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Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs
Pope meets with abuse victims
LONDON - Pope Benedict XVI apologized Saturday to five people who were molested by priests as children in his latest effort to defuse the sex abuse crisis shak…
Pope calm after six nabbed in suspected terror plot
LONDON - Police raided a garbage depot and arrested street cleaners in a suspected terror plot against Pope Benedict XVI on Friday. Undeterred, the pontiff stuck to his message, reaching across Britain's religious …
Karl kills two people in Mexico
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) - Hurricane Karl smashed into Mexico's Gulf Coast on Friday, killing at least two people and forcing the country to shut down its only nuclear power plant and its central Gulf Coast oil platfo…
American released by Iran
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The American woman released by Iran on Tuesday after more than a year in prison said she was grateful to Iran's president for her freedom s…
Record level of US airstrikes hit militants in Pakistan
MIR ALI, Pakistan - Drone aircraft unleashed a missile attack in a lawless tribal region on the Afghan border Wednesday, keeping up the most intense period of …
Document charts Cuba's path to economic reform
HAVANA - An internal Communist Party document envisions a radically revamped Cuban economy, with a new tax code, freshly legalized private cooperatives and a s…
Karzai marks 9/11 with appeal over civilian deaths
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai marked the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the U.S. on Saturday by insisting the origins of the continued Taliban insurgency are not in Afghanist…
Anti-Quran-burning protest rages on
KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghans set fire to tires in the streets and shouted "Death to America" for a second day Saturday despite a decision by an American pastor to call off plans to burn copies of the Islamic holy b…
Mexican police neutralize car bomb
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican police carried out the controlled detonation of a car bomb Saturday in the troubled border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from Texas.
Muslims celebrate end of Ramadan
CAIRO (AP) - Far from the din and controversy roiling interfaith relations in the West, Muslims worldwide thronged mosques, cafes and parks Friday in a solemn …
Obama: Bin Laden still pursued
WASHINGTON - Nine years after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Barack Obama said the U.S. has forced Osama bin Laden "deep underground" but Americans will face …
Hearts and grenades
SENJERAY, Afghanistan - Pfc. Sean Provenzano saw it whiz by out of the corner of his eye: a dark object hurled from a rooftop as he patrolled the medieval maze…
World/Nation Briefs
Pastor cancels Quran-burning, then reconsiders
World Briefs September 9, 2010
Appeals court lets government halt torture lawsuit
Death toll, waters rising after mudslides pound Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY - Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people…