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NAJAF, Iraq (AP) -- An Iraqi-American woman found bludgeoned to death in her California home last week, with a threatening note left beside her body, was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday. Relatives wept uncontrollably by her graveside and her father asked God to extoll revenge on those responsible for her death....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A cruise ship with about 1,000 people on board was drifting in waters south of the Philippines on Saturday after a fire disabled its engines, the Philippine coast guard said. Five crew members were injured....

Tuareg rebels in Mali attack the strategic northern garrison town of Gao with heavy weapons, hours after another town, Kidal, fell to their control.

PARIS (AP) -- Governments around the world expelled Syrian ambassadors and diplomats Tuesday, an unusual, coordinated blow to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime following a gruesome massacre that the United Nations said involved close-range shootings of scores of children and parents in their homes....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia has growing concerns about the conflict in Syria, but it will continue to oppose the outside use of force, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Saturday....

The urchins were startled. "Hey, let's go outside and play some baseball," I said.

SYDNEY (AP) -- Sydney's iconic Harbor Bridge and Opera House has gone dark as Australians switched off lights around the country for an hour Saturday as part of a global effort to shine a spotlight on climate change....

SYDNEY (AP) -- Sydney's iconic Harbor Bridge and Opera House has gone dark as Australians switched off lights around the country for an hour Saturday as part of a global effort to shine a spotlight on climate change....

A man targeted in a racially motivated arson attack in Antrim overnight says his wife and nine-month-old son were left in tears by the incident.

Neighbours who saw a woman after she was seriously burned in a petrol accident are offered support from social workers.

The flare on the crippled North Sea oil platform at the centre of a gas leak has extinguished itself, the oil company Total confirms.

HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) -- Suspected Muslim insurgents set off coordinated bomb blasts as shoppers gathered for lunch Saturday in a busy hub of Thailand's restive south, killing eight people and wounding 68, officials said....

A cruise ship disabled by a fire has been repaired and is sailing slowly from Philippines waters to Malaysia, its operator says.

The Queen's wax figure at Madame Tussauds is changed at least every ten years and the latest impression of Her Majesty will be unveiled this May to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee.

TORONTO (AP) -- They clutter your dresser and cost too much to make. They're a nuisance and have outlived their purpose....

TORONTO (AP) -- They clutter your dresser and cost too much to make. They're a nuisance and have outlived their purpose....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Keith Olbermann is looking for a new job after less than a year as a talk show host at Current TV....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Keith Olbermann is looking for a new job after less than a year as a talk show host at Current TV....

A woman is arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a man who was rescued from a canal in Wiltshire dies.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean officials said Saturday that they will continue working with the U.S. to reduce oil imports from Iran after President Barack Obama greenlighted potential sanctions against countries that continue to buy Iranian oil....