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Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs
Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered
TORONTO (AP) - Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in t…
Plane crash kills 152 in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - A passenger jet that officials suspect veered off course in monsoon rains and thick clouds crashed into hills overlooking Pakistan's capital Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board and scattering bod…
U.S. troops brace for fallout from disclosures
WASHINGTON (AP) - Operatives inside Afghanistan and Pakistan who have worked for the U.S. against the Taliban or al-Qaida may be at risk following the disclosu…
France declares war on al-Qaida
PARIS (AP) - France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker …
Twin car bombs kill 25 pilgrims in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) - Two car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims during a religious festival in the holy city of Karbala killed 25 people on Monday, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. Sunni extremists are suspected.
World/Nation Briefs July 26, 2010
Flooding causes millions in damage in Iowa
US holds drills off Korea, Pyongyang talks war
ABOARD USS GEORGE WASHINGTON - Fighter jets buzzed the skies and submarines cruised underwater Sunday as a flotilla of U.S. and South Korean warships led by a nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier began exercises that …
Iran says it has 100 vessels for each US warship
TEHRAN, Iran - The former naval chief for Iran's Revolutionary Guard said the country has set aside 100 military vessels to confront each warship from the U.S. or any other foreign power that might pose a threat, a…
2 US Navy service members missing
KABUL, Afghanistan - Two U.S. Navy service members disappeared in a dangerous area of eastern Afghanistan, prompting a massive air and ground search and appeals on local radio stations for their safe return, NATO a…
US aircraft carrier ups pressure on N. Korea
BUSAN, South Korea - A massive nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier readied Saturday for maneuvers with ally South Korea in a potent show of force that North Kore…
Panic at music festival kills 18
DUISBURG, Germany (AP) - Crowds of people streaming into a techno music festival surged through an already jammed entry tunnel, setting off a panic that killed 18 people and injured 80 at an event meant to celebrat…
Rattling the sabre again
HANOI, Vietnam - North Korea inflamed tensions over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship by threatening the United States and South Korea today with "n…
Tropical Storm Bonnie moving toward oil spill
NASSAU, Bahamas - Tropical Storm Bonnie steamed through the central Bahamas on Thursday night while tracking a course that could take it over the site of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
China flooding kills 701 in worst toll in a decade
BEIJING (AP) - Flooding this year has killed 701 people, left 347 missing and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage, the worst toll across the board that China has seen in a decade, a senior Chinese official…
Divers find 200-year-old champagne in wreck
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Now that's some vintage bubbly.