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Berlin police say man rips off head of Hitler figure at new Madame Tussauds branch

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:56:25 +0000

BERLIN - Berlin police say a man has ripped off the head of a wax figure of Adolf Hitler at Madame Tussauds' newly opened branch in the German capital. A police statement says the 41-year-old man t...

Insurgents shoot up cafe in Thailand's south, killing 3 diners and wounding 4

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:56:40 +0000

BANGKOK, Thailand - Police say insurgents in Thailand's restive south have killed three customers at a cafe in a drive-by shooting. Police Maj. Saenchai Kesarin says the insurgents drove up in a pi...

Canadian soldier found dead at undisclosed Middle Eastern base

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:21:40 +0000

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier was found dead in the sleeping area of a Middle Eastern military base. The death of Cpl. Brendan Anthony Downey, a military policeman based in Dundurn, Sa...

U.K. police make arrest in connection with French student murders: reports

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:48:40 +0000

LONDON - British news reports say London police have arrested a suspect in connection with the brutal murders of two French students. The BBC and other media are reporting that police detained a 21...

10 Taliban killed while planting bomb; Afghan lawmaker assassinated

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:32:55 +0000

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan legislator, while a roadside bomb militants were planting detonated prematurely, killing 10 Taliban. ...

Colombian hostage rescue mission mimicked Venezuelan airlifts

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:03:33 +0000

BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombian military intelligence agents flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another ...

Myanmar imprisons 4 protesters against new constitution for 'trespassing'

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:47:12 +0000

YANGON, Myanmar - A court in Myanmar imprisoned four pro-democracy activists for one year for campaigning against a constitution promoted by the military government. Nyan Win, a spokesman for the o...

No reprieve for wildfire-weary California; fires rage on two fronts

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:47:10 +0000

BIG SUR, Calif. - A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California's central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening more than 4,500 homes hundreds of...

Canadian engineer kidnapped by armed men in Colombia

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:26:27 +0000

BOGOTA, Colombia - A Canadian electrical engineer and a Colombian man have been kidnapped by armed men in rural Colombia. Col. Ruben Alzate says 46-year-old Thomas Orland MacLean and 48-year-old Je...

Spitzer call girl drops lawsuit against 'Girls Gone Wild' founder

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:12:57 +0000

MIAMI - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Intern...

Colombian video shows hostages joyfully hugging in helicopter during rescue

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:01:13 +0000

BOGOTA, Colombia - Video recorded during the rescue of 15 rebel hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the helicopter that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying with joy ...

Gunmen assassinate official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party in Basra

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:18:10 +0000

BAGHDAD - Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party in the southern city of Basra today. Sheik Salim al-Dirraji was gunned down in the Hayania district, which h...

Park Service considering reopening Statue of Libertys crown

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:18:14 +0000

NEW YORK - The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to documents released Friday. The docume...

Jesse Helms, unyielding champion of the conservative movement, dies at 86

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:18:12 +0000

RALEIGH, N.C. - Former senator Jesse Helms, a staunch anti-Communist and conservative who built a 30-year congressional career along the fault lines of racial politics, battling liberals and the occas...

Americans celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, revelry

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:25:34 +0000

NEW YORK - Americans across the country mixed patriotism and plain old good fun to mark Independence Day on Friday, with solemn ceremony alternating with parades and hot-dog-eating hijinks. On the ...