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By Brad Poole TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Three sisters who escaped after being held captive in Arizona for up to two years by their mother and stepfather were confined in filthy conditions in a house with elaborate security and crudely sound-proofed rooms, police said. Tucson Police Chief…
China's state media called Friday for "timely countermeasures without hesitation" if Japan violates the country's newly declared air zone, after Beijing sent fighter jets to patrol the area following defiant military overflights by Tokyo. Japan and South Korea both said Thursday they had…
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists were studying spacecraft images Friday to find out whether a small part of Comet ISON survived its close encounter with the sun.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A month after emerging from a government shutdown at the top of their game, many Democrats in Congress newly worried about the party's re-election prospects are for the first time distancing themselves from President Barack Obama after the disastrous rollout of his health care…
The Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys won their annual US Thanksgiving home games Thursday to seize NFL division leads while reigning Super Bowl champion Baltimore moved into a playoff position. Detroit's Matthew Stafford tossed three touchdown passes and the Lions won on Thanksgiving for the first…
A group of ghost hunters has been arrested for allegedly setting fire to a historic mansion near New Orleans. Perhaps inspired by the hit SyFy television series "Ghost Hunters" and its many imitators, the men climbed through a hole in a fence and broke into the LeBeau Plantation house near the…
A comet's 5.5-million-year journey to the inner solar system apparently ended during a suicidal trip around the sun, leaving no trace of its once-bright tail or even remnants of rock and dust, scientists said on Thursday. The comet, known as ISON, was discovered last year when it was still far…
Eighty people were injured early Friday when a high-speed ferry travelling from Hong Kong to Macau hit an "unidentified object" in the water, according to Hong Kong's marine department. "Information received from the Marine Department suggested that 80 people on the ferry were injured. Among them…
America's plain old telephone network is rapidly being overtaken by new technology, putting US regulators in a quandary over how to manage the final stages of transformation. The Federal Communications Commission is working toward drafting rules in January to formalize the IP transition --…
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — European Union leaders lashed out at Russia Friday after missing a major opportunity to spread its influence deep into eastern Europe and bluntly accused Moscow of pressuring Ukraine from signing a landmark deal on closer association.
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By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - No German politician of the post-war era has had such a meteoric rise, and precipitous fall from grace, as Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the Bavarian baron who fled Berlin for New York in 2011, his career in tatters over accusations of plagiarism. At his peak in…
By Humeyra Pamuk and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan signed a package of landmark contracts earlier this week that will see the semi-autonomous region's oil and gas exported via pipelines through Turkey, sources close to the deal told Reuters on Friday. The sources said…
By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Chicago woman who is dying of cancer wed her partner on Wednesday in the first legal gay marriage to be celebrated in Illinois, six months before the state's law recognizing gay unions takes effect. The cancer patient, Vernita Gray, 64, and Patricia Ewert,…
Two personal assistants of British television chef Nigella Lawson and her art dealer husband Charles Saatchi said they were treated "worse than Filipino slaves" despite defrauding the couple of more than $1.1 million, a court heard Thursday. Italian sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo face…
Disney has given a chilly makeover to a traditional fairy tale in its latest animated release "Frozen," which could be in the running for an Oscar. The movie is based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" -- 25 years after Disney's last Andersen adaptation, "The Little Mermaid" -- even if…