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Libya's NTC lifts its ban on religious parties as Libyans register to vote in June's congressional elections.

Newt Gingrich halts his White House campaign, but falls short of a full-throated endorsement for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Researchers are surprised by how much earlier plants begin flowering when at elevated temperatures - a far greater effect than models predict.

Gunfire is heard in Mali's capital Bamako for a third day as junta patrols hunt down soldiers who tried to stage an counter-coup earlier in the week.

The editor of the world-leading scientific journal Nature says current procedures to assess and censor research potentially useful to bioterrorists are "problematic" and need to be improved.

WASHINGTON — The government plans to speed up the process for tracking E. coli in meat, a move that will help authorities more quickly find the source of bacteria outbreaks and hasten food recalls.

The new Agriculture Department program announced Wednesday would begin tracing the source of potentially contaminated ground ...

BERLIN (AP) -- A court in Germany ruled Wednesday that Microsoft infringed two patents held by Motorola, in a case that could affect sales of its popular Xbox 360 console and the Windows 7 operating system....

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A woman whose own skin is deeply bronze-colored from regular visits to a tanning salon has been accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth in violation of state law, burning the girl's skin....

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) -- Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in as a lawmaker Wednesday, capping a tenacious, decades-long journey from political prisoner to parliamentarian that will enable Myanmar's main opposition party to take its struggle for democratic rule inside the country's army-backed government for the first time....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 15 million premature babies are born every year - more than 1 in 10 of the world's births and a bigger problem than previously believed, according to the first country-by-country estimates of this obstetric epidemic....

Mitt Romney is nipping at President Barack Obama's heels in Rust Belt states that Obama won in 2008 but which polls show are becoming more competitive in a slowing economy....

The economy isn't cooperating with President Barack Obama's re-election schedule....

We just saw a raw display of the power of the presidency in an election year....

President Barack Obama acknowledges the outlook has darkened some, but suggests the fundamentals of the American economy are sound and will get better if voters just stand with him....

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney likes to portray himself as a better job creator than President Barack Obama, but he may have a hard time backing up those boasts....

As Mitt Romney closes in on nailing down the Republican presidential nomination, endorsements from prominent Republicans are slowing to a trickle. And some endorsements come with noticeable reservations....

We just saw a raw display of the power of the presidency in an election year....

Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is showcasing his private-sector experience and trying to persuade voters his business savvy makes him the best suited to lift the economy out of its long funk....

Austria's government is to boycott Euro 2012 matches in Ukraine amid concern over the treatment of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

LONDON (AP) -- Pressure is growing on Europe's leaders to focus less on austerity and more on stimulating growth as the 17 countries that use the euro face record high unemployment and a recession that is spreading across the region....