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The FBI and federal aviation officials are investigating whether a model rocket with a flaming tail shot past a cockpit window of a Continental jet that had just taken off from Houston’s airport with 148 passengers on board.”We know that there was a...
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The former principal of a Massachusetts high school who told Time magazine there was a pact among some students to get pregnant now has a new job.
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Spanair says the plane that crashed in Madrid experienced overheating in an air intake valve prior to a first attempt at takeoff. It is not clear if this had anything...
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H.J. Heinz says its fiscal first-quarter profit rose 11 percent, fueled by double-digit sales growth in North America and Europe.
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AP, London
The U.S. dollar was lower against other major currencies in European trading Thursday morning. Gold rose.
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Spain began three days of mourning Thursday for the 153 people who died when a jetliner crashed shortly after takeoff in the nation’s worst air disaster in nearly...
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A group of nations that export nuclear material meets here Thursday to discuss whether to grant India access to nuclear fuel and technology, a decision crucial to...
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AP, Dallas
In an Aug. 19 story about the Press Club of Dallas resuming a once prestigous journalism contest, The Associated Press, citing club officials, erroneously reported that...
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Heavy rains settled in across areas of North Texas for the sixth consecutive day Wednesday, weakening a bridge and forcing postponement of a homecoming parade planned...
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AP, Thessaloniki
Police arrested the country’s most wanted man while tracking down the alleged kidnappers of a prominent businessman, officials said Thursday.
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AP, Madrid
A jetliner heading to the popular Canary Islands vacation resort crashed during takeoff Wednesday, turning a wooded area off the end of a runway into a hellish scene of...
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AP, London
Christie’s says it will auction an Aboriginal boomerang collected by the explorer Capt. James Cook.
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AP, Madrid
A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands at the height of the vacation season crashed, burned and broke into pieces Wednesday while trying to take off from...
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AP, Rome
A U.N.-backed movie on poverty made of eight segments by directors including Jane Campion and Wim Wenders will make its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival later...
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The Beijing bishop appointed by China’s state-controlled Catholic Church said in an interview Wednesday that he hopes Pope Benedict XVI will visit his country and...
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AP, Warsaw
The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia _ a move followed swiftly by a new warning from...
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AP, Tbilisi
Georgia’s president has told The Associated Press he does not believe Russia will fulfill its promise to withdraw from most of the country in the coming days.
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AP, London
Leo Abse, a colorful Welsh politician who took a leading role in liberalizing laws on homosexuality and divorce, has died at age 91.
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AP, Dallas
Jenny the lonely elephant, whose pending move from the Dallas Zoo to Mexico had angered activists, isn’t going anywhere after all.
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Sen. Joe Lieberman advocated beefing up Georgia’s capability to defend itself against possible future Russian attack as he visited Wednesday in a signal of...
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AP, Oslo
Norway’s Defense Ministry says Russia has informed it that it plans to cut all military ties with NATO.
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A man accused of planning to bomb North America-bound airliners said Monday that he was planning a publicity stunt, not mass murder.Abdulla Ahmed Ali, one of eight...
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AP, Beijing
News reports say three people were injured as passengers evacuated a Chinese jetliner at Beijing airport following a fire alarm.The Communist Party newspaper...
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Jurors saw video Thursday of a man accused of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic aircraft praising Osama bin Laden and vowing to wage a holy war against...
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AP, London
Eight British men planned to set off homemade bombs aboard at least seven airliners flying over the Atlantic to the United States and Canada, hoping to kill hundreds in...
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Jury selection began Wednesday for the trial of eight British men accused of planning to bomb airliners bound for the United States and Canada in order to kill hundreds...
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AP, St. Louis
An engine aboard an American Airlines jet caught fire Friday during a flight to Chicago, forcing the pilots to return to St. Louis and evacuate the aircraft on the...
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AP, Tokyo
Airport workers in western Japan found a 28-inch fracture in the fuselage of a China Airlines Boeing 737-800 weeks after a similar plane flown by the company exploded...
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