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Mexico police find 5 dead, including mummified corpse, on farm

MORELIA, Mexico - Mexican police found a mummified corpse and four other dead bodies on a farm in the drug-plagued western state of Michoacan on Friday. Four of the bodies were found in an unmarked...

Soldier killed when Canadian commander's convoy hits IED in Afghanistan

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier travelling through a hotbed of Taliban activity was killed Friday when his armoured vehicle struck a roadside bomb seconds after it was narrowly missed by th...

Top Iran cleric says British Embassy staffers to be tried, accuses London of fueling protests

A powerful cleric said Friday that Iran will put British Embassy staffers on trial for fomenting postelection turmoil, a step that would likely increase Iran's isolation and alienate Western nations t...

Palin's resignation signals run in 2012 that's sure to be a rough, wild ride

WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin's stunning announcement Friday that she's stepping down as Alaska governor is sure to renew heated debate in the United States about the media's treatment of her political asp...

Gunmen seize Irish, Ugandan aid workers in northern Darfur

CAIRO - Gunmen abducted two female aid workers in Darfur on Friday, said the international peacekeeping mission in the western region of Sudan. It was the third kidnapping of foreign humanitarian w...

6 people, including an infant, killed as blaze rips through London high-rise

LONDON - Six people, including a 3-week-old baby, were killed and 30 people had to be rescued when fire ripped through a high-rise apartment building in London on Friday, emergency services said. L...

Flight 447: Dispute between Brazil, Senegal over which nation was in control of flight

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's air force released a recording Friday it said proves it handed over control of Air France Flight 447 to Senegalese authorities before it crashed - but African officials denie...

Vice-President Biden presses Iraqi leaders to make political progress

BAGHDAD - Vice-President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered U.S. assistance in achieving that, as concerns grow that a lack of political pr...

Extramarital shenanigans give U.S. politics a soap opera flourish

WASHINGTON - Sordid stories that seem plucked from the afternoon soap operas have been dominating the U.S. political landscape in recent days as Capitol Hill legislators took a breather during their F...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she will resign from office July 26

WASILLA, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Republican vice-presidential candidate, made a surprise announcement Friday that she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaini...