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What if members of Congress were forced to compete, a la The Hunger Games?

LEON, Mexico (AP) -- There was little excitement in Leon in the hours before the pope arrived....

MIAMI (AP) -- Wearing a hoodie. Listening to music and talking on his cellphone. Picking up Skittles for his soon-to-be stepbrother. Friends say that's how they would have imagined 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a Sunday afternoon....

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh pose for wedding pictures with a newlywed couple during a Jubilee visit to Manchester.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton is on pole for the Malaysian GP, with Jenson Button second and Michael Schumacher third.

A fishing trawler swept away more than a year ago by a tsunami off the east coast of Japan has been spotted floating near British Columbia, Canadian officials said Friday.

Benedict XVI begins his first visit Mexico

Disabled parents face both challenges and some strange attitudes from other people, one father writes.

Seventeen major food and drink companies firms promise to cut calories in their products to help tackle obesity.

Verdi's opera, La Traviata, is being staged on a massive barge in Sydney's iconic harbour.

Rick Santorum has a very good chance of winning today's Republican presidential primary in Louisiana, but the big question is whether it will still matter.

BEIRUT (AP) -- As Syria's bloodshed deepens, the British-born first lady has become an object of contempt for many, a Marie Antoinette figure who shopped online for crystal-encrusted Christian Louboutin stilettos while her country burned....

BEIRUT (AP) -- As Syria's bloodshed deepens, the British-born first lady has become an object of contempt for many, a Marie Antoinette figure who shopped online for crystal-encrusted Christian Louboutin stilettos while her country burned....

BEIRUT (AP) -- As Syria's bloodshed deepens, the British-born first lady has become an object of contempt for many, a Marie Antoinette figure who shopped online for crystal-encrusted Christian Louboutin stilettos while her country burned....

LEON, Mexico (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI landed in Mexico on Friday to throngs of faithful who gathered at the tarmac and lined more than 20 miles of his route into the city shouting the ultimate welcome: "Benedict, brother, you are now Mexican."...

Opening free schools in parts of England where they are not needed is a "shameful" waste of taxpayers' money, the leader of a head teachers' union has said.

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (AP) -- President Barack Obama has departed for Seoul, South Korea, for an international summit on keeping nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists....

The British inventor who says he has invented a pain-free needle

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charges filed Friday against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales reflect the horror of the crime: 17 counts of premeditated murder, more than half of them children, during a shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan. But while Afghans are calling for swift and severe punishment, it will likely be months, even years, before the public ever sees Bales in a courtroom....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charges filed Friday against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales reflect the horror of the crime: 17 counts of premeditated murder, more than half of them children, during a shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan. But while Afghans are calling for swift and severe punishment, it will likely be months, even years, before the public ever sees Bales in a courtroom....