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Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs
Passenger ferry freed from Baltic Sea ice
STOCKHOLM (AP) - A passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board broke free early Friday from heavy pack ice that had trapped it for hours in the Baltic Se…
Violence mars early voting in Iraq
BAGHDAD - A string of deadly blasts shattered an early round of voting in Iraq Thursday, killing 17 people and highlighting the fragile nature of the country's…
Huge wave kills 2 on cruise ship
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - A 26-foot wave smashed into a cruise ship carrying nearly 2,000 people in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, smashing glass windshields and killing two passengers, according to officials and ne…
2 suspended after children radioed pilots at JFK
NEW YORK - As planes waited to take off from Kennedy Airport, the jargon-packed radio chatter between controllers and pilots was interrupted by a young boy's voice: "JetBlue 171, cleared for takeoff."
Tsunami sweeps away entire towns on Chilean coast
TALCAHUANO, Chile (AP) - When the shaking stopped, Marioli Gatica and her extended family huddled in a circle on the floor of their seaside wooden home in this gritty port town, listening to the radio by a lantern'…
Chile quake death toll hits 708
CONCEPCION, Chile - Heroism and banditry mingled on Chile's shattered streets Sunday as rescuers braved aftershocks digging for survivors and the government sent soldiers and ordered a nighttime curfew to quell loo…
Fierce storms in Europe kill 51
PARIS - A violent late winter storm with fierce rain and hurricane-strength winds ripped across western Europe on Sunday, battering France and four other countries, leaving at least 51 people dead.
Philippines: Suspected militant attack kills 11
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants raided a village in the southern Philippines early Saturday, killing 11 people in the country's worst militant attack on civilians in nine years.
Chile struck by one of strongest earthquakes ever
TALCA, Chile - One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile on Saturday and sent a tsunami racing half…
Troops clear last pockets of resistance in Marjah
MARJAH, Afghanistan - Marines and Afghan troops cleared the last major pocket of resistance in the former Taliban-ruled town of Marjah on Saturday - part of an offensive that is the run-up to a larger showdown this…
Brazil's president says Fidel Castro looking stronger
By WILL WEISSERT/Associated Press writer
Parents: All Haitian 'orphans' had relatives
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Not one of the 33 children a U.S. Baptist group tried to remove from Haiti is an orphan, The Associated Press has learned.
Fighting rages as Karzai urges restraint from NATO
MARJAH, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields of Marjah on Saturday under withering gunfire from Taliban fighters shooting from mudbrick homes and compounds where families hud…
Shipwrecked students feared remote death at sea
RIO DE JANEIRO - When wind and rough seas drove the Canadian sailing ship carrying dozens of teenage students to lean precariously to one side, the captain fig…
U.S. Marines seize Taliban headquarters
MARJAH, Afghanistan - After a fierce gunfight, U.S. Marines seized a strongly defended compound Friday that appears to have been a Taliban headquarters - compl…