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Amazon starts pre-orders for its touch-screen e-reader in Europe, but has no update on a local launch for its Kindle Fire tablet.

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) -- The Vermont prep school teacher whose toddler was found alone in her idling SUV over the weekend was killed, a medical examiner ruled Tuesday as an autopsy confirmed a body found along an isolated stretch of road was indeed hers....

Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli gatecrashes the press conference unveiling the new Inter Milan coach.

CONIFER, Colo. (AP) -- The bodies of a man and a woman have been found at one of 16 homes destroyed by a wildfire that has forced hundreds to flee the mountainous area southwest of Denver, authorities said Tuesday. A third person was missing from the same area where the man and woman were found....

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) -- The captain of a JetBlue aircraft yelled about a bomb and had to be locked out of the cockpit and restrained Tuesday as the Las Vegas-bound flight was diverted to Texas, passengers said....

The leading national organization opposing same-sex marriage has sought to split the Democratic Party base by pitting African-Americans and Hispanics against gay-rights groups, according to confidential strategy memos made public by court officials in Maine....

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) -- Anti-abortion lawmakers want the Kansas Legislature to investigate after a former abortion provider discarded hundreds of patients' medical records in a recycling bin outside a Kansas City-area elementary school....

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) -- Brian Ramler longs for the days when his marina on Lake Huron's Georgian Bay could handle 50 boats - before water levels began dropping steadily more than a decade ago. He can accommodate fewer than half as many now and wants the government to help bring the water back....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the importation of a drug used in executions on grounds the Food and Drug Administration ignored the law in allowing it into this country....

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- The millions of students who take the SAT or ACT each year will have to submit photos of themselves when they sign up for the college entrance exams, under a host of new security measures announced Tuesday in the aftermath of a major cheating scandal on Long Island....

Amid widespread outcry over death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, the hoodie has become a symbol of social injustice.

HAVANA (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI stressed themes of freedom and change as he prayed before a powerful symbol of the Cuban nation ahead of a visit with the island's president on Tuesday. Communist leaders had a quick response: No to political reform....

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudan's military bombed an oil field in South Sudan on Tuesday, a South Sudan official said, as a dangerous flare-up in border violence appeared to scuttle plans for a presidential summit between the two countries....

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho's Republican-controlled Legislature is backing away from a bill requiring that women seeking an abortion get an ultrasound before the procedure....

BEIRUT (AP) -- The uprising in Syria is swiftly transforming into a civil war that could lay waste to the country, and the fallout from the year-old conflict already is bleeding outside the country's borders....

The parents of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager shot dead in Florida last month, attend a congressional forum on racial profiling.

STERLING, Va. (AP) -- Democrats and Republicans are racing to woo single women, sign them up to vote and inspire them to cast a ballot on Election Day....

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — More than 1,000 private abortion records from a defunct clinic have been found discarded in a recycling bin outside an elementary school near Kansas City, Kan., prompting a police investigation and outrage from people on both sides of the abortion debate.

The patient records found ...

A team of 10 firefighters is tackling a grass fire which spread to a house, garage and electricity poles in the Swansea Valley.

Pope Benedict XVI meets Cuban President Raul Castro on the second day of his visit to the communist-run island, and is to meet Fidel Castro later.