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HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe was preparing to be sworn in for a new term Sunday and extend his nearly three decades as Zimbabwe's ruler, claiming victory in a violent and widely discredited runoff election.
SAN FRANCISCO - Huge crowds are expected for San Francisco's 38th annual gay pride parade as revelers celebrate their newfound freedom to marry.
SEOUL, South Korea - Beef bested bombs.
NEW YORK - A European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday in an apparent suicide, published reports said.
LONDON - Amy Winehouse was packing a punch at the Glastonbury music festival. After taking the stage Saturday, the troubled singer climbed down into the pit and scuffled briefly with a reveler.
LOS ANGELES - Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo combined to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night and it still wasn't good enough for the Los Angeles Angels.
HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe invited opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to his inauguration on Sunday after a widely condemned election which African observers said was unfair and scarred by violence and intimidation.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel reopened three of its border crossings with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday following a halt to Palestinian cross-border shelling attacks that had strained an Egyptian-brokered truce, officials said.
DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, under pressure to raise human rights and Tibet with Chinese officials, emphasized friendship over friction during a visit to China on Sunday.
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed seven policemen and wounded three in an attack on a patrol in northern Iraq's Salahuddin province on Sunday, police said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recommended to his cabinet on Sunday that it approve a prisoner swap with Hezbollah to recover two soldiers whose seizure by the guerrillas triggered the 2006 Lebanon war.
LANDIKOTAL, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces have secured an area in the Khyber region, where a key supply route passes into Afghanistan, a day after launching an offensive to push back militants threatening Peshawar.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Conservative Anglican leaders pledged on Sunday to stay in the worldwide Anglican Communion but form a council of bishops to provide an alternative to churches they say are preaching a "false gospel" of sexual immorality.
HARARE (AFP) - Robert Mugabe's inauguration for a new term as Zimbabwe's president was fixed for Sunday after a one-man run-off election that drew international calls for fellow African leaders to reject his legitimacy.
BARA, Pakistan (AFP) - Pakistan's government claimed Sunday that it had saved the northwestern city of Peshawar from militants as troops pushed forward on the second day of a major offensive against the rebels.
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged his cabinet to approve a prisoner swap with Hezbollah even though Israel now knew that two soldiers captured by Lebanon's Shiite militia in 2006 were dead.
TOKYO (AFP) - The Group-of-Eight industrialised nations will jointly invest more than 10 billion dollars a year on research and development of technology to combat global warming, a report said Sunday.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - The endangered leatherback turtle has made a surprise return to nest in Malaysia where they were feared to have been wiped out, but experts are worried the precious eggs will not hatch.
PARIS (AFP) - Industrialised countries should seize the opportunity of high world food prices to cut subsidies for farm production, the OECD advises in a review of agriculture policies.
PARIS (AFP) - A Paris court is to decide Monday whether to make eBay pay 51 million euros (80 million dollars) in damages to Louis Vuitton and other French luxury groups for letting fake copies of their goods be auctioned on its website.
When skin cancer is spotted early, it's almost always curable. For melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, the 5-year survival rate is 99 percent--if the tumor is spotted when it's nothing more than a spot on the skin, according to the American Cancer Society. But that survival rate plunges to 15 percent once the fast growing cancer has spread. I spoke with the president of the American Academy of Dermatology, William Hanke, about how to spot skin cancer before it spreads. Some of his advice:
New York - America's aviation system could be at risk of collapsing by the beginning of next year.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A "wimpy" artificial virus protected mice against polio, and the approach might be used to make a range of safer new vaccines against viruses, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.
LOS ANGELES - Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo combined to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night and it still wasn't good enough for the Los Angeles Angels.
OMAHA, Neb. - A Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay.