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A late season storm is bringing heavy snows to California's high country, a welcome influx after an especially dry winter. But snow storms are also creating avalanche conditions in Colorado and forcing some schools to close in New York....

Syria is burning -- scorched for nearly a year by tenacious political resistance, a merciless security crackdown and cries for democracy.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Two American soldiers were killed Thursday in a shooting by an Afghan soldier and a literacy teacher at a joint base in southern Afghanistan, officials said, the latest in a series of deaths as anti-Americanism rises following the burning of Qurans by U.S. soldiers....

PERM, Russia (AP) -- In Vladimir Putin's Russia, artists have done art and left politics to the politicians....

HARRISBURG, Ill. — Jeff Rann had ample warning that terrible weather was approaching before dawn. A frantic call to his wife from his mother-in-law alerted them to reports that a tornado was barreling down, and Mr. Rann heard the deafening wail of storm sirens.

He was among those who survived ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- Newt Gingrich's political career is coming full circle: The state that nourished his rise to House speaker could strike a fatal blow to his presidential ambitions - even by his own admission....

The Canadian singer cancels all performances of her Las Vegas residency until June, after suffering inflammation of her vocal cords.

Michael Wolraich says the common enemy of secular humanism unites evangelicals and conservative Catholics in a nontraditional alliance. It might not last.

LONDON (AP) -- Former British Prime Minister John Major said Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch tried to influence his government's dealings with the European Union, even hinting that the politician could lose the support of the media mogul's newspapers if he didn't change direction....

UK mobile phone companies are told by the regulator Ofcom to let their contract customers restrict how much they spend.

Relatives of police officers investigating the Soham murders in 2002 were paid by a reporter for information, an MP claims.

Female bonobos shout to “advertise” their sexual encounters with high-ranking females to other group members, say scientists.

LONDON (AP) -- Mass unemployment in Greece and Spain, where nearly half of those under 25 are out of work, sent the jobless rate across the 17-nation eurozone on Thursday to its highest level since the euro was established in 1999....

The number of independent stores grew by 2.4% last year, a survey suggests, with the beauty sector - particularly nail bars - leading the revival.

Syrian rebel fighters say they are tactically withdrawing from the besieged Baba Amr quarter of Homs, as humanitarian officials say they will enter the area on Friday.

The Sun's defence correspondent is granted bail after being quizzed by detectives from Operation Elveden investigating allegations of corrupt payments to police and public servants.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Surprise and skepticism met the announcement that North Korea would freeze most nuclear activities in exchange for food aid from the United States....

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- An American gym teacher at a school in the northern Iraqi Kurdish region was killed Thursday when a student in a crowded classroom pulled out a gun, shot the teacher and then as his terrified classmates fled the room, shot himself, officials and eyewitnesses said....

ABA, China (AP) -- China's stifling lockdown of this Tibetan town has not only been about patrolling its sleepy streets, but also policing the minds of a community at the center of self-immolation protests against Chinese rule....

ABA, China (AP) -- China's stifling lockdown of this Tibetan town has not only been about patrolling its sleepy streets, but also policing the minds of a community at the center of self-immolation protests against Chinese rule....