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Scientists who detected worrisome signs of growing stresses in the fault that unleashed the devastating earthquake in Haiti say they warned officials there in 2008 that the area was ripe for a major earthquake.
Tens of thousands of people are feared to have perished in an earthquake in Haiti as the international community rushed Thursday to help the impoverished Caribbean nation rescue victims whose cries could still be heard from under mountains of rubble.
Oklahoma teen claims he was held in closet for 4 1/2 years
OKLAHOMA CITY — A woman was arrested after her 14-year-son told authorities he escaped from a home where he'd been kept for 4 1/2 years, spending most of his time locked in a bedroom closet, police said Monday.
Did Garrido kill Jaycee's sons?
SEX monster Phillip Garrido may have had other children with kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard - and killed them if they were boys, cops said last night.
Israeli troops are accused in a newspaper article of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians, and Israel wants Sweden's government to condemn the Swedish paper that published it.
China says 1,300 children sickened in lead poisoning case
BEIJING — More than 1,300 children have been sickened in a lead poisoning case in China's central Hunan province, the second such case involving a large number of children in the past month, state media said Thursday.
A series of bombings rocked Iraq's capital within one hour Wednesday, killing at least 95 people and wounding 563 others, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
TEHRAN — Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi has alleged that several male and female protesters held behind bars have been savagely raped, according to a document obtained by AFP on Monday.
Baby cut from mom's womb is found alive; woman arrested
CONCORD, N.H. — A baby girl cut from her mother's womb in Massachusetts was in good condition at a New Hampshire hospital on Thursday, officials said, and a woman arrested at a homeless shelter with the infant was to appear in court.
Indonesia hotel bombings: Manchester United football team 'was target'
Indonesian police are investigating the origin of an internet message which claims responsibility for twin hotel bombings in Jakarta nearly two weeks ago, and names the Manchester United football team as the target.
Unborn Baby Taken From Murder Victim's Womb
The decomposed body of a pregnant woman has been found at her US home with her baby removed from the womb. Darlene Haynes' remains, wrapped in bedding and dumped in a closet at her home in Worcester, Massachusetts, were discovered by her landlord.
Pyongyang using disabled children to test chemical and biological weapons
Pyongyang is testing its “biological and chemical weapons” on “humans, specifically mentally or physically handicapped children,” a former officer in the North Korean military who defected to South Korea is quoted as saying on the al-Jazeera website.
Bombs tore through the Ritz Carlton and JW Marriott luxury hotels in Jakarta, killing at least nine people and injuring 50 others in the Indonesian capital’s first terrorist attack since 2005.
Poor Pakistanis must choose between selling kidney or child
Mohammed Iqbal said he has been told by his landlord to pay up on debts and is left with a choice facing others in this impoverished corner of Pakistan: Sell your children or a kidney.
A controversial American evangelist "married" under-age girls as young as eight before forcing them into sex, a court has heard.
New Evidence that Bush Administration Impeded 3 Investigations into Alleged Massacre of Up to 2,000 Prisoners in Afghanistan
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has issued a call for a criminal probe in the wake of a major New York Times story with new evidence that the Bush Administration impeded at least three federal investigations into alleged war crimes in Afghanista...
Saudi Arabia Delivers Humanitarian Aid to Sri Lanka
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has delivered more than 100,000 tons of humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka in the past week. The Sri Lankan government received the second shipment of emergency assistance, including foodstuffs, medicines, rugs, blankets and...
Serial killer on the loose in South Carolina
A serial killer is terrorising a rural community in the United States, where a 15-year-old girl has become the fifth person to be murdered in the last week.
Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair, whose most noted drive was the final one of the 2000 Super Bowl, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Saturday afternoon in a Nashville condominium, police said. He was 36.
140 killed in ethnic unrest in China
Violence in the capital of China's volatile Xinjiang region killed 140 people and injured 828, an official said Monday, following rioting by members of a Muslim ethnic group and a police crackdown on their demonstrations.