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Vatican Looks for Signs of Alien Life
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Spider Bugs Pope in Prague
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Pope Blesses Faithful Wearing Cast
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Test Indicates Bones Are St. Paul's
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Pope Endorses Palestinian Homeland
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Israeli Critics Blast Pope Benedict
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Police say a large explosion has been heard in Pakistan's Peshawar city. Read More
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Search-and-rescue teams combed the waters of Manila Bay on Thursday for at least 27 people missing after a passenger ferry collided with a fishing boat, the coast guard said. Read More
Gaza's scars have been frozen in place since Israel waged war a year ago to subdue Hamas and stop rockets from hitting its towns. Entire neighborhoods still lie in rubble, and traumatized residents can't rebuild their lives. Read More
Japanese prosecutors filed murder and rape charges against the suspect in the slaying of a British language teacher whose body was found in a sand-filled bathtub more than two years ago, local media reports said Thursday. Read More
A daughter of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has taken refuge in the Saudi Embassy in Tehran after eluding guards who have held her, her sister and four brothers under house arrest for eight years, a Saudi-owned newspaper reported Wednesday. Read More
Four suspected members of a cartel-aligned hit squad have been arrested in the slaying of the family of a Mexican marine hailed as a hero for dying in a raid that killed a top drug lord. Read More
Authorities say three tigers escaped from a circus caravan in southwestern Mexico. Read More
David Goldman's bitter five-year battle to regain custody of his son neared conclusion Wednesday, when the child's Brazilian family halted its legal efforts as a court-ordered deadline for delivering the boy loomed. Read More
A high-profile Chinese dissident accused of subversion was tried at a two-hour hearing Wednesday that shut out foreign diplomats concerned over a case that reflects the communist government's deep suspicion of calls for political reform. Read More
A 60-year-old woman has been trampled to death by a surging crowd at a Christmas giveaway in northern Peru. Read More
Security forces and hard-line militiamen assaulted opposition protesters, beating men and women and firing tear gas, as thousands gathered in a central Iranian city for a memorial commemorating the country's most senior dissident cleric, who died this week. Read More
A plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Moarales had to make an emergency landing Wednesday because of a failure in its hydraulic system, but no one was harmed, a spokesman said. Read More
It appears a southern governor kidnapped by presumed leftist rebels on his birthday had his throat slashed within a few hours of the abduction, a Colombian investigator said Wednesday. Read More
Federal authorities at Puerto Rico's main airport have arrested eight Dominicans for allegedly trying to board flights to New York using fake identification. Read More
Passengers on American Airlines Flight 331 had endured the crowded airports and delays of holiday travel, and were moments from their Caribbean destination. Suddenly, everything seemed to spin out of control. Read More
Ecuador has revoked the broadcast license for an indigenous radio station in the Amazon region over accusations it incited violence during protests in October. Read More
North Korea, banned from selling arms by U.N. sanctions, may have gambled and lost when it dispatched 35 tons of weapons by air rather than by sea as it has done in the past. Authorities seized the plane, which may have been bound for Iran, during a refueling stop in Thailand. Read More
The Supreme Court of Canada strengthened protections for journalists and bloggers in a pair of rulings, hailed as a victory for press freedom in a country with especially stringent libel laws. Read More
Puerto Rico's top law enforcement official is resigning after less than a year in office, amid criticism about violent crime in the U.S. territory. Read More
Sports
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- New era for Cotton Bowl
- Promoter says Pacquiao-Mayweather likely off
Money
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Technology
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Health
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