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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Actor Robert De Niro opened a fundraiser starring Michelle Obama by listing her Republican rivals and jokingly suggesting that America isn't "ready for a white first lady." Newt Gingrich was not amused, and the Obama campaign says the quip was inappropriate....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Actor Robert De Niro opened a fundraiser starring Michelle Obama by listing her Republican rivals and jokingly suggesting that America isn't "ready for a white first lady." Newt Gingrich was not amused, and the Obama campaign says the quip was inappropriate....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Actor Robert De Niro opened a fundraiser starring Michelle Obama by listing her Republican rivals and jokingly suggesting that America isn't "ready for a white first lady." Newt Gingrich was not amused, and the Obama campaign says the quip was inappropriate....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Actor Robert De Niro opened a fundraiser starring Michelle Obama by listing her Republican rivals and jokingly suggesting that America isn't "ready for a white first lady." Newt Gingrich was not amused, and the Obama campaign says the quip was inappropriate....

SEATTLE (AP) -- When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password....

Venice, the famous Italian City of Water, is continuing to sink at a rate of about 2mm a year, new satellite measurements show.

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- The Texas wildlife agency said Tuesday it is suspending a policy that allows the killing of burros in a state park along the Mexican border after the Humane Society of the United States offered to devise a nonlethal plan to remove the destructive animals....

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- The Texas wildlife agency said Tuesday it is suspending a policy that allows the killing of burros in a state park along the Mexican border after the Humane Society of the United States offered to devise a nonlethal plan to remove the destructive animals....

A large earthquake strikes near Acapulco on Mexico's Pacific coast. The BBC's Will Grant reports from Mexico City.

The Neil Lennon bomb plot trial hears that one of the accused knew packages were being made up to send to Neil Lennon.

The gunman who shot dead seven people in the south of France knows he is being hunted and is likely to strike again, the prosecutor says.

A woman arrested on suspicion of murder after a man's body was discovered at a house in Swansea on Sunday is released on bail.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Tehran will retaliate against any attack by Israeli or American forces "on the same level," Iran's top leader said Tuesday in a defiant address just moments after U.S. President Barack Obama appealed directly to the Iranian people with a message of solidarity....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Tehran will retaliate against any attack by Israeli or American forces "on the same level," Iran's top leader said Tuesday in a defiant address just moments after U.S. President Barack Obama appealed directly to the Iranian people with a message of solidarity....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Final results for many Iranian parliamentary constituencies announced Saturday show supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad relegated to a small fraction of the legislature, hugely outnumbered by the conservatives who once backed him but then turned against him after he was perceived to challenge the authority of top clerics....

Three girls injured in a coach crash in Switzerland in which 28 people died are said to be "out of danger".

The former regional head of government of Spain's Balearic Islands is jailed for corruption in a scandal involving the king's son-in-law.

A self-help education network for the elderly is planning to extend its courses into old people's homes.

John J. Pitney, Jr. says that presidential elections depend on the big things: bread and butter, war and peace. Reality trumps rhetoric.

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia has growing concerns about the conflict in Syria, but it will continue to oppose the outside use of force, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Saturday....