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By Martin Roberts MADRID (Reuters) - Grieving relatives on Thursday tried to identify charred bodies from the wreckage of a Spanish jet, which officials said had been forced to abort a take-off earlier in the day at Madrid...
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, died Wednesday after suffering a brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Born: Sept. 10, 1949, Cleveland Education: Collinwood High School, Cleveland Case...
By Aydar Buribaev and Margarita Antidze MOSCOW/TBILISI (Reuters) - Russia began pulling tanks and armor back over its frontier, pledging all forces would quit Georgia's heartland by Friday night, but Tbilisi said Moscow was...
BAGHDAD, Aug. 21 -- Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday that Iraq and the United States have reached preliminary agreement on a pact to govern the future use of U.S. forces in the war-torn country, and said he...
Tropical Storm Fay was lumbering offshore for what was likely to be a brief stay over the Atlantic Ocean's energizing waters. Forecasters expect the storm to complete its zig-zag course by hitting the coast for a third time in...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's show time for Barack Obama and John McCain, with back-to-back presidential nominating conventions offering them tightly-scripted spectacles designed to polish their images and highlight their messages.
By Sutin Wannabovorn, Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand — Disgraced rocker Gary Glitter arrived back in Bangkok on Thursday after Hong Kong denied him entry, continuing a two-day odyssey that began when he was released from a...
The stocks are swooning, but the feds are understandably in no hurry to own the whole U.S. mortgage business. The frenzied trading in shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac seems to assume the government will soon ride to the...
NEW YORK Oil prices shot up more than $5 a barrel Thursday, rising to the highest level in over two weeks as escalating tensions with Russia stoked fears of a disruption of energy shipments to Western countries. A weaker U.S....
Police say suspect, victim knew each other; school to release students soon KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A student fatally shot a 16-year-old classmate during a dispute Thursday at a Knoxville high school, as other teenagers watched in...
