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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A man armed with three knives went on a stabbing spree in a downtown office building on Wednesday, starting in the admissions office of a technical school and injuring four people, including an employee of the state attorney general, authorities said. The rampage stopped when he was shot by a police officer on the street in front of the building just blocks from the state Capitol....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A man armed with three knives went on a stabbing spree in a downtown office building on Wednesday, starting in the admissions office of a technical school and injuring four people, including an employee of the state attorney general, authorities said. The rampage stopped when he was shot by a police officer on the street in front of the building just blocks from the state Capitol....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A man armed with three knives went on a stabbing spree in a downtown office building on Wednesday, starting in the admissions office of a technical school and injuring four people, including an employee of the state attorney general, authorities said. The rampage stopped when he was shot by a police officer on the street in front of the building just blocks from the state Capitol....

SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) -- A tour bus carrying schoolchildren home from a class trip slammed head-on into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps, killing 22 Belgian students and six adults and instantly changing a joyous skiing vacation into a tragedy spanning several European nations....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The Mexican army said Wednesday that it has made a record seizure of opiates, about 3.6 metric tons of a dark liquid that contains heroin....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wednesday's giant state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife - the biggest ever thrown by Barack and Michelle Obama - dished up a potent mix of celebrity glam, corporate heft and political money under a giant party tent on the South Lawn. It is an election year, after all....

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- The U.S. serviceman suspected in the massacre of more than a dozen Afghan civilians is a 38-year-old father of two who served three tours in Iraq and is based in Washington state. Still, days after the slayings, the military has kept under wraps one of the most salient details - his name....

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) -- A man opened fire Wednesday outside a Texas courthouse where he was on trial in a family dispute, killing an elderly woman and wounding three other people, including a daughter he ran over with a pickup truck as he tried to escape, authorities said....

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire....

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire....

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire....

One of China's best-known politicians and likely leadership candidates Bo Xilai is removed from his post as a party chief, the state news agency reports, following a scandal.

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas on Wednesday asked a federal panel weighing its photo-ID requirement for voters to let the state challenge directly the constitutionality of a part of the Voting Rights Act that has required mostly Southern jurisdictions to get Washington to sign off on election changes.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House extended state dinner invitations to more than 30 of President Barack Obama's top fundraisers, including a handful of donors to an independent political group backing his re-election effort, an Associated Press review has found....

A medieval madrigal believed to be the oldest song in the English language enjoys a revival from an unlikely source.

Until now, Wisconsin has been ground zero in the spreading desire to reconsider the costly prerogatives of public-sector unions.

In the wake of Goldman Sachs Vice-President Greg Smith's resignation, BBC News spoke to one of his former colleagues, Peter Kizenko, who left to set up a Russian spa.

Prince Harry has admitted that, when it comes to girls, the need to meet someone who "would be willing to take on a role" weighs on his mind.

Councils spent £90m repairing 1.7 million potholes across England and Wales last year but there is still a massive backlog, a survey suggests.

Thames Water is taking months to repair leaks despite claiming an average repair time of five days, a BBC investigation finds.