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GENEVA (AP) -- A tour bus slammed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps in a horrific accident that killed 22 school children and six adults returning to Belgium from a joyous ski vacation, police said Wednesday....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Boaters cruised along the river in downtown Chicago. Golfers smacked balls in Minnesota....

NOME, Alaska (AP) -- Mushers always pose with their lead dogs under the burled arch in Nome, Alaska, after winning the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race....

TOKYO (AP) -- A strong earthquake shook northern Japan on Wednesday evening, causing small tidal changes on its Pacific coastline but no damage or injury was reported....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's losses in Alabama and Mississippi underscore a stark reality: The core of his party does not want him....

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Judges at a war crimes tribunal convicted a Congolese warlord Wednesday of snatching children from the street and turning them into killers, in the International Criminal Court's landmark first judgment 10 years after it was established....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time in more than 200 years, someone among the editing minions of free online rival Wikipedia made an irony-free note of that fact....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A Palestinian boy accidentally struck by a bullet when militants fired in the air during a funeral died of his injuries Wednesday, family members and witnesses said....

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday told Afghan officials that recent violence - such as the incident last weekend in which a U.S. soldier allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree - will not deter the United States from carrying out its mission in Afghanistan....

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday told Afghan officials that recent violence - such as the incident last weekend in which a U.S. soldier allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree - will not deter the United States from carrying out its mission in Afghanistan....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament grilled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday over a long list of accusations, including that he mismanaged the nation's economy and defied the authority of the country's supreme leader....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's losses in Alabama and Mississippi underscore a stark reality: The core of his party does not want him....

BHOPAL, India (AP) -- On a cold winter night, more than 27 years ago, waves of a lethal gas escaped a chemical plant and swept over the ramshackle homes of this city's sleeping poor, killing thousands and sickening half a million people and making Bhopal synonymous with industrial disaster....

GENEVA (AP) -- A bus carrying Belgian students returning from a ski holiday crashed into a wall in a Swiss tunnel, killing 22 Belgian 12-year-olds and six adults, police said Wednesday....

HONOLULU (AP) -- The grisly discovery of a child's six fingers in a trash bin at a Honolulu housing complex has left residents bewildered....

HONOLULU (AP) -- The grisly discovery of a child's six fingers in a trash bin at a Honolulu housing complex has left residents bewildered....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A Palestinian health official says a Gaza boy has become the 26th victim of the latest spasm of violence between Israel and Gaza militants....

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Despite dozens of allegations of neglect and sexual abuse over the years, the U.S. State Department has scrapped a plan to require FBI-based fingerprint searches for people hosting foreign high school exchange students, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press....

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Despite dozens of allegations of neglect and sexual abuse over the years, the U.S. State Department has scrapped a plan to require FBI-based fingerprint searches for people hosting foreign high school exchange students, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is welcoming British Prime Minister David Cameron to the White House with all the pomp of a state visit as the allies stress their unity in dealing with hot spots like Iran, Syria and Afghanistan....