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The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to kill a controversial proposal pushed by Republicans that would have allowed employers to opt out of providing health care coverage they disagree with on moral grounds.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is paying tribute to the nation's fallen warriors on Memorial Day, attending a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and honoring those who died during the Vietnam War....

Andrew Breitbart, the US conservative author and activist known for publishing embarrassing "sting" videos of left-wing groups, dies, aged 43.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Officials say one student has died and another is hospitalized after a stabbing at a Chicago school for children with behavioral and emotional needs....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has made his first live communication with his country's news media since surgery to remove a possibly cancerous tumor....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Conservative media publisher and activist Andrew Breitbart, who was behind investigations that led to the resignations of former Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York and former U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, has died in Los Angeles at age 43....

The world famous penguin parade at Edinburgh zoo is going to be cancelled for the next three months.

The son of a British man on remand in a US jail on charges of exporting parts for Iranian missiles, said his father has been locked up for 23 hours a day with nothing to read or write on.

A woman in Bristol gives birth to quadruplets on "leap day", 29 February.

Islamist militants make a surprise attack on a south-western town used by government-backed Somali troops as a base to launch assaults.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has defeated a Republican effort to roll back President Barack Obama's policy on contraception insurance coverage....

A group of American and British pro-democracy activists accused of fomenting unrest in Egypt will be leaving the country "shortly," an Interior Ministry spokesman said Thursday.

Mark Lawrenson goes head-to-head with rapper Tinchy Stryder

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- In another sign of warming relations between two wartime foes, a senior North Korean nuclear negotiator will attend a security conference in the United States, a person with knowledge of the negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang told The Associated Press on Thursday....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Walt Disney World is retooling an Epcot exhibit on childhood obesity after critics complained it was insensitive to obese kids and reinforced stereotypes....

ORLANDO, Fla. — Walt Disney World is retooling an Epcot exhibit on childhood obesity after critics complained it was insensitive to obese kids and reinforced stereotypes.

The interactive exhibit, Habit Heroes, featured animated fitness superheros Will Power and Callie Stenics and super-sized villains Snacker and Lead Bottom, who eat junk ...

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy performs the first reading of a poetic tribute to members of a sporting club founded on the Olympic Park.

PHILADELPHIA — A woman arrested in connection with an illegal buttocks-enhancement injection that left a patient sickened last month is considered a "person of interest" in the death of a tourist who underwent a similar procedure last year, police said Thursday.

Padge Victoria Windslowe, 42, was arrested Wednesday night as ...

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) -- The worst moments for Gordon and Eleanor Bradwell on their disabled cruise ship came immediately after the wail of the general alarm. Eleanor quickly left lunch to get a life vest in the couple's cabin. Gordon was pushed in another direction. The scent of smoke grew stronger. Then the lifeboats dropped....

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) -- The worst moments for Gordon and Eleanor Bradwell on their disabled cruise ship came immediately after the wail of the general alarm. Eleanor quickly left lunch to get a life vest in the couple's cabin. Gordon was pushed in another direction. The scent of smoke grew stronger. Then the lifeboats dropped....