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SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) -- Governors of three states got up close with "pink slime" Thursday, touching and examining treated beef at a plant and eating hamburgers made with it in a bid to persuade grossed-out consumers and grocery stores the product is safe to consume....

Football's governing body, Fifa, welcomes Brazil's progress with a law to allow the sale of alcohol in stadiums at the 2014 World Cup.

Spain cuts 27bn euros ($36bn; £22.5bn) from its budget this year and freezes public sector salaries to try to address its "extreme" economic situation.

A university in Hungary strips President Pal Schmitt of his doctorate after ruling that large parts of his thesis were plagiarised.

A five-year-old girl is among 400 children to have received assistance from the government's Forced Marriage Unit in the last year.

Iraq war veteran Jake Wood started Team Rubicon, a nonprofit that brings military veterans together to help communities hit by natural disasters. Since 2010, the group has grown to 1,400 volunteers and carried out 14 missions around the world.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Oscar Carrillo's 911 call was clear: Two young men just robbed him of his computer and backpack. At least one of them had a gun and it was pointed in Carrillo's face....

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Oscar Carrillo's 911 call was clear: Two young men just robbed him of his computer and backpack. At least one of them had a gun and it was pointed in Carrillo's face....

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Oscar Carrillo's 911 call was clear: Two young men just robbed him of his computer and backpack. At least one of them had a gun and it was pointed in Carrillo's face....

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Riot police used pepper spray and tear gas Thursday to chase protesters away from a celebration by retired soldiers marking the 1964 coup that established Brazil's long military dictatorship....

MADRID (AP) -- The European Union urged Spain on Thursday to come clean on how it plans to finance the overhaul of its banking sector, warning that uncertainty over this has contributed the recent market turmoil and the country's soaring borrowing costs....

MADRID (AP) -- Spanish workers enraged by austerity-driven labor reforms to prevent the nation from becoming Europe's next bailout victim slowed down the country's economy in a general strike Thursday, closing factories and clashing with police as the new-center right government tried to convince investors the nation isn't headed for a financial meltdown....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A witness in a landmark priest abuse trial told a jury on Thursday she felt "helpless and trapped" as a 13-year-old because a priest was fondling her when she worked weekends at the rectory....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A witness in a landmark priest abuse trial told a jury on Thursday she felt "helpless and trapped" as a 13-year-old because a priest was fondling her when she worked weekends at the rectory....

SALEM, Ohio (AP) -- Friends and relatives of the co-pilot of JetBlue Airways Flight 191 say he doesn't want to be considered a hero - but that's exactly what many are calling him....

SALEM, Ohio (AP) -- Friends and relatives of the co-pilot of JetBlue Airways Flight 191 say he doesn't want to be considered a hero - but that's exactly what many are calling him....

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is strongly criticizing President Barack Obama in a foreign policy speech that suggest the United States has been weak on Iran, ignores ally Israel and rushes to engage America's enemies....

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is strongly criticizing President Barack Obama in a foreign policy speech that suggest the United States has been weak on Iran, ignores ally Israel and rushes to engage America's enemies....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A handyman never did any harm to an office cleaner he's charged with smothering and stuffing into a high-rise air-conditioning vent, his lawyer said, but prosecutors called their evidence against Joseph Pabon crushing....