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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans controlling the House are targeting food stamps, federal employee pensions, tax breaks for illegal immigrants and subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care law in a multifaceted drive to swap cuts to domestic programs for big Pentagon cuts scheduled next year....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending....

Rescuers are working to free a grey whale tangled in up to 30.5m (100ft) of fishing line off the California coast.

The vice chancellor of the University of Wales Newport tells BBC Wales he believes there is a conspiracy to force it to merge with others.

The person who bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket now worth $218 million in Red Bud, Illinois, will be revealed by state lottery officials on Wednesday morning.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Syrian opposition members and international officials say Saudi Arabia and other wealthy Arab Gulf states have yet to start distributing money from a multimillion-dollar fund designed to prop up Syria's anti-regime rebellion and entice defections from President Bashar Assad's army....

India is due to test fire a long-range inter-continental ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A lawyer for Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children says the family is expected to be deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia later Wednesday....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A lawyer for Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children says the family is expected to be deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia later Wednesday....

Press focuses on savers' misery

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- The Maldives president announced Wednesday that he will call for an early presidential election amid opposition demands following a contentious power transfer earlier this year....

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- The Maldives president announced Wednesday that he will call for an early presidential election amid opposition demands following a contentious power transfer earlier this year....

China promises a "thorough" investigation into a top politician linked to the death of a UK businessman, after PM David Cameron holds talks with envoy.

BEIJING (AP) -- China's foreign minister met with his Syrian counterpart on Wednesday in the latest show of Beijing's support for Damascus despite its tentative engagement with Syria's opposition....

BEIJING (AP) -- China's foreign minister met with his Syrian counterpart on Wednesday in the latest show of Beijing's support for Damascus despite its tentative engagement with Syria's opposition....

BEIJING (AP) -- China's ruling Communist Party said Wednesday that it is committed to investigating a political scandal that includes the suspected murder of a British businessman, following new appeals from Britain for a swift probe free from political meddling....

BEIJING (AP) -- China's ruling Communist Party said Wednesday that it is committed to investigating a political scandal that includes the suspected murder of a British businessman, following new appeals from Britain for a swift probe free from political meddling....

A 3-day-old boy was found hours after he was seized from his mother who was fatally shot outside a pediatrician's office near Houston, authorities said.

Within hours of the announcement that Levon Helm was in the final stages of cancer, fans flooded his Facebook page with messages of support and fond recollections of the drummer and backbone of The Band.