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AP - 2 hours , 29 minutes ago
With a caretaker holding his hand, a Belgian man who was diagnosed as comatose for 23 years typed out a message Tuesday that he felt reborn after decades of loneliness and frustration. A leading bioethicist, however, expressed skepticism that the man was truly communicating on his own.
 
  • Furry felons rob SAfrican tourists, steal food
    AP - 2 hours , 54 minutes ago
    Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.
  • Philippines' deadliest massacre tests government
    AP - 1 hour , 46 minutes ago
    A few miles off the main highway, on a remote hilltop covered with waist-high grass, bodies lay with twisted hands reaching in the air. They had been shot point-blank.
  • China executes 2 for role in tainted milk scandal
    AP - 2 hours , 40 minutes ago
    China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula -- severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest one of the country's worst food safety crises.
  • Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
    AP - 3 hours , 14 minutes ago
    A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday.
  • France shows off cutting-edge navy ship in Russia
    AP - 3 hours , 53 minutes ago
    French officers on Tuesday showed off a cutting-edge warship to a potential buyer -- the Russian navy, whose pursuit of an amphibious assault capacity is frightening some neighboring countries.
  • Prisoner swap could win release of popular leader
    AP - 4 hours , 22 minutes ago
    At the top of the list of Palestinian prisoners likely to be freed in a possible swap for an Israeli soldier is a firebrand politician many Palestinians believe is a likely future president who can pull them out of their current political deadlock.
  • British panel begins inquiry on Iraq war
    AP - 4 hours , 41 minutes ago
    An inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war kicked off Tuesday with top government advisers testifying that some Bush administration officials were calling for Saddam Hussein's ouster as early as 2001 -- long before sanctions were exhausted and two years before the U.S.-led invasion.
  • Iraq elections face delay
    AP - 5 hours , 53 minutes ago
    A senior official said Tuesday that Iraq must delay a national vote scheduled for January because of a political dispute, and the vice president who triggered the crisis indicated he would veto a key election law for a second time.
  • Wooing of Taliban fighters is dangerous game
    AP - 6 hours , 7 minutes ago
    A battered taxi sped up a dusty road toward a squad of Afghan soldiers searching for bombs planted in the dirt. Army gunmen who had fanned out for protection readied for a suicide attacker. The car screeched to a halt.
  • Arms dealer pleads guilty in Ala. smuggling case
    AP - 6 hours , 12 minutes ago
    A Belgian arms dealer has pleaded guilty to illegally exporting airplane engines and parts from the U.S. to Iran for use in aging F-5 fighter jets sold to the Islamic nation before its 1979 revolution.
  • Indian probe blames mosque attack on Hindu leaders
    AP - 6 hours , 13 minutes ago
    An Indian government investigation released Tuesday into the 1992 demolition of a mosque by a raging mob reportedly accused top Hindu nationalist politicians of complicity in the attack that sparked nationwide ethnic riots, leaving 2,000 people dead.
  • Festival of mass animal sacrifice begins in Nepal
    AP - 6 hours , 31 minutes ago
    The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn Tuesday. Then it shifted to a nearby corral, where in the cold morning mist, scores of butchers wielding curved swords began slaughtering buffalo calves by hacking off their heads.
  • US growth downgrade weighs on world markets
    AP - 6 hours , 33 minutes ago
    European and U.S. stock markets fell Tuesday after government figures showed the U.S. economy did not grow as fast in the third quarter as previously estimated, stoking fears that the recovery in the world's largest economy will be slow.
  • Big Bang atom smasher starts speeding proton beams
    AP - 6 hours , 35 minutes ago
    The world's largest atom smasher used its accelerator Tuesday to speed up proton beams for the first time as scientists moved ahead in efforts to learn more about the universe.
  • Prostitute claims Berlusconi offered help with inn
    AP - 9 hours ago
    The prostitute at the center of Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal claims in a new book that she slept with him on the understanding he would help her set up a countryside inn but she got "nothing" in return.
  • GlaxoSmithKline pulls swine flu vaccines in Canada
    AP - 10 hours , 25 minutes ago
    Pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday it has advised medical staff in Canada to not use one batch of swine flu vaccines in case they trigger life-threatening allergies.
  • Pakistani officials: 5 army officers detained
    AP - 10 hours , 50 minutes ago
    Five Pakistani army officers have been detained for questioning over possible links to two U.S. terror suspects accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper, intelligence officials said Tuesday.
  • Bomb kills 6 family members in eastern Afghanistan
    AP - 11 hours , 23 minutes ago
    A remote-controlled bomb planted in a water station exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing six members of a family, including four children, authorities and a relative said.
  • Oil slips towards $77 as markets await data
    AP - 11 hours , 46 minutes ago
    Oil slipped towards $77 a barrel Tuesday as markets awaited data expected to show that the pace of U.S. economic recovery is slower than previously estimated.
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