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- Australia asks -- again: Did a dingo kill the baby?
- We kissed at Carnival: Brazil blog aids lost loves
- Egypt sets trial date for 16 Americans
- Pope sets date to make U.S. saints
- 22 cardinals join elite club
- Lawyers: Drugs were in ship captain's hair
- Iran reportedly set for big nuke jump
- Syrian forces fire on funeral
- Wounded Syrian refugees flee dramatic escalation
- Deadly Honduran fire could occur across region
| Australia asks -- again: Did a dingo kill the baby? Posted: 19 Feb 2012 12:08 AM PST SYDNEY (AP) -- The growl came first, low and throaty, piercing the darkness that had fallen across the remote Australian desert. A baby's cry followed, then abruptly went silent. Inside the tent, the infant girl had vanished. Outside, her mother was ... |
| We kissed at Carnival: Brazil blog aids lost loves Posted: 18 Feb 2012 04:02 PM PST RIO DE JANEIRO -- It's the typical tale of doomed Carnival romance: Boy spots girl in the sweaty crush of a street party. Moments later, they're locked in a passionate embrace. Then the crowd surges, and the human tide wrenches them apart, forever. ... |
| Egypt sets trial date for 16 Americans Posted: 18 Feb 2012 04:01 PM PST CAIRO -- Egypt said Saturday the criminal trial of 16 Americans and 27 others will start Feb. 26 in a politically charged case against foreign-funded pro-democracy groups that has badly shaken Cairo's ties with Washington. The trial represents an ... |
| Pope sets date to make U.S. saints Posted: 18 Feb 2012 04:01 PM PST Associated Press Pope Benedict XVI has set Oct. 21 as the date to make two U.S. saints: Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk Indian who spent most of her life in what is now upstate New York, and Mother Marianne Cope, who began religious life in the same are ... |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2012 04:01 PM PST VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday brought 22 Catholic churchmen into the elite club of cardinals who will elect his successor, cementing the Italian majority in a future conclave but also giving New York's garrulous archbishop a positio ... |
| Lawyers: Drugs were in ship captain's hair Posted: 18 Feb 2012 04:01 PM PST ROME -- Lawyers for survivors of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship on Saturday pressed for new drug tests on the ship's captain after traces of cocaine were reportedly found on the outside of a hair sample. But the consultant who did the an ... |
| Iran reportedly set for big nuke jump Posted: 18 Feb 2012 04:01 PM PST VIENNA -- Iran is poised to greatly expand uranium enrichment at a fortified underground bunker to a point that would boost how quickly it could make nuclear warheads, diplomats tell The Associated Press. They said Tehran has put finishing touches ... |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2012 03:56 PM PST BEIRUT -- Syrian security forces fired live rounds and tear gas Saturday at thousands of people marching in a funeral procession that turned into one of the largest protests in Damascus since the 11-month uprising against President Bashar Assad beg ... |
| Wounded Syrian refugees flee dramatic escalation Posted: 18 Feb 2012 03:18 AM PST RAMTHA, Jordan -- Syrian refugees fleeing to Jordan for their lives described a dramatic escalation in violence and a mounting toll of dead and wounded in the southern city of Daraa and the country's battered central region. Medical workers in nei ... |
| Deadly Honduran fire could occur across region Posted: 18 Feb 2012 03:17 AM PST TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- The world's worst prison fire in a century happened in a lockup like many in Honduras: a decrepit, suffocating place of overcrowded, dark cellblocks where many inmates were accused only of petty crimes. Experts warn a simi ... |
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