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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home from Cuba after a five-day round of radiation therapy and says the cancer treatments are going well....

Lottery fever has swept the United States, where the Mega Millions jackpot has reached an all-time record of $500m (£314m).

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- One senator warned of a panic. Another said things were going to be hot. Neither gave any details, but that didn't matter: Within minutes of their comments on the radio, hundreds of shops closed, schools canceled classes and seemingly everyone rushed home....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House has passed a stopgap three-month transportation bill to keep federal aid flowing to construction projects....

ATLANTA (AP) -- Autism cases are on the rise again, largely due to wider screening and better diagnosis, federal health officials said Thursday....

ATLANTA (AP) -- Autism cases are on the rise again, largely due to wider screening and better diagnosis, federal health officials said Thursday....

ATLANTA (AP) — Autism cases are on the rise again, largely due to wider screening and better diagnosis, federal health officials said Thursday.

The rate of U.S. cases of autism and related disorders rose to about 1 in 88 children. The previous estimate was 1 in 110.

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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Trayvon Martin's family has seized on a police video of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, saying it does not show the injuries Zimmerman claims he suffered before fatally shooting the unarmed black teenager....

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- The head of a U.N. observer team in Syria cautioned Friday that the mission cannot achieve a permanent end to the violence without genuine talks between the two sides that have been locked in a violent conflict for more than a year....

The Cassini spacecraft captures striking images from flying by three moons of Saturn, including new pictures of Enceladus's gushing geysers.

A National Service of Commemoration for Captain Robert Falcon Scott has been held on the centenary of his final diary entry.

Royal Navy bomb disposal teams work to ensure a World War II German rocket found in the mud flats at Harwich Harbour is made safe.

Aerial footage shows long queues for fuel in New Malden, London, as Ministers clarify advice to motorists ahead of a possible fuel drivers' strike.

Declaring that the American oil industry is "booming," President Barack Obama said Thursday the nation will be watching to see where Congress stands on his push to end tax breaks for the major oil companies.

Pakistan has fired a doctor who helped the CIA to hunt Osama bin Laden, a senior government official told CNN.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Fewer than half the leaders of the Arab world showed up at an Arab summit in Baghdad on Thursday, a snub to the Iraqi government that reflects how trenchantly the sectarian division between Sunnis and Shiites and the rivalry with neighboring Iran define the Middle East's politics today....

After six terms in the Senate, Indiana's Richard Lugar finds himself the latest target of the tea party movement's desire both to have more influence over the policy agenda in Congress and to make the Republican Party more conservative.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- During the darkest days of the Great Recession, Ohio didn't have enough in its rainy day fund to buy even a candy bar. It held a balance of exactly 89 cents....

Thomas and Raymond Kwok, who run one of Hong Kong's biggest property companies, are arrested on suspicion of corruption.