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Northern Ireland in uproar over lawmaker’s secret affair with teen
LONDON — The threat of renewed sectarian violence is at its highest in years. But it's a seamy affair between Northern Ireland's...
Africa’s population boom traps children in poverty
KANO, Nigeria — The boy stepped into the grubby street...
Atherosclerosis found in CT scans of Egyptian mummies
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Researchers using a CT scanner have...
U.S. expands Mexico travel warning
More violence over a wider area in Mexico has caused the U.S. State Department to expand a warning against travel to the country...
North Korea fires on South Korean island
SEOUL — North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery rounds onto a populated South Korean island, killing two and injuring 19 others after Pyongyang claimed that Seoul was readying for "an invasion," officials said...
Hundreds of thousands join Egypt protests
CAIRO — More than 200,000 protesters streamed into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday for the largest demonstration in a week of unrest against Egypt's embattled government, and international pressure on President Hosni Mubarak intensified...
Scientists digging in Tibet find woolly rhinoceros fossil believed to be...
LOS ANGELES — Searching across the Tibetan plateau...
Laos continues to block public access to deported Hmong tribesmen
WASHINGTON — A California congressman has joined human rights activists in voicing concern over the treatment of ethnic Hmong deported by Thailand late last year to their native Laos and now being confined in isolated villages inaccessible to international news ...
Hosni Mubarak resigns, military takes control after weeks of upheaval in...
CAIRO — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
