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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Beef Products Inc. will close processing plants in three states this month because of the controversy surrounding its meat product that critics have dubbed "pink slime," a company official said Monday....

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Beef Products Inc. will close processing plants in three states this month because of the controversy surrounding its meat product that critics have dubbed "pink slime," a company official said Monday....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- In a surprise move that could influence a possible Israeli strike on Iran, Israeli media reports early Tuesday indicate that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached an agreement with the Kadima opposition party for a unity government, canceling an early election....

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A shirtless Kelly Thomas pulled on his long, scraggly hair while police searched his backpack....

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A shirtless Kelly Thomas pulled on his long, scraggly hair while police searched his backpack....

Prince Harry has paid tribute to wounded UK service personnel who took part in a tournament called Warrior Games, during a short trip to the US.

An upgraded "underwear bomb" plot designed by al-Qaeda in Yemen to blow up a plane bound for the US is disrupted, US officials say.

The day he returned to school from a three-day suspension, a Colorado first-grader and his family on Monday are still fighting his being disciplined for what the school labeled"sexual harassment" for quoting the song "Sexy and I Know It."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, U.S. officials said Monday....

Three unions representing local government workers in Scotland call for an end to the two-year pay freeze.

What was France like under its last Socialist president?

The Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster criticises the Scottish government's proposed question in the independence referendum.

The West African state of Niger is now the worst place in the world to be a mother, a Save the Children annual report says.

BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese activist who triggered a diplomatic dispute between China and the United States said Monday he is confident that Beijing will hold up its end of a tentative deal to let him study overseas....

BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese activist who triggered a diplomatic dispute between China and the United States said Monday he is confident that Beijing will hold up its end of a tentative deal to let him study overseas....

BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese activist who triggered a diplomatic dispute between China and the United States said Monday he is confident that Beijing will hold up its end of a tentative deal to let him study overseas....

A baseball organist who takes requests

A nonmetallic explosive -- meant for a suicide bombing -- was recovered; it had similarities to one used in a failed attempt on a Detroit-bound jet in 2009, a U.S. official said.

Two police forces kept body parts and tissue samples in nearly 90 suspicious and unexplained death cases without notifying relatives, it emerges.

Poland's football hooligan fears for Euro 2012