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EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Environmental groups warned Thursday they fear an oil spill could be triggered at a North Sea offshore platform that has been leaking highly pressurized gas since the weekend....

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HAVANA (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI demanded more freedom for the Catholic Church in communist-run Cuba and preached against "fanaticism" in an unusually political sermon Wednesday before hundreds of thousands at Revolution Plaza, with President Raul Castro in the front row....

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- An inquest has ruled there was no foul play in the fiery death of a top power broker in President Robert Mugabe's party, state media reported Thursday, quoting the attorney general as saying the case shrouded in suspicion is now closed....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Newly elected Israeli opposition leader Shaul Mofaz says he will shrink Israel's economic inequality....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- At first, the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager at the hands of a white neighborhood watch volunteer was playing out like many previous tragedies that cut short the lives of young black men....

MADRID (AP) -- Spanish workers angry over labor market reforms formed boisterous picket lines outside wholesale markets, some TV stations went off the air and car factories were all but idled in the early stage of a general strike Thursday....

CHICAGO (AP) -- With Republicans locked in a contentious and expensive primary, President Barack Obama has spent a small fortune in recent months to build and maintain a campaign operation that is larger, more diverse and more focused on November's general election than any of his opponents' organizations....

RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (AP) -- No one recalls JetBlue Airways captain Clayton Osbon coming unhinged before. Not the airline that let him fly for 12 years, the neighbors in his secluded waterfront community or the friends he tried selling weight-loss shakes to on the side....

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- The main producer of "pink slime" and the politicians defending the company will have a hard time persuading consumers and grocery stores to accept the product, even if the processed beef trimmings are as safe as the industry insists....

GARRETSON, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota winemaker Dave Greenlee exudes pride as he pours a sample of a 2011 Marquette nearly ready for bottling. Wine connoisseurs who favor vintages from Bordeaux or Napa Valley might not have heard of the grape, but Marquette has been exciting Northern winemakers since a Vermont vintage won best-in-show red at a 2009 cold-climate wine competition....

GARRETSON, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota winemaker Dave Greenlee exudes pride as he pours a sample of a 2011 Marquette nearly ready for bottling. Wine connoisseurs who favor vintages from Bordeaux or Napa Valley might not have heard of the grape, but Marquette has been exciting Northern winemakers since a Vermont vintage won best-in-show red at a 2009 cold-climate wine competition....

RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) -- Family members and activists are raising their voices to seek answers in a homeless woman's death in a jail cell after being arrested for refusing to leave a St. Louis hospital where she had sought treatment for a sprained ankle....

RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) -- Family members and activists are raising their voices to seek answers in a homeless woman's death in a jail cell after being arrested for refusing to leave a St. Louis hospital where she had sought treatment for a sprained ankle....

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) -- Attorneys are expected to lay out their case in the trial of a Kansas man accused of killing a 14-year-old girl and burning her body at the asphalt plant where he worked....

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) -- Attorneys are expected to lay out their case in the trial of a Kansas man accused of killing a 14-year-old girl and burning her body at the asphalt plant where he worked....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home from Cuba after a five-day round of radiation therapy and says the cancer treatments are going well....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- The Tibetan who burned himself alive on the eve of a visit by China's president left behind a letter that urged the world to stand up for his homeland, activists said, while Indian authorities detained more Tibetans on Thursday in the Indian capital....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- The leaders of the five fast-growing BRICS powers are meeting in New Delhi to harness their collective clout on the global stage and push plans for a new development bank and for trade in each other's currencies....

LACROSSE, Wis. (AP) -- Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is attacking rival Rick Santorum as a friend of "big labor" as they campaign in Wisconsin, where a fight over labor unions is fueling a bitter recall effort aimed at Gov. Scott Walker....