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MOSCOW (AP) -- Three female punk rockers who mocked Vladimir Putin in a surprise protest inside Russia's main Orthodox church will be kept in jail, a Moscow court ruled Thursday....

New York police and FBI are excavating a Manhattan basement as they seek clues into the 1979 disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz.

The BBC's Ian Pannell reports from the town of Taftanaz where a massacre is reported to have been carried out by Syrian forces.

A small plane with an unresponsive pilot crashed in the central Gulf of Mexico on Thursday after circling above the ocean for more than two hours, but it appeared intact after hitting the water, the U.S. Coast Guard reported.

Researchers create artificial DNA and RNA molecules that interact with their natural counterparts, hinting at future "synthetic genetics".

President Ahmadinejad was forced into an impromptu meeting with a woman in the southern Iranian city of Bandar Abbas after she took the opportunity for a brief chat while sitting on the roof of his car.

All buses and lorries in the UK should be fitted with added blind-spot technology by 2015, a report suggests.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans have ignored a White House veto threat and pushed an election-year, $46 billion tax cut for most employers through a sharply divided House....

BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. envoy Kofi Annan called Monday on "every individual with a gun" in Syria to lay down arms, saying he was horrified by a weekend massacre that killed more than 100 people, including women and small children....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans in the Senate Thursday rejected cutting agency budgets below levels agreed to in last summer's budget and debt pact with President Barack Obama as a key committee kicked off action on a round of 12 annual spending bills totaling more than $1.1 trillion....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A team of police officers and FBI agents began digging up a basement in New York City on Thursday as part of a decades-old investigation into the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose case made a generation of parents afraid to send their children out alone....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- There would seem to be enough points of tension to keep Iran and its Gulf Arab rivals fully occupied: Tehran's nuclear program, accusations of Iranian meddling in Bahrain's uprising, Iranian threats to block Gulf oil shipping lanes. But it's all been overshadowed by three contested islands that Iran wants to turn into a tourist draw....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- There would seem to be enough points of tension to keep Iran and its Gulf Arab rivals fully occupied: Tehran's nuclear program, accusations of Iranian meddling in Bahrain's uprising, Iranian threats to block Gulf oil shipping lanes. But it's all been overshadowed by three contested islands that Iran wants to turn into a tourist draw....

EDCOUCH, Texas (AP) -- Masked gunmen opened fire during an illegal cockfight at a Texas ranch near Mexico early Thursday, killing three people and wounding eight others in what authorities described as a bloody massacre....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the International Monetary Fund says the officials managing Europe's debt bailout fund should consider providing financial support directly to European banks that need more capital reserves....

CNN's Anderson Cooper riffs on a staple of Courtney Stodden's grocery list, "sexy veggies."

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Coast Guard crews saw no signs Thursday that the pilot of a small plane survived when his Cessna went down in the Gulf of Mexico about three hours after two F-15 fighter jets tried to make contact with him.

Coast Guard Chief John Edwards said the plane ...

The BBC's David Sillito reports on a scale model of Stonehenge that you can bounce on.

The UN tribunal trying Rwandan genocide suspects transfers pastor Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi to Kigali - the first suspect to face justice in Rwanda.

Retired Nasa space shuttle Discovery has arrived at its new home, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center.