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Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs
Militant claims subway blasts
MAKHACHKALA, Russia - A Chechen militant claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks on the Moscow subway in an Internet message posted Wednesday, hours after two more suicide bombers struck southern Russia in br…
Pope addresses sex abuse crisis
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI sees the priestly sex scandal as a "test for him and the church," his spokesman said Wednesday, as bishops around Europe used Holy Week's solemn call for penitence to announce new p…
Sarkozy joins Obama in push for Iran sanctions
WASHINGTON (AP) - With the president of France at his side, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday he hopes to have international sanctions against Iran in place "within weeks," not months, because of its continui…
'Big Bang machine' a big deal?
GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang - a success that kick-started a megabillion-dollar exp…
Subway blast kills 38 in Moscow
NEW YORK - U.S. transit agencies beefed up security as a precaution Monday after the double suicide bombing in Moscow's subway system, sending more police into stations and officers to conduct random inspections of…
Pope opens Holy Week amid sex abuse crisis
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI opened Holy Week on Sunday amid one of the most serious crises facing the church in decades, with protesters in London demanding he resign and calls in Switzerland for a central reg…
Obama slips into Afghanistan to voice US resolve
KABUL — Under elaborate secrecy, President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan on Sunday near the front lines of the increasingly bloody 8-year-old war he is expanding and affirmed America’s commitment to destroy…
World Briefs March 29, 2010
Geely to buy Volvo from Ford
Obama aides: US bond with Israel remains strong
WASHINGTON (AP) - Top advisers to President Barack Obama say the relationship between the U.S. and Israel remains strong despite sometimes blunt talk and disagreements between the two countries.
Suspected US missile kills 4
ISLAMABAD - Suspected U.S. missiles killed four people in the Pakistan's insurgent-dominated northwest Saturday, officials said. The strike is the latest in an escalating campaign targeting Taliban-linked militants…
Gas prices hold steady
NEW YORK - Motorists filling up for weekend driving caught a small break at the pump Friday, as average retail gasoline prices held steady at the same level as…
Haiti shelter plan emerging
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Aid officials say they have finally figured out where to put hundreds of thousands of Haitians who lost their homes in a cataclysmic ea…
Iraq PM Allawi turns to negotiations
BAGHDAD - The secular challenger who stunned Iraq with his razor-thin parliamentary election win turned his attention to negotiations over a future government Saturday even as supporters of the prime minister vowed…
Enlightening with darkness
LONDON - Europe's best known landmarks - including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome's Colosseum - fell dark Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beij…
Hopes fade after Korean ship sinks
BAENGNYEONG ISLAND, South Korea - Military divers plunged into the waters near South Korea's tense maritime border with North Korea on Saturday, searching in v…