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Police: Reality TV star found dead  2009-08-24 11:50:32

Canadian police say fugitive murder suspect Ryan Jenkins has been found dead of an apparent suicide in a motel in British Columbia.



Even in death, Kim Dae-jung unites Koreas  2009-08-24 11:43:38

In death as in life, Kim Dae-jung managed to bring the two rival Koreas together.



Healthy looking Fidel Castro meets Ecuador leader  2009-08-24 11:29:49

Cuba's Communist Youth newspaper is showing a photo of a healthier-looking Fidel Castro talking with the visiting Ecuadorean president.



Malaysia woman to be caned for drinking beer  2009-08-24 10:59:44

Islamic officials took custody Monday of a Muslim model scheduled to be caned this week for drinking beer, the first woman in Malaysia to be given the punishment for violating religious laws.



Obama, family head to Martha's Vineyard vacation  2009-08-23 20:54:00

After giving a weakening hurricane time to blow past, President Barack Obama and his family head Sunday to a small island off the Massachusetts coast for the president's first vacation since taking office.



Frenchman who shot at ex-President Chirac released  2009-08-22 20:47:40

A judicial official says a French far-right activist has been released from prison seven years after attempting to assassinate then-President Jacques Chirac in a Bastille Day attack.



Rioting inmates set US prison ablaze  2009-08-22 18:07:31

Rioting inmates started fires that damaged several buildings at a central Kentucky prison, and some prisoners suffered minor injuries in the melee, police said Saturday.



Officials: Slain ex-model ID'd by breast implants  2009-08-22 16:46:35

An ex-model found stuffed in a bloodstained suitcase without fingers or teeth was so badly mutilated that authorities had to use breast implants to identify her body, prosecutors said.



Lockerbie bomber release stirs diplomatic row  2009-08-22 09:24:59

The release of the only man convicted of blowing up a Pan Am flight in 1988 has brought high drama and controversy: the jeering mob outside a Scottish prison, the cheering crowd at a Tripoli airport, the furious families of the 270 people who died in the Lockerbie bombing.



2 walk away from fiery small plane crash in US  2009-08-21 22:43:10

A small plane crashed while trying to land at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport on Friday morning, and the two people aboard survived and managed to walk away from the fiery wreckage.



US police: 'Hitler' beat black man  2009-08-20 05:16:45

US death row prisoner wins hearing  2009-08-18 21:19:39



Samsung ex-boss guilty over bond deal  2009-08-14 15:47:31



Brad Pitt for mayor?  2009-08-13 22:59:43

90-yr-old former Nazi gets life term  2009-08-12 10:59:36