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Aid groups in Darfur weigh future after kidnapping

By The Associated Press
March 14, 2009

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Three foreign aid workers abducted in Sudan's lawless Darfur region were released unharmed on Saturday, three days after their capture at gunpoint led international aid groups...

Chorus of outrage over millions in AIG bonuses

By The Associated Press
March 14, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of the White House economic team and the Senate's top Republican bellowed about bonuses at a bailed-out insurance giant and pledged to prevent such payments in the future....

Police find 9 bodies in Mexican border city

By The Associated Press
March 14, 2009

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Police acting on a tip found nine bodies partially buried in the desert on the outskirts of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, and authorities announced the arrest...

Northeast US to suffer most from future sea rise

By The Associated Press
March 14, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — The northeastern U.S. coast is likely to see the world's biggest sea level rise from man-made global warming, a new study predicts. However much the oceans rise by the end of the...

Obama to states: Spend stimulus wisley – or else

By The Associated Press
March 11, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday rallied the people he is counting on to help turn around the economy and warned anew that he will not tolerate wasteful spending of his $787 billion...

Aid group pulls out after Darfur workers kidnapped

By The Associated Press
March 11, 2009

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Armed men stormed an aid agency compound in Darfur and kidnapped three Westerners, heightening fears that foreigners will be targeted in the backlash over the international...

Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush jailed for 3 years

By The Associated Press
March 11, 2009

BAGHDAD (AP) — A court convicted an Iraqi journalist of assault Thursday for hurling his shoes at George W. Bush and sentenced him to three years in prison, prompting an outburst from his family...

Texas gov. rejects stimulus money for unemployment

By The Associated Press
March 11, 2009

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money that would expand state unemployment benefits, saying the money would have required the state to keep...

Pollution dims skies as well as befouling the air

By The Associated Press
March 11, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — The skies are dimming, for most of the world. Increases in airborne pollution have dimmed the skies by blocking sunlight over the past 30 years, researchers report in Friday's edition...

Filmmaker plans to shoot with tiny camera in eye

By The Associated Press
March 10, 2009

BRUSSELS (AP) — A one-eyed documentary filmmaker is preparing to work with a video camera concealed inside a prosthetic eye, hoping to secretly record people for a project commenting on the global...

Dalai Lama: Tibetan life under Chinese rule ‘hell on earth’

By The Associated Press
March 10, 2009

DHARMSALA, India (AP) — Life for Tibetans under Chinese rule has been "hell on earth," the Dalai Lama said on Tuesday, attacking Beijing in a speech to mark 50 years since the failed uprising that...

France puts a cork in alcohol sales to country’s youth

By The Associated Press
March 10, 2009

PARIS (AP) — A spot of Calvados, the apple brandy, in the bottle to help baby sleep. Champagne for all at the family fete. And wine anytime, well, because we're French. All this tippling has given...