to land by small boats late ...
Last 9 cult members leave Russian cave
The nine remaining members of a Russian doomsday cult holed up for months awaiting the end of the world abandoned their cave ...
Pope voices his opposition to gay unions
Pope Benedict XVI is pressing his opposition to gay unions.
Nigerians ID bodies after pipeline fire kills dozens
Rescuers tried Friday to reunite family members sent fleeing by a pipeline fire than killed 100 people the previous day as residents ...
French arrest 10 in connection with terror probe
Authorities in France, Germany and the Netherlands on Friday detained at least 10 people suspected of helping to fund al-Qaeda-linked ...
Report: Bin Laden says Palestinian cause fuels war
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said in a new audio message released Friday that the terrorist organization will continue its ...
Einstein letter on religion sells for $404K
A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish" ...