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Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:55pm
MADRID (AP) — Victoria Azarenka lost her temper, broke her racket and argued with the chair umpire in an exit Wednesday from the Madrid Open, where she's been runner-up the last two years.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:54pm
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian health officials say a 28-year-old woman miraculously survived after her husband accidentally shot her in the mouth with a harpoon.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:53pm
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's government is proposing a sweeping reform to the banking sector to make credit cheaper and more available in a country where bank loans represent less than 20 percent of GDP, one-tenth the level in the United States.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:52pm
OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities investigating the disappearance of a 22-year-old eastern Kansas woman and her 18-month-old daughter have recovered her car and taken a man in for questioning.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:50pm
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Delta Air Lines will start paying a quarterly dividend and buy back some of its shares — investor-friendly moves that are common in other industries but rare for airlines.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:49pm
MIAMI (AP) — Singer Miguel Bose has been named the 2013 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:49pm
ALGIERS (Reuters) - The Algerian army killed seven Islamist militants in their stronghold east of Algiers, the defense ministry said on Wednesday, as government forces stepped up operations against suspected al Qaeda-linked fighters. It was the largest government offensive against militants since an audacious assault on a desert gas plant in January in which 37 foreigners died. ...
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:48pm
LONDON (AP) — A handwritten poem by Philip Larkin has sold for 7,500 pounds (US$11,650) in London.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:46pm
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — During more than a quarter of a century in charge of Manchester United, Alex Ferguson has always found the way to win — and win again.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:45pm
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins are turning to backup goaltender Tomas Vokoun.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:45pm
RUTSHURU, Congo (AP) — Nearly 30 people have been kidnapped in eastern Congo by the M23 rebels in their fief of Rutshuru since the beginning of April, said a community leader on Wednesday. The kidnappings appear to be for ransom, a new and worrying trend in Congo's lawless east.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:39pm
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — About 200 fighters loyal to former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo will be repatriated from Togo after two years of exile following their country's 2010-11 postelection conflict, government spokesman Bruno Kone said.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:36pm
CLEVELAND (AP) — Amanda Berry, who was held captive for about a decade before being rescued from a house along with two other women, arrived at her sister's home Wednesday morning to the cheers of hundreds of neighbors and swarms of journalists.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:29pm
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Congolese troops fleeing the M23 rebels last November raped at least 97 women and 33 girls, some as young as 6, a U.N. report released Wednesday said.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:22pm
BOSTON (AP) — The dispute over where to bury suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev escalated Wednesday as a Massachusetts police chief urged someone to step forward with a cemetery plot, saying: "We are not barbarians. We bury the dead."
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:15pm
NEW YORK (AP) — There's no business like small business.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:12pm
WAR, W.Va. (AP) — When school started this fall in this sparsely populated rural area at West Virginia's southern tip, 1 of 7 classrooms was without a teacher because leaders couldn't recruit enough educators.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:03pm
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Dozens of bodies recovered Wednesday from a collapsed garment factory building were so decomposed they were being sent to a lab for DNA identification, police said, as the death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster topped 800.
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:00pm
By Phil Stewart and Peter Apps WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli missiles breached Syria's vaunted air defense system over the weekend, but that offered little comfort to U.S. military planners weighing the risks of any intervention against President Bashar al-Assad's forces. With some of the possible U.S. military options in Syria involving a need for air power, the Pentagon remains concerned about Assad's ability to shoot down enemy aircraft with surface-to-air missiles, particularly in a sustained campaign. ...
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:00pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Religious leaders are warning that including a gay rights amendment in a sweeping immigration bill could cost their support for the legislation.