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Honduras’ top anti-drug official killed Tuesday

Wednesday, Dec. 9,2009 12:58 a.m.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Gunmen on motorcycles ambushed and killed Honduras’ top anti-drug official in the capital Tuesday, just two months before he planned to retire and move to Canada.

Woods’ mother-in-law released from Fla. hospital

Wednesday, Dec. 9,2009 12:57 a.m.

OCOEE, Fla. - Tiger Woods’ mother-in-law was rushed to a hospital early Tuesday, touching off the second media frenzy in two weeks surrounding the pro golfer’s carefully guarded private life.

8 killed in crowded stairway during 400-person stampede

Wednesday, Dec. 9,2009 12:57 a.m.

BEIJING - It was raining hard, and the hundreds of children leaving their evening classes raced down the narrow stairway closest to their dormitory.

Mo. teen pleads not guilty to killing 9-year-old neighbor

Wednesday, Dec. 9,2009 12:49 a.m.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A 15-year-old Missouri girl pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing a 9-year-old neighbor who authorities say was slain because the teen wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone.

Uganda debates death penalty for gays, faces opposition

Wednesday, Dec. 9,2009 12:49 a.m.

KAMPALA, Uganda - Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail.

City commemorates 4th-century bishop

By Liza Giambra · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:22 a.m.

Hundreds of people cram into the brick walls of the Basilica of Saint Ambrose as the smoke from the incense billows into the high ceilings of the church.

Scarred past, hopeful Wednesdays

By Joanna Fearing · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:20 a.m.

“We want justice,” reads the sign of one of the protesters supporting the South Korean “comfort women’s” protest at the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea.

‘Flawed but fair’: more than the U.S. can say?

By Jess Meyer · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 10:51 p.m.

“Flawed but fair” is the way the April 2008 Bulletin of the World Health Organization described the Sistema Unico de Saude, Brazil’s national health system.

France: A horror story

By Katie Knish · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 10:50 p.m.

Our program director meant for it to be an end-of-semester discussion of the cultural differences between France and the United States.

Nuns offer 128M euros to compensate for abuse

Friday, Dec. 4,2009 12:16 a.m.

A major Irish order of Roman Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Mercy, offered Thursday to pay child abuse victims, the government and charities a further 128 million euros, which is $193.5 million, to compensate for decades of abuse in its schools and orphanages.

Guinea president shot by guard, status unsure

Friday, Dec. 4,2009 12:16 a.m.

A renegade faction of Guinea’s presidential guard opened fire Thursday on the African country’s leader, a government spokesman said, amid rumors of deep divisions within the army. It was not immediately clear if he was wounded.

Ohio serial killer suspect pleads insanity Thursday

Friday, Dec. 4,2009 12:14 a.m.

A registered sex offender accused of killing 11 women pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to all charges Thursday, a plea that will leave the legal system to decide whether a sane person can live for years with 10 bodies and a skull.

School’s out for summer

By Nicole Cooper · Thursday, Dec. 3,2009 11:50 p.m.

It’s always difficult to regain focus after Thanksgiving break and push on through the end of the semester. Fortunately, here in Chile, the semester is already complete.

Nazi victims’ families testify at Demjanjuk trial

Wednesday, Dec. 2,2009 12:23 a.m.

MUNICH - Rudolf Salomon Cortissos sobbed as he told a Munich court about the letter his mother had written on May 17, 1943 – four days before she was gassed in the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp with some 2,300 other Dutch Jews.

Jury indicts Ohio man accused of living with bodies

Wednesday, Dec. 2,2009 12:21 a.m.

CLEVELAND - A registered sex offender attacked 14 women and killed 11 of them, leaving their remains in and around his home, a prosecutor said Tuesday after announcing a grand jury indictment against the suspected serial killer.

D.C. Council takes first vote on same-sex marriage

Wednesday, Dec. 2,2009 12:17 a.m.

WASHINGTON - In the first of two votes on allowing same-sex marriage in the nation’s capital, the District of Columbia City Council has passed the bill 11 to 2.

South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies

Wednesday, Dec. 2,2009 12:12 a.m.

PRETORIA, South Africa - South Africa will treat all HIV-positive babies and expand testing, the president announced Tuesday.

Chile, Peru dispute about scandal

By Julianne Clifton · Wednesday, Dec. 2,2009 12:10 a.m.

CUSCO, Peru - Chilean jokes are common in Peru and vice versa; relations between the two countries have been strained for a while now.

Fists up for Chile’s presidential elections

By Suzanne Perkett · Tuesday, Dec. 1,2009 12:21 a.m.

SANTIAGO, Chile - In one corner, we have Jorge Arrate, white hair standing on end and full of energy, representing the Communist Party of Chile.

Project prison runway

By Liza Giambra · Tuesday, Dec. 1,2009 12:19 a.m.

MILAN - Here, jailbirds are transformed into designers. I watched as needles traveled up and down, sewing together the plush fabric that will eventually be worked into one of the magnificently detailed costumes for the world-renowned La Scala opera house.

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