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Shares fall in the US and Europe, led by banks, as worries about the Spanish economy's borrowing needs re-emerge in financial markets.

GREENLAND, N.H. (AP) -- A man suspected of killing a New Hampshire police chief just days from retirement and wounding four other officers was found dead along with a female acquaintance early Friday, ending an overnight standoff that plunged a small town into fear and grief....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his family paid more than $160,000 in federal taxes last year on earnings of $789,674, the White House said Friday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his family paid more than $160,000 in federal taxes last year on earnings of $789,674, the White House said Friday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his family paid more than $160,000 in federal taxes last year on earnings of $789,674, the White House said Friday....

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Hospital officials say the woman rescued from a burning home in Newark, N.J., by the city's mayor has been admitted to intensive care in serious condition....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- A satellite launch North Korea had hailed as a moment of national pride ended in failure Friday when the rocket disintegrated over the Yellow Sea, earning Pyongyang embarrassment as well as condemnation from a host of nations that deemed it a covert test of missile technology....

BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) -- A northeast Ohio man shot and killed his young daughter on her birthday and his wife, who had just told him she was leaving him, inside a crowded Cracker Barrel restaurant before being killed by police....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The top U.S. aid official says the country is drastically reducing the number of aid projects in Pakistan as part of reforms aimed at improving the distribution of billions of dollars in funding....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's foreign minister said Friday that Moscow isn't discussing Syria's future without President Bashar Assad as Washington has claimed....

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- Investigators on Friday morning were waiting to get the all clear from fire officials before entering a Modesto apartment that was gutted by fire to check on the status of a suspect in the shooting deaths of a deputy and a civilian, police said....

Several people have been shot dead during protests in Syria, activists say, as the UN considers deploying monitors to oversee a peace plan.

Frida Ghitis says the impunity of North Korea's pathway to nuclear program sets a dangerous example for countries like Iran

The airline Qantas is flying its planes on biofuel made from recycled chip oil. But how does it work?

A video which shows children acting like kidnappers, corrupt police officers and drug traffickers is causing controversy in Mexico.

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Iranian nuclear negotiators arrived Friday and began consultations with Chinese and Russian counterparts on the eve of international talks on the country's nuclear program, state media reported.

Four people test positive and a further 13 possible cases of cryptosporidium infection are found at a community farm.

When a recording was released of a 911 call George Zimmerman made to police shortly before fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, some who heard it zeroed in on three words to suggest he had uttered a racial slur....

The war photographer Paul Conroy who was severely injured in Syria has warned that material from citizen journalists and activists involved directly in the conflict cannot be relied upon