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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- An Islamist group that is competing with Tuareg nationalists for control of northern Mali is stepping up efforts to provide law and order as it tries to gain recruits and the support of local residents....

Google is fined $25,000 (£15,700) after US authorities found the internet giant stalled an investigation into its Street View mapping feature.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- China and the Philippines say they won't escalate their weeklong maritime standoff over an uninhabited shoal in the disputed South China Sea, but each still appeared to be waiting for the other side to give up Tuesday....

In Hollywood movies, they're often portrayed as danger-dodging men with dark glasses, smoothly working behind the scenes to protect the president at any cost.

China increases its holding of US debt for the second month in a row as its foreign exchange reserves continue to rise.

Emilee Neagle and her family had just 26 minutes to leave their house the night a tornado hit her town of Woodward, Oklahoma.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Getting news from a big trial once took days, moving at the speed of a carrier pigeon or an express pony. The telegraph and telephone cut that time dramatically, as did live television broadcasts....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Getting news from a big trial once took days, moving at the speed of a carrier pigeon or an express pony. The telegraph and telephone cut that time dramatically, as did live television broadcasts....

Crime spun out of control.

How computers could read human emotions

Of all the myriad scandals of the Obama administration, there is one, largely ignored by the mainstream media, that could actually be its worst.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An assassin on Sunday shot dead a former high-ranking Taliban official working on reconciling Afghanistan's insurgency with the government, a fresh blow to peace efforts on the day Kabul announced it was gradually taking the lead from the U.S.-led coalition for providing security in much of the country....

BOSTON (AP) -- Don't look for a vice presidential shocker from Mitt Romney. His choice of a running-mate - a search he announced Monday he has begun - will be guided by both his methodical, risk-averse corporate training and the lessons his party learned from Sarah Palin's selection....

HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) -- Mitt Romney says Florida. Sen. Marco Rubio is being "thoroughly vetted" for vice president....

HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Tuesday that his campaign is "thoroughly vetting" Marco Rubio as it searches for a running mate despite reports that the Florida senator is not being considered....

BOSTON (AP) -- Don't look for a vice presidential shocker from Mitt Romney. His choice of a running-mate - a search he announced Monday he has begun - will be guided by both his methodical, risk-averse corporate training and the lessons his party learned from Sarah Palin's selection....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's vice presidential search has entered a new phase: auditions....

BOSTON (AP) -- Don't look for a vice presidential shocker from Mitt Romney. His choice of a running-mate - a search he announced Monday he has begun - will be guided by both his methodical, risk-averse corporate training and the lessons his party learned from Sarah Palin's selection....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans derailed a Democratic "Buffett rule" bill Monday forcing the nation's top earners to pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes, using the day before Americans' taxes are due to defy President Barack Obama on one of his signature election-year issues....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans derailed a Democratic "Buffett rule" bill Monday forcing the nation's top earners to pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes, using the day before Americans' taxes are due to defy President Barack Obama on one of his signature election-year issues....