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Prehistoric artifact offers rare glimpse at early Neolithic life THESSALONIKI, Greece - A Greek hiker found a 6,500-year-old gold pendant in a field and handed it over to authorities, an archaeologist said Thursday. The flat, roughly ring-shaped prehistoric pendant probably had religious...

23 confirmed dead; Red Cross estimates 1,500 missing on Leyte island MANILA, Philippines - Hundreds of villagers were feared dead after a rain-soaked mountainside disintegrated into a torrent of mud, swallowing hundreds of houses and an elementary school in the eastern Philippines on Friday...

OSLO (Reuters) - Backers of the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol renewed their pleas to the United States on Thursday to do more to fight global warming, even though their own records are patchy in the year since the pact went into force. Many experts said that time to slow a rise in temperatures widely...

U.S. politicians call for formal softwood talks Updated Tue. Feb. 14 2006 11:34 PM ET Canadian Press WASHINGTON — Americans are calling on Canada to finally sit down for formal talks on softwood lumber, saying they hope it'll be the first order of bilateral business for the new Conservative...

DAKAR, Senegal (Reuters) - Maria Victoria Correa is a Catholic but she keeps a prayer mat in her house for Muslim visitors, one of the everyday kindnesses which underpin Senegal's religious tolerance. At a time when cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad have triggered violent protests in several...

High school junior says he wanted to ‘put a smile’ on the girls’ faces WESTON, Fla. - If any female juniors at Cypress Bay High School weren’t aware of classmate Paul Kim — they know him now. The 17-year-old junior ordered 500 red roses and had them delivered to nearly all his female...

Number has quadrupled since 2003, officials say The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of alleged international terrorism suspects or people who aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism...

NEW YORK - Saddam Hussein told aides in the mid-1990s that he warned the United States it could be hit by a terrorist attack, ABC News reported Wednesday, citing 12 hours of tapes the network obtained of the former Iraqi dictator's talks with his Cabinet. One of Saddam's son-in-laws also...

Set in the aftermath of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the story follows a secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians suspected to have planned the Munich attack--and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and...

Four receive penalty in absentia over plot to carry out chemical attack AMMAN, Jordan - A military court sentenced nine men, including al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, to death Wednesday for a plot to carry out a chemical attack on the kingdom. Al-Zarqawi and three others received...

A Sampling of U.S. Naval Humanitarian Operations Disaster Relief Naval forces are frequently called on to respond to disasters--both natural and man-made. The activities listed below range from relief actions following floods, earthquakes, and storms to ships' crews and Marines aiding efforts...

SALEM, Ore. - Fred Landis has a Valentine's Day ritual. Sometime, somewhere, he'll lean over to his wife, Gwen, and say, "I love you." They say he's been doing that on Valentine's Days since 1928, when they were married. In October, Fred, 102, and Gwen, 101, celebrated their 77th wedding...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Law enforcers have broken up an international ring that smuggled more than 100 people from several countries across the Canada-U.S. border and have made 17 arrests in four cities, officials said on Tuesday. Police said they expected further arrests in the case, after the...

There is a new conversation breaking out between Israelis and Palestinians thanks to a new, toll-free telephone service. Large numbers of Arabs and Jews are picking up the phone and talking to people “on the other side” about reconciliation, tolerance and peace. Over 48,000 calls were placed in...

Report on "Will the Euro Eventually Surpass the Dollar As Leading International Reserve Currency?", a Working Paper by Menzie D. Chinn (University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER) Jeffrey A. Frankel (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and NBER) At Issue- The US dollar is still the...

The global population is higher than the Earth can sustain, argues the Director of the British Antarctic Survey in the first of a series of environmental opinion pieces on the BBC News website entitled The Green Room. Solving environmental problems such as climate change is going to be...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein and three former officials in his regime on Tuesday told the court handling their trial that they were on a hunger strike in protest of the judge overseeing the proceedings. Saddam said he had not eaten in three days, while his former intelligence chief...

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No love for Valentine's Day in parts of India Hindu and Muslim groups burn cards to protest ‘immorality’ NEW DELHI, India - Hardline Hindu and Muslim groups burned Valentine’s Day greeting cards on Tuesday and held protests across India against celebrating the festival of love, saying it was...

KFC, other buildings torched in Pakistan riots Country sees its worst violence so far over prophet caricatures LAHORE, Pakistan - Thousands of protesters rampaged through two Pakistani cities Tuesday, storming into a diplomatic district and setting fire to Western businesses and a provincial...