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Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs
North Korea releases prisoner to Carter
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Looking gaunt but relieved, an American freed after nearly seven months jailed in North Korea left Pyongyang on Friday in the company of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
Carter arrives in North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Koreans welcomed Jimmy Carter back to Pyongyang with smiles, salutes and hearty handshakes as the former American president arr…
UN says 800,000 cut off by floods
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Floods have isolated about 800,000 people in Pakistan who are now only reachable by air and aid workers need at least 40 more helicopters to f…
Miners use discipline to survive until rescue
COPIAPO, Chile - Each of the 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground lived on two spoonfuls of tuna, a sip of milk, a bite of crackers and a morsel of peache…
Tree that comforted Anne Frank topples over
AMSTERDAM (AP) - The Anne Frank Museum says the monumental chestnut tree that cheered the teenage diarist while she was in hiding from the Nazis has toppled ov…
Mayhem in Manila: 9 killed on hijacked bus
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - It looked like a hostage rescue in slow motion: Police creeping up on the bus with sledgehammers and smashing first one window, then…
Iran unveils nation's first unmanned bomber
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday inaugurated the country's first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an "amba…
Van Gogh painting still not recovered
CAIRO - Egypt's culture minister on Saturday retracted his claim that police had recovered a van Gogh painting stolen from a Cairo museum, saying it was based …
Iran prepares to start up first nuclear reactor
BUSHEHR, Iran (AP) - Iranian and Russian nuclear technicians made final preparations to start up Iran's first reactor on Saturday after years of delays, an operation that will mark a milestone in what Tehran consid…
Iran begins fueling first nuclear reactor
BUSHEHR, Iran - Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel Saturday into Iran's first nuclear power plant, which Moscow has promised to safeguard to prevent material at the site from being used in any potenti…
Too young to sail around world?
PORTIMAO, Portugal (AP) - A 14-year-old Dutch girl will set off today on a controversial attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, h…
Goodbye Iraq
KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait - A line of heavily armored American military vehicles, their headlights twinkling in the pre-dawn desert, lumbered past the barbed wi…
Floods add to 'bad luck of Pakistan'
SHIKARPUR, Pakistan (AP) - The water came in the morning, quietly sweeping across the rice paddies and into the village. Within hours, it was as high as a man's shoulder and Abdul Nabi had lost his harvest, his mud…
Militants, police clash amid flooding
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Islamist militants attacked police posts in Pakistan's northwest and killed two civilians active in an anti-Taliban militia, challeng…
Colombia jet crash called a 'miracle'
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A Boeing 737 jetliner filled with vacationers crashed in a thunderstorm and broke apart as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean islan…