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NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's transit agency began inspecting cranes at its construction sites throughout the city the day after one collapsed in Manhattan, killing one worker and seriously injuring another....

Researchers from three of the US's leading universities are teaming up on a $10m project to revolutionise robot production.

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) -- A Moroccan court denied bail on Wednesday to a rapper charged with attacking the image of the security services in a song about police corruption....

While Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich can sustain their bare-bones insurgent campaigns long enough to fight through the spring, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama have already moved on to the next battlefield.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's track and field authority suspended all athletic operations Wednesday due to severe spending cuts - a major embarrassment for the nation that hosted the Summer Olympics only eight years ago....

Civil authorities in Mexico City have rolled out a free app for Blackberry phones that will warn people when an earthquake is imminent.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Police at a California college pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting, authorities said....

NEW YORK (AP) -- An initial investigation into the death of a prominent French scholar whose body was found in bed inside a midtown Manhattan hotel room has turned up no obvious signs of foul play, police said Wednesday....

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are favourites but a host of the world's top players will try to upset the odds at Augusta.

The number of GPs who believe the government's health reforms in England will improve patient care is falling, a BBC poll suggests.

Fresh off a three-primary sweep that bolstered the perception he is the inevitable GOP presidential nominee, Mitt Romney on Wednesday blasted President Obama for running what he called a "hide-and-seek" campaign that lacked candor.

Dr Michael Maguire is confirmed as Northern Ireland's new Police Ombudsman.

Speaking at a White House prayer breakfast, the president says that the prayers he receives are especially meaningful.

SFGate.org: Why cell-phone tracking should require a warrant by James Temple:

The American Civil Liberties Union released a troubling report this past weekend demonstrating that law enforcement agencies around the nation routinely track personal cell phones, often without warrants. Conspicuously absent from the survey was information about the tactics of Northern California police departments.

That's because, among the roughly 20 local agencies that received open records requests, only a handful provided substantive responses, said Linda Lye, staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. The rest declined to shed light on their practices, she said.

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria recently determined that the fighting in Syria is not an "armed conflict" (PDF) -- the legal term for war -- under international law because the opposition forces are not sufficiently organized. Yet surely the protesters, dissident fighters and terrified citizens caught up in the violence in Syria believe they are at war.

A seventh patient who died at Stepping Hill Hospital is believed to have been poisoned with insulin.

BOSTON (AP) -- Lawyers for a gay and lesbian legal advocacy group have a told a federal appeals court panel that a federal law that denies benefits to married gay couples that heterosexual couples get is discriminatory....

BOSTON (AP) -- Lawyers for a gay and lesbian legal advocacy group have a told a federal appeals court panel that a federal law that denies benefits to married gay couples that heterosexual couples get is discriminatory....

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- An explosion Wednesday at a ceremony at Somalia's national theater killed at least 10 people including two top sports officials in an attack by an Islamist group on a site that symbolized the city's attempt to rise from two decades of war....

DENVER (AP) — Sam Lucas was among the first to begin calling 911 about a wildfire burning near his home on the outskirts of Denver.

But the dispatcher, already having answered a handful of calls about the fire, cut Lucas off to tell him that it was a controlled burn ...