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HAVANA (AP) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos held talks with President Raul Castro on Wednesday amid a controversy over whether Cuba will be allowed to participate in a regional summit, but left indicating that an invitation is not forthcoming....

HAVANA (AP) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos held talks with President Raul Castro on Wednesday amid a controversy over whether Cuba will be allowed to participate in a regional summit, but left indicating that an invitation is not forthcoming....

HAVANA (AP) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos held talks with President Raul Castro on Wednesday amid a controversy over whether Cuba will be allowed to participate in a regional summit, but left indicating that an invitation is not forthcoming....

HAVANA (AP) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos held talks with President Raul Castro on Wednesday amid a controversy over whether Cuba will be allowed to participate in a regional summit, but left indicating that an invitation is not forthcoming....

DENVER (AP) -- Investigators following the cold-case deaths of women from more than 30 years ago have linked three of them to a convicted triple murderer who a prosecutor said Wednesday could have been responsible for as many as 20 slayings....

After talks with President Raul Castro in Havana, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says he will not invite Cuba to next month's Americas Summit.

Syria's deputy oil minister says he is resigning and joining the anti-government revolt, denouncing President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown as "brutal".

DENVER (AP) -- Investigators following the cold-case deaths of women from more than 30 years ago have linked three of them to a convicted triple murderer who a prosecutor said Wednesday could have been responsible for as many as 20 slayings....

Almost a year after the shutdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor, residents are still wondering if the area is safe.

SYDNEY (AP) -- An Australian investment banker pleaded guilty Thursday to chaining a fake bomb to a young woman's neck in a bizarre extortion attempt last year....

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Vatican has taken the extraordinary step of overruling the closing of 13 parishes by the Cleveland Diocese, a lawyer who fought the cutbacks said Wednesday....

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Vatican has taken the extraordinary step of overruling the closing of 13 parishes by the Cleveland Diocese, a lawyer who fought the cutbacks said Wednesday....

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) -- Watching 40 judges in white lab coats nibble on cheese and then spit the samples into garbage cans might not sound like the most elegant evening. But hundreds of cheese lovers have paid $25 each for a close-up view of Wednesday's World Championship Cheese Contest finals....

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon nursing assistant spent eight days in jail after a jury found her guilty of taking disturbing photos of elderly or disabled patients and posting them to her Facebook wall....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Earth's magnetic field is about to be shaken like a snow globe by the largest solar storm in five years....

Stalking is to be made a specific criminal offence, Prime Minister David Cameron announces.

A man pleads guilty to breaking into a teenage girl's home and locking her to a fake "collar bomb" in Sydney, Australia, last year.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- In a rare public criticism of the New York Police Department, the top FBI official in New Jersey said Wednesday that the department's surveillance of Muslims in the state has hindered investigations and created "additional risks" in counterterrorism....

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- In a rare public criticism of the New York Police Department, the top FBI official in New Jersey said Wednesday that the department's surveillance of Muslims in the state has hindered investigations and created "additional risks" in counterterrorism....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A sheriff's deputy, a suspected gunman and a bystander were wounded Wednesday afternoon during an exchange of gunfire outside a Tulsa courthouse, sending people scattering from a crowded plaza as an employee at a nearby library used his camera to chronicle the events....