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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A federal judge sentenced drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix on Monday to 25 years in prison for leading one of the world's most powerful cartels for more than a decade before the ring was crippled by his arrest....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Benjamin Arellano Felix seemed to get off easy considering he was one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers in the 1990s. He pleaded guilty in January to crimes that would give him no more than 25 years in prison - a lighter punishment than ordered for lower-ranking members of his once-mighty, Tijuana-based cartel....

The UK's only polar bear in a public zoo is to be joined by another bear and a new tiger is also due at the Highland Wildlife Park.

At least four Pakistani soldiers are killed after militants attacked an army checkpoint close to the Afghan border, officials say.

Stiliyan Petrov will begin treatment at a London hospital on Monday after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia.

A woman who was found guilty of killing five patients at a Texas dialysis center by injecting them with bleach will learn her fate this week.

The case generated a lot of attention in the United Kingdom, and some headlines here. One place it didn't seem to register was at the White House.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- NATO says that two service members have been killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, while two others have died of non-battle injuries....

At least 11 people are feared dead after a twin-engine plane crashed in Siberia on Monday, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency said.

A former senior official at the European Central Bank says the risk of eurozone debt woes spreading has always been overstated.

The Syrian government has agreed to begin immediately to pull its forces out of population centers and will complete its withdrawal by April 10, diplomatic officials told reporters Monday.

A Palestinian woman prisoner who had been on hunger strike for more than 40 days is released by the Israeli authorities and exiled to Gaza.

Singer Leslie Feist is named artist of the year and wins two additional prizes at this year's Juno awards, Canada's version of the Grammys.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) -- Well-traveled routes that serve as Wisconsin's vital arteries also provide a window into the competing hopes for Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Up mountainsides, through deserts and the wildest of rugged terrain, there was little that could break the serenity or solitude of Micah True as he ran. Only, perhaps, the pounding beat of his heart or the rhythm of his feet as they hit the trail, mile after mile after mile....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Up mountainsides, through deserts and the wildest of rugged terrain, there was little that could break the serenity or solitude of Micah True as he ran. Only, perhaps, the pounding beat of his heart or the rhythm of his feet as they hit the trail, mile after mile after mile....

Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill sweeps the board at the Razzie awards, which honour the year's worst films.

The recovery in the UK financial services sector is continuing, a survey suggests, with optimism improving and firms taking on new staff.

The statistical gymnastics the Obama administration uses to make the jobless numbers look better than they are.