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LAKE TAPPS, Wash. (AP) -- A diverging portrait of the Army sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers is emerging as records and interviews show a man appreciated by friends and family who won military commendations, yet one who faced professional disappointment, financial trouble and brushes with the law....

Joachim Gauck - an outspoken anti-communist pastor from the East - is elected Germany's new president by lawmakers.

KUWAIT CITY (AP) -- Kuwait Airways, the Gulf state's national carrier, extended flight cancellations across its route network into a second day Sunday as it scrambled to cope with a strike by workers....

DHULIYAN, India (AP) -- Sagira Ansari sits on a dusty sack outside her uneven brick home in this poor town in eastern India, her legs folded beneath her. She cracks her knuckles, then rubs charcoal ash between her palms....

DHULIYAN, India (AP) -- Sagira Ansari sits on a dusty sack outside her uneven brick home in this poor town in eastern India, her legs folded beneath her. She cracks her knuckles, then rubs charcoal ash between her palms....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- At El Sendero De La Cruz evangelical church, Rick Santorum sought prayers along with votes....

BBC Radio 5 live presenter Richard Bacon has suffered two years of anonymous abuse directed at him, his wife and his baby son, he reveals.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Here's a thought that can't comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of his health care overhaul rests with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices....

Police continue to question a 27-year-old man following a crash on the A55 in Gwynedd in which one man died and three people were seriously hurt.

Gunmen fatally shot an American teacher in the Yemeni province of Taiz on Sunday, two defense ministry officials said.

Bolton fans have been laying tributes to midfielder Fabrice Muamba, who remains critically ill after collapsing during a match on Saturday night.

The leader of the Scottish Conservatives is to launch a new group aimed at keeping Scotland in the Union.

Tens of thousands of Egypt's Coptic Christians hold an overnight vigil and attend a Mass for Pope Shenouda III, who died on Saturday aged 88.

MINSK, Belarus (AP) -- Two men convicted of carrying out a deadly subway bombing last year in Belarus' capital have been executed, drawing strong condemnation from activists and the European Union....

Emergency repair work being carried out on the Forth Road Bridge over the weekend is finished ahead of schedule.

Tehran has blocked a UK Foreign Office website in Iran as part of its "ever-tightening stranglehold of censorship", the foreign secretary says.

My servers experienced some trouble, as you may have noticed, resulting in the loss of some posts and comments over the past month. Things seem to be settled down and mostly backup and running. Feel free to repost any comments that got lost and I apologize for the crash and burn. Ironically, it happened right after I made backup but before I had downloaded the backup to my local computer which is why as much was lost as there was.

-Walter

PARIS (AP) -- The French butcher who cuts and tresses your meat with care, and serves as city dwellers' link to the land, is falling on hard times, unable to find new blood to keep his iconic image alive - as supermarkets and Arab butchers selling halal meat at cheaper prices thrive....

Jenson Button says his victory in the Australian Grand Prix is a dream start to the new season for McLaren.

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Treasury chief says he is planning to loosen restrictions on Sunday trading during this summer's London Olympics....