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CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Vatican has taken the extraordinary step of overruling the closing of 13 parishes by the Cleveland Diocese, a lawyer who fought the cutbacks said Wednesday....

Argentine Transport Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi resigns because of health problems, two weeks after the country suffered its worst train crash in decades.

Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas have just returned from the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya with their remote-controlled camera.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The ReelzChannel television network says it scheduled a pro-Sarah Palin documentary on the same weekend as HBO's "Game Change" debut strictly for business considerations, not political ones....

MPs urge the government to impose sanctions on Russian officials involved in the death of a lawyer for a British firm who clashed with the authorities over corruption allegations.

From ancient Rome, a remarkably savvy guide for political campaigning. Peter Stothard reviews Cicero's "How to Win an Election."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the nation's top military leader delivered a sober assessment Wednesday of Syria's sophisticated air defenses and its extensive stockpile of chemical weapons in a strategic reality check to the demand for U.S. military action to end President Bashar Assad's deadly crackdown on his people....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country's prison terms "pathetic" and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Republicans and oil industry leaders called Wednesday for more U.S. gas production to combat rising prices, fast becoming an issue in the presidential campaign. Democrats focused on conservation and the role of Wall Street speculators in driving up prices...

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- A former winner of the television show "Holland's Next Top Model" has won a lawsuit against Elite Model Management after she was dropped for having hips the agency considered too large....

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- A former winner of the television show "Holland's Next Top Model" has won a lawsuit against Elite Model Management after she was dropped for having hips the agency considered too large....

Patricia and Joan Miller were identical twins who pursued their dreams together. As a team, the Miller sisters met Bing Crosby, appeared on a TV show in the 1950s and purchased a house in California's picturesque South Lake Tahoe....

OXNARD, Calif. (AP) -- A junior high school teacher was placed on leave as a school district investigates whether she was moonlighting as a porn star, officials said....

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia Tech police detective who responded to the first two killings on campus five years ago testified Wednesday she believed the slayings were isolated and other students were not at risk....

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia Tech police detective who responded to the first two killings on campus five years ago testified Wednesday she believed the slayings were isolated and other students were not at risk....

OXNARD, Calif. — A junior high school teacher was placed on leave as a school district investigates whether she was moonlighting as a porn star, officials said.

Meanwhile, students at the Southern California campus were asked not to search Internet sex sites for images of the teacher, the district ...

Opponents of the government's overhaul of the NHS are holding a last-ditch rally in Westminster, aimed at persuading ministers to change their minds.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The largest solar flare in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights....

The Spanish town of Rasquera has leased land to grow cannabis in order to pay its 1.3 million euros debt.

A building with a hole in its centre is dividing public opinion in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.