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The mother of a Ballykelly teenager who was murdered 13 years ago says she misses her son every day.

The civilian death toll mounted in Syria Wednesday as the U.N.-Arab League envoy for the country, Kofi Annan, considered a response from Syrian authorities to proposals laid out in weekend meetings, officials said.

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) -- Luis Alberto is only 14 but has the wizened gaze of a grown-up hardened by life. He never met his father, worked as a child, was hired by a gang to sell drugs and then got addicted to them....

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) -- Luis Alberto is only 14 but has the wizened gaze of a grown-up hardened by life. He never met his father, worked as a child, was hired by a gang to sell drugs and then got addicted to them....

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- The comedian who made his name on the "Axis of Evil Comedy Tour" made one thing clear when he opened a recent set at Michigan State University: "Tonight, it's not Islam 101."...

SUVA, Fiji (AP) -- Fiji's military commander on Wednesday disbanded the Great Council of Chiefs, a leadership tradition on the Pacific island nation that dates back more than 130 years....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time in more than 200 years, someone among the editing minions of free online rival Wikipedia made an irony-free note of that fact....

US defence chief Leon Panetta is in Afghanistan for talks following the massacre of 16 Afghans by a US soldier, as bomb attacks leave nine dead.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Boaters cruised along the river in downtown Chicago. Golfers smacked balls in Minnesota....

Rescue workers searching a ferry in Bangladesh which sank on Tuesday with around 200 people on board find 67 bodies.

BBC athletics expert Steve Cram says that Mo Farah's recent losses will give his Olympic rivals confidence

Many years ago, I learned of an episode in the life of a promising young black man that is relevant to things happening now...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum picked up at least 29 delegates Tuesday after winning the Alabama and Mississippi Republican presidential primaries. But former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney offset Santorum's double primary triumph by picking up the support of all nine delegates from American Samoa....

"If you have 10,000 regulations," Winston Churchill said, "you destroy all respect for law."

NORTHFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- A billionaire family from Oklahoma has turned a no-stoplight town in Massachusetts into an essential destination for Christian institutions nationwide with one extraordinary promise....

NORTHFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- A billionaire family from Oklahoma has turned a no-stoplight town in Massachusetts into an essential destination for Christian institutions nationwide with one extraordinary promise....

NORTHFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- A billionaire family from Oklahoma has turned a no-stoplight town in Massachusetts into an essential destination for Christian institutions nationwide with one extraordinary promise....

GENEVA (AP) -- A bus carrying Belgian students returning from a ski holiday crashed into a wall in a Swiss tunnel, killing 28 people, police said Wednesday....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A state-owned Chinese bank that had agreed to finance the Pakistani section of a gas pipeline from Iran that is opposed by the United States is no longer interested in the project, a Pakistani finance ministry spokesman said Wednesday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Santorum had a huge lead among voters in both states seeking a candidate who is a real conservative, winning just over half of their votes. He also captured more than 6 in 10 of those in each state preferring a candidate with strong moral character, rewarding a contender who spoke unhesitatingly about the importance of family and faith....