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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A massive fire at an abandoned warehouse claimed the lives of two Philadelphia firefighters after a wall collapsed inside an adjacent building where the two men were trying to halt the fire's progress, officials said Monday....

"Saturday Night Live" has fun with Mitt Romney's image.

Michael Snow: The overwhelming response to the 1940 Census release shows our hunger for family history, about a time when America was changing rapidly

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's highest court met Monday to determine the next step after both the democratically elected president and the coup leader stepped aside, leaving the helm of the West African nation vacant....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Within five months of each other, two of the men who helped make "60 Minutes" the most distinctive news show on television have died....

Two men accused of a shooting rampage that terrorised an African-American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have their bail set at $9m (£5.6m) each.

Two giant hull sections of the first of two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers being built on the Clyde have been joined together.

Two giant hull sections of the first of two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers being built on the Clyde have been joined together.

Salon.com: U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border by Glenn Greenwald:

One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too little attention. With no oversight or legal framework whatsoever, the Department of Homeland Security routinely singles out individuals who are suspected of no crimes, detains them and questions them at the airport, often for hours, when they return to the U.S. after an international trip, and then copies and even seizes their electronic devices (laptops, cameras, cellphones) and other papers (notebooks, journals, credit card receipts), forever storing their contents in government files. No search warrant is needed for any of this. No oversight exists. And there are no apparent constraints on what the U.S. Government can do with regard to whom it decides to target or why.

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- An avalanche that buried more than 120 soldiers in a Himalayan region close to India has put a spotlight on what critics say is one of world's most pointless military deployments: two poverty-wracked nations engaged in a costly standoff over an uninhabitable patch of mountain and ice....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- An avalanche that buried more than 120 soldiers in a Himalayan region close to India has put a spotlight on what critics say is one of world's most pointless military deployments: two poverty-wracked nations engaged in a costly standoff over an uninhabitable patch of mountain and ice....

Iran-based internet users report that they can no longer access the official London 2012 Olympics website, amid suspicions it has been blocked.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Misha McLamb helped keep fighter jets flying during a military career that took her halfway around the world to the Persian Gulf. But back home, the Navy aircraft specialist is barely getting by after a series of blows that undid her settled life....

Daily inspections are being carried out on Scotland's helicopter air ambulance fleet following concerns about their safety.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The U.S. Navy said Monday it has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf region amid rising tensions with Iran over its nuclear program....

A man whose father drowned trying to rescue him was reached "just in time" by a lifeboat, a crew member says.

CHICAGO (AP) -- They call this place the Back of the Yards, a neighborhood in the middle of the city once filled with acres and acres of stockyards....

CHICAGO (AP) -- They call this place the Back of the Yards, a neighborhood in the middle of the city once filled with acres and acres of stockyards....

Amitai Etzioni says there are bigger priorities than a new push for manned exploration in space

Turkey reacts angrily after Syrian fire across its border causes casualties, as a UN-brokered ceasefire plan looks increasingly in doubt.