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CHICAGO (AP) -- A nephew of Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade was one of 13 men shot - two fatally - during a violent six-hour stretch in Chicago, another indication that violence is on the rise in the nation's third-largest city....

There would be no special prosecutor, no grand jury, no release of 911 tapes in the Trayvon Martin case had thousands across the national not mobilized, organized and took to the streets to demand justice, Roland Martin says.

BEIJING (AP) -- China is shuttering more than a dozen websites, penalizing two popular social media sites and detaining six people for circulating rumors of a coup that rattled Beijing in the midst of its worst high-level political crisis in years....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The four candidates for Mexico's presidency officially launched their campaigns for the July 1 election on Friday, all of them promising change....

SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) -- Residents of a tight-knit eastern Montana town mixed calls for justice with sorrowful relief Friday as they mourned a high school teacher who was kidnapped, strangled and her body buried in a shallow grave discovered after two months of searching....

SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) -- Residents of a tight-knit eastern Montana town mixed calls for justice with sorrowful relief Friday as they mourned a high school teacher who was kidnapped, strangled and her body buried in a shallow grave discovered after two months of searching....

A creation of Berlin artist Kulja Kugler, giant robot bass player can play two songs.

A visual record of the London 2012 Olympic Games featuring sculpture, painting and photography from 10 leading UK artists goes on show in Oxford.

More than 450 people attend the funeral of vicar John Suddards at the church in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, where he was the parish priest.

A mother and her three-year-old son are named by neighbours after police arrest a man on suspicion of murder at a house in Gwynedd.

Former Argentine President Carlos Menem will stand trial accused of obstructing an inquiry into the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural centre that killed 85 people.

Anti-Islamic organisations from across Europe are holding a rally in the Danish city of Aarhus.

Former Soviet spy Leonid Shebarshin, who was very briefly head of the KGB, was found dead Friday in his apartment in Moscow, an apparent suicide, officials said.

Authorities in the northern Mexican state of Sonora have arrested eight people accused of killing two boys and one woman as human sacrifices for Santa Muerte -- the saint of death -- officials said Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. government's biosecurity advisers said Friday they support publishing research studies showing how scientists made new easy-to-spread forms of bird flu because the studies, now revised, don't reveal details bioterrorists could use....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. government's biosecurity advisers said Friday they support publishing research studies showing how scientists made new easy-to-spread forms of bird flu because the studies, now revised, don't reveal details bioterrorists could use....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. government's biosecurity advisers said Friday they support publishing research studies showing how scientists made new easy-to-spread forms of bird flu because the studies, now revised, don't reveal details bioterrorists could use....

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) -- Investigators believe two people missing after a large fire ripped through a marina in northwest Washington state were trapped aboard a burning boat that sank during the blaze....

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A citrus disease that has killed millions of citrus trees and cost growers billions of dollars across Florida and Brazil has been detected in California, despite the industry's best efforts to keep it at bay....

HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) -- Eight people have been arrested for allegedly killing two 10-year-old boys and a 55-year-old woman in ritual sacrifices by the cult of La Santa Muerte, or Saint Death, prosecutors in northern Mexico said Friday....