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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Iraq's fugitive vice president arrived Wednesday in Saudi Arabia hours after he vowed in a television interview that he would return home....

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect opened fire on a crowded market in northeast Nigeria Wednesday, killing at least seven people in an area protected by federal troops, witnesses and the police said....

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect opened fire on a crowded market in northeast Nigeria Wednesday, killing at least seven people in an area protected by federal troops, witnesses and the police said....

CAIRO (AP) -- The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for Egypt's presidency is lobbying hard for support of ultraconservative Muslim clerics, promising them a say over legislation in the future to ensure it is in line with Islamic law, as he tries to rally the divided Islamist vote behind him....

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) -- Among the graves of Fairview Lawn Cemetery, there is one that was a magnet for bouquets and weeping girls in the 1990s. The name on the tombstone: J. Dawson....

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Two weeks ago, Somalia's National Theater reopened for the first time in 20 years for a concert that drew an audience in festive colors in a city trying to rise above war. A welcoming banner proclaimed: "The country is being rebuilt."...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) -- Among the graves of Fairview Lawn Cemetery, there is one that was a magnet for bouquets and weeping girls in the 1990s. The name on the tombstone: J. Dawson....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A Greek retiree shot himself dead in the busiest public square in Athens during morning rush hour Wednesday, leaving a note police said linked his suicide with the country's acute financial woes....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A Greek retiree shot himself dead in the busiest public square in Athens during morning rush hour Wednesday, leaving a note police said linked his suicide with the country's acute financial woes....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The discovery of a giant meat-eating dinosaur sporting a downy coat has some scientists reimagining the look of Tyrannosaurus rex....

BERLIN (AP) -- German Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass labeled Israel a threat to "already fragile world peace" in a poem published Wednesday that drew sharp rebukes at home and from Israel....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A gunman in a car assassinated a former high-ranking Taliban official working to end the decade-long war in Afghanistan, dealing a powerful blow Sunday to the fragile, U.S.-backed effort to bring peace to the country....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Authorities say a bomb has exploded at a market in northern Afghanistan, killing nine people, including a local official....

LONDON (AP) -- Fake versions of Britain's young royals have prompted a real-life media scrum when they were unveiled at Madame Tussauds....

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) -- A Moroccan court denied bail on Wednesday to a rapper charged with attacking the image of the security services in a song about police corruption....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's track and field authority suspended all athletic operations Wednesday due to severe spending cuts - a major embarrassment for the nation that hosted the Summer Olympics only eight years ago....

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- An explosion Wednesday at a ceremony at Somalia's national theater killed at least 10 people including two top sports officials in an attack by an Islamist group on a site that symbolized the city's attempt to rise from two decades of war....

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) -- One of Pakistan's most notorious extremists taunted the United States during a defiant news conference close to the country's military headquarters Wednesday, a day after the U.S. slapped a $10 million bounty on him....

SAALFELD, Germany (AP) -- You thought Easter eggs don't grow on trees? Check out Volker Kraft's garden in eastern Germany, and think again....

SAALFELD, Germany (AP) -- You thought Easter eggs don't grow on trees? Check out Volker Kraft's garden in eastern Germany, and think again....