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A federal regulation aimed at preventing mad cow disease from getting into the food supply could create health risks of its own: many thousands of cattle carcasses rotting on farms, spreading germs, attracting vermin and polluting the water.
Former NFL star Michael Vick is back in Virginia to face state dogfighting charges.
If only we could be a fly on the wall when our enemies are plotting to attack us. Better yet, what if that fly could record voices, transmit video and even fire tiny weapons?
Stocks are down, down, down. But student interest in economics appears to be trending upward.
Britain's foreign policy chief said Friday that Iran continues to pose the most serious threat to the world, warning that Tehran's suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons risks an arms race across the Middle East.
A federal grand jury in Iowa has returned a 12-count indictment against a kosher slaughterhouse and some of its employees on charges ranging from conspiracy and harboring illegal immigrants to bank fraud.
A SWAT team surrounded a dormitory at Savannah State University Friday after a student was shot and wounded.
A senior Syrian official on Friday all but ruled out new visits by U.N. inspectors probing allegations that his country had a covert program that could be used to make nuclear weapons.
Hiroshi Nohara is on a layover at the Mexico City airport. It has lasted almost three months, and he has no plans to leave.
The Associated Press has named two veteran editors to leadership positions in a new regional editing operation for the Eastern United States.
A man accused of beating his stepdaughter so severely that she suffered a permanent brain injury - triggering a right-to-die case - testified Friday that he never hit her and believed his wife's claims that the girl injured herself.
Greece, Turkey and Belarus have missed deadlines to destroy their land mine stockpiles, as required under an international treaty, said a report Friday by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Bob Jones University has apologized for racist policies including a one-time ban on interracial dating that wasn't lifted until nine years ago and its unwillingness to admit black students until 1971.
Two people have died in a fire that destroyed a restaurant and residence in the small Colorado town of Springfield, about 200 miles southeast of Denver.
Al-Qaida's offshoot in Algeria has carried out fewer terror attacks this year but some of those had a high number of casualties, an academic study said Friday.
While President-elect Barack Obama fills his Cabinet, many foodies are wondering who will fill the ones in his kitchen.
A U.N. panel has urged the Chinese government to apologize to the victims of its 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.
A high-ranking Vatican official says Pope Benedict XVI is considering introducing a change to the Mass liturgy.
The director of Congo's Virunga Park says rangers who fled fighting between rebels and soldiers are returning to protect its endangered mountain gorillas.
An unstable cliff prompted officials Friday to permanently close some cabins in a popular Yosemite National Park lodge complex that has a long history of rockslides.
Out of the hundreds of Tibetan leaders who have flocked here for a pivotal summit on Tibet's future, few understand the hardships there better than a recently arrived barley farmer.
Connecticut has become the first state in the nation to set standards for one of today's cooking staples - olive oil.
It was only a matter of time. A New York school has been renamed in honor of President-elect Barack Obama.
The World Health Organization said Friday that 294 people have died from a cholera outbreak exacerbated by the country's collapsing health care system.
The voyage of the cruiser Peter the Great, scheduled to arrive in Venezuela next week with a squadron of other Russian warships, was meant to showcase the Kremlin's ability to project naval power abroad and reassert its claim to great power status.
Germany is dropping its pursuit of a ban on Scientology after finding insufficient evidence of illegal activity, security officials said Friday.
Shootings, looting and rape plague the already desperate lives of refugees in eastern Congo, where people caught between soldiers and rebels live in constant fear, U.N. officials said Friday.
An all-black Civil War infantry unit honored in the Oscar-winning movie "Glory" with Denzel Washington is making a real-life comeback.
NATO is unlikely to follow the European Union in quickly re-establishing contacts with Russia that were suspended after the war in Georgia, senior U.S. officials said Friday.
After the wedding in a Scottish castle, the mansion on a green English estate and the drinks in their own pub, Madonna and Guy Ritchie's eight-year marriage ended Friday in a dreary London courtroom.
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