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BEIJING (AP) -- The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight....

BEIJING (AP) -- The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight....

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A crowded bus plunged into a river bank in central Vietnam, killing 34 people and injuring 21 others in one of the country's deadliest road accidents....

Coping with the pressure of flying the Olympic flame to the UK

David Beckham lights a cauldron in Cornwall after the flame touches down, ready for the start of the London 2012 torch relay.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Trayvon Martin was shot through the heart at close range. George Zimmerman had a broken nose, bruises and bloody cuts on the back of his head....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- About 70 Christian youths in the Philippines have chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally calling for the singer's shows in Manila next week to be canceled....

Infowars | I Multiple news agencies, acting in concert, are spin-washing reality to claim that 1991 Kenyan print "mistake" gave birth to 'birther' theories.

No 10 rejects suggestions of a rift between David Cameron and Francois Hollande ahead of their first talks at the G8 summit in the US.

More than 20 monarchs gather to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, with protests over the inclusion of the controversial heads of Bahrain and Swaziland.

A foundation devoted to education about and treatment of flesh-eating bacteria cites government figures estimating 500 to 1,500 cases occur in the United States each year. But media coverage of these cases is rare, so the story of a Georgia grad student fighting the disease may help raise awareness, the foundation's co-founder says.

DENVER (AP) -- Crews in northern Colorado braced for powerful fire-fanning winds as they battle a blaze that has scorched about 85 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history....

Lai Changxing, extradited from Canada to China to face smuggling and bribery charges, is jailed for life in China, state media says.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand police filed charges Friday against a 20-year-old Boston University student who drove a minivan in a crash that killed three of his college classmates last week....

Why doctors should talk more about death

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki arrives in Sudan to try to restart talks between Sudan and South Sudan after heavy fighting last month.

LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) -- Grayish-brown smoke from a large wildfire blamed for killing a woman in her home blanketed the foothills of northern Colorado on Tuesday and a smoky haze stretched from near the Wyoming border to Denver....

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An undercover video shows horses being struck with sticks and subjected to "soring," an illegal process in which chemicals are placed on their legs to induce the trademark Tennessee Walking Horse high-stepping gait.