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SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) -- A tour bus carrying schoolchildren home from a class trip slammed head-on into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps, killing 22 Belgian students and six adults and instantly changing a joyous skiing vacation into a tragedy spanning two European nations....

SEATTLE (AP) -- A 3-year-old scrambled out of his child seat after his parents stopped for gas early Wednesday, found a gun police say was left in the car by his father and fatally shot himself in the head....

ROCKWOOD, Pa. (AP) -- A tractor-trailer collided with a school bus carrying two dozen students and adults Wednesday in western Pennsylvania, killing the truck driver and injuring at least 20 people, most of them students, authorities said....

The American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians on Sunday has been flown to Kuwait, as the US defence secretary visits Afghanistan.

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- The parents of two Virginia Tech students killed in a 2007 campus massacre worked for years to prove university officials were negligent for waiting to warn students of a gunman on campus, and a jury agreed with them on Wednesday....

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) -- A man at court with family members opened fire outside a Southeast Texas courthouse Wednesday, killing an elderly bystander and wounding at least three others - including his daughter and her mother - before briefly taking hostages at a nearby business, police said....

In a re-election year, the U.S. president is making the world and all its troubles . . . vanish.

The president's fund-raising troubles are evidence of disappointed Democrats.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans....

Today the U.S. is whining they're too expensive. Soon we'll complain they're too cheap.

Because governments always promote government debt and can pressure banks into buying it, future sovereign debt crises are inevitable.

With the repeal of Jackson-Vanik, it's more important than ever to hold the Russian oligarchy accountable.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Determined to show momentum in a war marred by setbacks, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minster David Cameron said for the first time Wednesday that NATO forces would hand over the lead combat role to Afghanistan forces next year as the U.S. and its allies aim to get out by the end of 2014....