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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, damages cars are seen after an explosion hit a university in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Two explosions struck the main university in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday, causing an unknown number of casualties, state media and anti-government activists said. There were conflicting reports as to what caused the blast at Aleppo University, which was in session Tuesday. (AP Photo/SANA)

Dozens killed in blasts at Syria university

By Ben Hubbard,Associated Press January 15, 2013

BEIRUT (AP) — Twin blasts ripped through a university campus in Syria’s largest city on Tuesday as students were taking exams, setting cars alight, blowing the walls off dormitory rooms and...

FILE - In this May 9, 2011 file picture people use a infrared-DIC microscopy to do multi-neuron patch-clamp recording in the Blue Brain team and the Human Brain Project (HBP) laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Blue Brain team has come together with 12 other European and international partners to propose the Human Brain Project (HBP), a candidate for funding under the EU's FET Flagship program. The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron)

Race is on for EU’s $1.3 billion science projects

By Frank Jordans,Associated Press January 15, 2013

BERLIN (AP) — Call it Europe’s Got Talent for geeks. Teams of scientists from across the continent are vying for a funding bonanza that could see two of them receive up to €1 billion...

Official: Rare-earth elements in Jamaica’s red mud

By David McFadden,Associated Press January 15, 2013

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica may be able to benefit from newly found deposits of rare-earth elements that are key ingredients for smartphones, computers and numerous other high-tech goods, the...

Report of Lafayette school rape prompts changes

January 15, 2013

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The Lafayette Parish School System and Police Department have made adjustments to procedures at N.P. Moss Preparatory campus following the suspected rape of a female student...

Freezing rain closes schools, cancels flights

January 15, 2013

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Freezing rain and sleet closed Grambling State University early, canceled flights, sent drivers skidding and broke power lines in north Louisiana. Police in both Shreveport...

Voucher program can continue in Tangipahoa

January 15, 2013

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that the state can continue its private school tuition voucher program in Tangipahoa Parish, despite the local school board’s claim the...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks after signing New York's Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act into law during a ceremony in the Red Room at the Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Also pictured from left are Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein, D-Bronx, Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

NY passes first US gun control law since massacre

By Michael Virtanen,Associated Press January 15, 2013

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Jumping out ahead of Washington, New York state enacted the nation’s toughest gun restrictions Tuesday and the first since the Connecticut school massacre, including an...

Man pleads guilty to charge in Mo. sex slave case

By Bill Draper,Associated Press January 15, 2013

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man accused of torturing a young woman he kept as a sex slave pleaded guilty Tuesday to having sex with her when she was underage, but more serious charges including...

Police and emergency personnel transport a man to an ambulance after a shooting at Stephens Institute of Business and Arts on Washington Avenue in St. Louis on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. A part-time student strode into the office of a longtime administrator at the school and shot the man in the chest, creating panic in the school before turning the gun on himself, police said. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Carson) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT

Gunman wounds man, himself at St. Louis school

By Jim Salter,Associated Press January 15, 2013

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A part-time student strode into the office of a longtime administrator at a downtown St. Louis business school Tuesday and shot the man in the chest, creating panic in the school...

Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, leader of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, left, and activist Sergio Aguayo show a letter urging President Obama for tighter controls against gun smuggling into Mexico, outside of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

54,000 Mexicans sign petition for US gun control

By Associated Press January 14, 2013

MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 54,000 Mexicans have signed a petition calling on the United States to take further steps to combat weapons trafficking. Mexico says the majority of guns used by the...

Retirees play Taichi during their morning exercise on a hazy day in Fuyang city, in central China's Anhui province, Monday Jan. 14, 2013. Air pollution is a major problem in China due to the country's rapid pace of industrialization, reliance on coal power, explosive growth in car ownership and disregard for environmental laws. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Severe Beijing smog prompts unusual transparency

By Gillian Wong, Associated Press January 14, 2013

BEIJING (AP) — One of Beijing’s worst rounds of air pollution kept schoolchildren indoors and sent coughing residents to hospitals Monday, but this time something was different about the murky...

Pakistani police officers stand guards on a shipping container placed to block the supporters of Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, to enter into high security area Red Zone during an anti government rally in Islamabad, Pakistan Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Thousands of Pakistanis fed up with political leaders they say are corrupt and indifferent rallied in the Pakistani capital Tuesday, as the fiery cleric who organized the rally called for the government to resign and for his followers to remain on the streets until then. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Thousands rally in Pakistani capital against government

By Zarar Khan, Associated Press January 14, 2013

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Thousands of Pakistanis fed up with political leaders they say are corrupt and indifferent rallied in the Pakistani capital Tuesday, as the cleric who organized the rally called...