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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea announced plans Friday to blast a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket, a surprise move that could jeopardize a weeks-old agreement with the U.S. exchanging food aid for nuclear concessions....

DUBLIN (AP) -- Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny is leading a global St. Patrick's Day charm offensive that seeks to woo investment from the United States, China and other countries to debt-crippled Ireland....

The flags around the Millennium Stadium are lowered in honour of Mervyn Davies, the former British Lion and Wales rugby hero, who has died aged 65.

Cultural Climatology 5-13-10

Republican presidential candidates had one foot in the Caribbean and one on the mainland Friday as they campaigned for primaries in Puerto Rico on Sunday and in Illinois on Tuesday.

Millions of microblog users in China face new registration rules, as authorities try to prevent the spread of what they call "unfounded" rumours.

An immigration bill in Mississippi calls for status checks of people arrested by police and bars illegal immigrants from getting licenses.

Your hotel, health club and neighborhood pool can remain open this weekend without fear of violating the law.

The former mistress of 2008 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is expected to be a prosecution witness in his federal criminal trial next month, a federal judge said in court Thursday.

GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum creates debate over language issue in Puerto Rico. CNN's Jim Acosta reports.

A Jewish man wins his fight against a German museum for the return of thousands of rare posters stolen from his father by the Nazis in 1938.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, announces he is to stand down in December and will take up a post at Cambridge University

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Afghan soldier shot to death a 22-year-old Marine at an outpost in southwestern Afghanistan last month in a previously undisclosed case of apparent Afghan treachery that marked at least the seventh killing of an American military member by his supposed ally in the past six weeks, Marine officials said....

The chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Hector Sants, resigns and says he will not now head up a new regulatory body next year.

Chelsea face Benfica in the Champions League quarter-finals while AC Milan meet Barcelona - with the winners meeting in the semis.

Four more people plead guilty to ill treating residents at a private hospital after BBC's Panorama filmed abuse at the home near Bristol.

Rick Santorum's contention that in order for Puerto Rico to become a state English must be its principal language drew criticism Thursday from the U.S. territory's sole representative in Congress.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Isle Royale National Park's gray wolves, one of the world's most closely monitored predator populations, are at their lowest ebb in more than a half-century and could die out within a few years, scientists said Friday....

Tributes are paid in Wales to Dr Rowan Williams for his work as Archbishop of Canterbury.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The father of a man accused of stabbing four men in an Ohio office building says his son may have been stressed after the aunt he lives with told him to move out....