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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Screaming "They're going to take us down!" a JetBlue pilot stormed through his plane rambling about a bomb and threats from Iraq Tuesday until passengers on the Las Vegas-bound flight tackled him to the ground just outside the cockpit, passengers said....

DALLAS (AP) -- Among the items U.S. soldiers seized from Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Alps hideaway in the closing days of World War II were albums meticulously documenting an often forgotten Nazi crime - the massive pillaging of artwork and other cultural items as German troops marched through Europe....

Greggs food chain chief Ken McMeiken has criticised the Chancellor George Osborne on the BBC's Newsnight programme, after last week's budget introduced VAT on warm meat pies and other hot food.

The world's largest research databank for cleft lip and palate is being set up in the UK.

Playing music to patients while they go under the knife reduces their anxiety and may even improve healing, surgeons say.

The stance taken in England on replacing PIP breast implants - at the centre of a health scare - "flies in the face of common sense", MPs say.

A growing and vocal group of conservative Muslims are unhappy with dangdut music. Critics say it has been corrupted by vulgar lyrics and erotic dances over the years.

CONIFER, Colo. (AP) -- Investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine whether a controlled burn designed to minimize wildfire risk reignited and became a stubborn mountain wildfire that forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes and may have caused the deaths of two people....

Scots cyclist David Millar, banned from the Olympics for doping, says people make mistakes and should be given a second chance.

The inventor of the so-called red sea-snake Pelamis wave energy device is honoured for his contribution to the renewables sector.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Prosecutors aired dozens of confidential church documents in court Tuesday to try to prove the Philadelphia archdiocese routinely buried complaints that priests were molesting children....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Prosecutors aired dozens of confidential church documents in court Tuesday to try to prove the Philadelphia archdiocese routinely buried complaints that priests were molesting children....

HAVANA (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI prayed for freedom and renewal "for the greater good of all Cubans" before the nation's patron saint Tuesday, but the island's communist leaders quickly rejected the Roman Catholic leader's appeal for political change after five decades of one-party rule....

LAS VEGAS — Passengers onboard a JetBlue flight bound for Las Vegas on Tuesday tackled and restrained the plane's captain after he was locked out of the cockpit by crew members, screamed 'they're going to take us down' and ranted about al Qaeda and a possible bomb onboard, passengers said.

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Bottlenose dolphins in Australia organise their complex society into gang-like groups of males, according to scientists.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Fiji's military government says it is taking over control of the country's national carrier Air Pacific from Australian company Qantas....

STERLING, Va. (AP) -- As a married woman, Marisa Hannum had her family's conservatism in mind when she backed Republicans in the 2008 and 2004 presidential elections. Now divorced, she is putting her own interests first as she weighs whether to vote for Democratic President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger this fall....

STERLING, Va. (AP) -- As a married woman, Marisa Hannum had her family's conservatism in mind when she backed Republicans in the 2008 and 2004 presidential elections. Now divorced, she is putting her own interests first as she weighs whether to vote for Democratic President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger this fall....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Greenpeace Mexico says about 30 of its activists have been briefly detained by Mexico City police after several of them rappelled down the side of a hotel to hang a banner protesting a resort project....