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WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton will end her historic bid on Saturday to become the first female president. Still unclear is whether she will ultimately share the Democratic ticket with Barack Obama, her rival in a presidential quest for the ages.
HOUSTON - Both the inside and outside of the international space station's newest room were getting spruced up Thursday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Denmark shared a video of the suicide car bombing against its embassy in Islamabad with Pakistani investigators, as an Internet posting Thursday purportedly by al-Qaida claimed responsibility and threatened more attacks.
NEW YORK - "Entertainment Tonight" aired a story about the birth of Angelina Jolie's twins despite being repeatedly told beforehand that the report was based on information from someone impersonating Jolie's assistant, according to documents and two people with knowledge of the exchange.
PITTSBURGH - Oil up the Winged Wheel, it's time for another victory parade. Hockeytown is home to the Stanley Cup again. For the fourth time in 11 seasons, the Detroit Red Wings are the Stanley Cup champions. They used experience and grit to knock out the young up-and-coming Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night with a 3-2 victory in Game 6 of the finals.
NEW YORK - As if BlackBerry users needed one more excuse to be glued to their screens, E-Trade Financial Corp. is giving its account holders an application that will let them get real-time stock quotes and trade on their phones.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton will declare her strong support for Barack Obama's White House bid and rally supporters around him, she said in a letter on Thursday, drawing the curtain on a grueling 16-month nominating fight that badly split the Democratic Party.
ROME (Reuters) - A summit on the global food crisis was at risk of closing without a declaration of intent on Thursday because of squabbling over side issues.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Continental Airlines Inc said on Thursday it would cut 3,000 jobs, or about 6.5 percent of its work force, and retire 67 older planes as it scales down in the face of soaring fuel prices.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine officer was acquitted by a military jury on Wednesday on charges he tried to cover up the shooting deaths of two dozen unarmed Iraqi men, women and children at Haditha in 2005.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The United Nations urged the world on Thursday to kick an all-consuming addiction to carbon dioxide and said everyone must take steps to fight climate change.
CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made his third trip to the earthquake zone on Thursday to inspect a swelling "quake lake" as China looked to the future, planning reconstruction of schools, homes and hospitals reduced to rubble.
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar has detained a top activist comedian involved in a private aid effort for cyclone victims, a relative said, as U.S. warships sailed away on Thursday after the military junta refused to accept their aid offer.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Danish team has arrived in Pakistan to work with agents investigating a suicide car-bomb attack on Denmark's embassy which al Qaeda said it carried out in revenge for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Hillary Clinton said she will bow out of her marathon campaign for the White House on Saturday, and throw her full support behind Democratic rival Barack Obama.
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A court martial has acquitted a US Marine for his role in the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha in Iraq in 2005, the sixth man to be exonerated in the affair.
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai returned to the campaign trail Thursday after his detention by police three weeks before a run-off election triggered international outrage.
US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (AFP) - Five men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks will appear in public for the first time in years Thursday at a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey's top court convened Thursday to decide whether to cancel a law allowing women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities, a ruling that could set off a chain reaction for the Islamist rooted governing party and prime minister.
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Swedish Finance Minister Mats Odell said Thursday that the government believed a 33-billion-euro (51-billion-dollar) bid for Swedish-Finnish operator TeliaSonera by France Telecom was too low.
MOSCOW (AFP) - The head of British-Russian energy company TNK-BP has been summoned by Russian authorities for questioning as part of a tax probe, the company said Thursday, amid a battle for control of the firm.
The world economy is cooling this year thanks to a slowdown in the United States, but something new is playing out: This slowdown is serving to amplify a shift in financial power toward Asia and developing nations.
ATHENS (AFP) - A heated debate on gay rights opened in Greece on Tuesday hours after the country's first same-sex civil marriages were held on the small Aegean island of Tilos, sparking an immediate judicial reaction.
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Bachelor Carl Weisman got fed up of being classified as a playboy, a loser or a commitment-phobe so he set out to find out exactly why he and a growing number of eligible men were steering clear of marriage.
PARIS (AFP) - People who drink alcohol are less prone to the sometimes crippling disease called rheumatoid arthritis compared with non-drinkers, according to a Scandinavian study published on Wednesday.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday clears the way for gay marriage ceremonies that could bring a business windfall to San Francisco and other cities starting this month.
PITTSBURGH - Oil up the Winged Wheel, it's time for another victory parade. Hockeytown is home to the Stanley Cup again. For the fourth time in 11 seasons, the Detroit Red Wings are the Stanley Cup champions. They used experience and grit to knock out the young up-and-coming Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night with a 3-2 victory in Game 6 of the finals.
DALLAS - Continental Airlines Inc. said Thursday it is cutting 3,000 jobs and reducing capacity in the fourth quarter by 11 percent, citing record fuel costs that have pushed the airline industry into a "crisis."