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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Republican leader said Monday the United States should use overwhelming military force against Iran if American intelligence shows that Tehran has decided to build a nuclear weapon or it has started to enrich uranium to weapons-grade level, a bold call certain to reverberate in U.S.-Israeli talks about how to deal with an emboldened Iran....

Almost 9,000 people are ordered to leave their homes in the town of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales as floods continue to threaten southeast Australia.

BEIJING (AP) -- A Tibetan teenager in Sichuan province died after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese oppression in Tibet, the third such self-immolation in three days, a U.S.-based broadcaster said....

BEIJING (AP) -- A Tibetan teenager in Sichuan province died after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese oppression in Tibet, the third such self-immolation in three days, a U.S.-based broadcaster said....

Slow art movement hopes to ease the hectic pace of modern life

FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Workers in rubber boots chip at the frozen ground, scraping until they've removed the top 2 inches (5 centimeters) of radioactive soil from the yard of a single home. Total amount of waste gathered: roughly 60 tons....

Fish are having to be rescued because large areas of the UK are now in drought. How do you rescue a fish?

What did 1962 Britain think of the first smoking health alerts?

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Anti-whaling activists claimed Tuesday that they have effectively ended this year's Japanese hunt following a late-night altercation near Antarctica, but the whalers said their season will continue....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Anti-whaling activists claimed Tuesday that they have effectively ended this year's Japanese hunt following a late-night altercation near Antarctica, but the whalers said their season will continue....

What drives a man to kill himself and his family?

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A prosecutor and defense attorney implored jurors Monday to consider the science of DNA and use it to either convict or acquit a former police detective in a 26-year-old, love triangle murder case....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Taking sharply different stands, President Barack Obama on Monday urged pressure and diplomacy to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized his nation's right to a pre-emptive attack. Even in proclaiming unity, neither leader gave ground on how to resolve the crisis....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Taking sharply different stands, President Barack Obama on Monday urged pressure and diplomacy to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized his nation's right to a pre-emptive attack. Even in proclaiming unity, neither leader gave ground on how to resolve the crisis....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A moderately strong earthquake cracked buildings and knocked televisions and glassware from tables Tuesday in a central Philippine province, injuring at least five people and sending others rushing outside in panic, officials said....

Argentina is to open a museum honouring its soldiers who died during the Falklands conflict with the UK in 1982, President Cristina Fernandez says.

The House of Lords back amendments to the government's health bill, which now looks on course to become law within weeks.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Once, long ago, Evie looked after "Barry" Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world's most powerful man. Now, his transgender former nanny has given up her tight, flowery dresses, her brocade vest and her bras, and is living in fear on Indonesia's streets....

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Once, long ago, Evie looked after "Barry" Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world's most powerful man. Now, his transgender former nanny has given up her tight, flowery dresses, her brocade vest and her bras, and is living in fear on Indonesia's streets....

Companies will get £5,600 each time they get an ex-prisoner into work and keep them on for more than two years, the government announces.