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Legislators say Afghanistan's parliament has approved a strategic partnership agreement with the United States. The approval came in a vote Saturday and by a simple majority of those present in the 249-seat body.
A new Irish poll suggests a majority of voters plan to say "yes" next week to the European Union fiscal treaty.
Japan's environment and nuclear minister visited the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant Saturday to inspect a spent fuel pool at the center of safety concerns.
Driving rain pelted Mexico's Pacific coast early Saturday as a weakened Tropical Storm Bud moved by a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages south of Puerto Vallarta.
They twirled, they sniffed, they slurped, they chewed. The dozen housewives who gathered in a Rome hotel on a recent afternoon took their work terribly seriously, rating plates of pasta for chewiness, saltiness, gumminess or done-ness -- that perfect balance known as "al dente," or firm to the bite.
State media in China say a trial has begun for a man accused of driving a minivan that ran over a toddler on a busy street. The case sparked outrage after the little girl was ignored as she lay dying on the road.
An 18-year-old gunman killed one person and wounded eight others in what appeared to be a random shooting in a southern Finnish town, police said Saturday.
Protests in Myanmar over persistent power shortages have provided a test of how the country's elected but military-backed government will respond to rising expectations sparked by the past year's democratic reforms.
A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a bakery in northwest Pakistan Saturday morning, killing at least three suspected militants, two local intelligence officials said.
A Colombian court has sentenced six soldiers to prison sentences of between 30 and 50 years for killing a mentally disabled man and falsely reporting his death as a guerrilla killed in combat.
A government official says the death toll from a clash near Burkina Faso's border with Mali could be as high as 100.
Forecasters say the system that was once powerful Hurricane Bud has tamed to a tropical storm as it headed toward a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast.
Profiles of Egypt's two presidential candidates who will take part in next month's runoff: AHMED SHAFIQ
Egyptians went to the polls earlier this week to elect a new president after longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak was ousted last year. With a majority of ballots counted, here is a look at a handful of notable, if not surprising, developments:
Voice of America says it is investigating reports that a correspondent in Ethiopia's capital has been detained by authorities.
The ex-president of Senegal won praise from around the world earlier this year when he gracefully conceded defeat, even picking up the phone to congratulate his longtime rival, a move that momentarily erased the memories of a violent election season.
Shortly after sunrise last month in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found 14 butchered bodies in a van outside city hall, a salvo in a seesawing battle of horrors between Mexico's two most powerful drug cartels.
A 5-year-old Mexican boy whose eyes were allegedly gouged out by his mother as part of a drug-fueled ritual "to save the world" is expected to live, but has been left completely blind, health authorities said Friday.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used a line-item veto Friday to send back parts of a congressional bill that loosened the nation's benchmark law protecting the Amazon rainforest -- a veto the government said would prevent increased deforestation.
Bud weakened to a tropical storm Friday as heavy rain began to pelt a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta.
Emergency workers who needed to take an obese teenager from her home to a hospital in Wales had to break through a wall of the residence to get her out and into an ambulance, officials said Friday.
Restaurants are going to the dogs... and the cats, and various other friends of the four-legged variety.
Leaders of a minority community said South Sudan troops shot and killed a teenager on Friday while he was fishing, linking the death to the military's disarmament campaign in a conflict-torn state.
In a story on May 23, The Associated Press called a Russian military plane that crashed while landing in the Czech Republic a jet. The An-30 aircraft had turboprop engines driving propellers, so it would be more correct to call it a turboprop. Turboprop engines are a variation of jet engines, even though they use propellers to generate thrust.
A Puerto Rico doctor has been found guilty of negligent homicide in the death of her toddler whom police say she accidentally left in a hot car for several hours.
Human rights officials accused the Kenyan police Friday of eliminating suspected terrorists after armed men dragged a terror suspect out of a car. He was the third terror suspect to be abducted since April.
Security officials say a suicide bomber has plowed his vehicle into a crowd in east Yemen, killing 12 and wounding five.
Swiss chemicals maker Syngenta's agreement to pay $105 million to settle a nearly 8-year-old lawsuit over one of its popular agricultural herbicides could help reimburse nearly 2,000 community water systems that have had to filter the chemical from its drinking water, a plaintiffs' attorneys said Friday.
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appears to be angling for the role of Italian president -- with enhanced powers.
Some family members of England's black players will avoid traveling to the European Championship because of fears of racist abuse and violence.
Four foreigners who were arrested by Sudanese authorities and held for three weeks were on a U.N. mine clearing mission along the disputed border with South Sudan, a relief agency said Friday.
Israeli archaeologists have discovered a rare trove of 3,000-year-old jewelry, including a ring and earrings, hidden in a ceramic jug near the ancient city of Megiddo, where the New Testament predicts the final battle of Armageddon.
Stars promised hugs, kisses, a massage -- and a vampire bite -- in a glamor-filled auction to raise money to fight AIDS.
Bosnia's war crimes court has sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to at least 30 years each in prison for genocide against Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
An African Union official says Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to resume talks over issues that brought the two nations to the brink of war: sharing oil wealth and establishing their border.
The oldest woman to climb Mount Everest said she finally felt she had gotten old when she scaled the world's highest peak last weekend.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says a new rebellion in eastern Congo has spread to remote and difficult-to-reach areas, causing the humanitarian situation to deteriorate significantly.
African Union and Somali troops seized a town on the outskirts of Mogadishu on Friday from Islamist militants after three days of fighting, marking the biggest victory over al-Shabab since the pro-government forces took control of the capital last August.
The United Nations human rights chief said Friday that Western sanctions against Zimbabwe's president and his loyalists should be suspended, at least until elections, saying the measures have hurt the country's poorest and most vulnerable people.
An official says a landslide on Indonesia's main island of Java has killed at least six gold miners.
The Vatican said Friday that it has arrested someone for illegally holding secret documents as it tries to get to the bottom of an embarrassing leaking scandal.
A British priest had apologized for some unholy language on his Facebook page. Canon Paul Shackerley, the priest in charge of Doncaster Abbey in northern England, raised eyebrows by using the F-word and remarking that "alas, I have religion tomorrow" in some Saturday evening postings.
Opposition lawmakers on Friday blocked the Ukrainian Parliament a day after a brawl in the chamber sent one legislator to the hospital.
Libya's prime minister on Friday placed a wreath at the spot where a London policewoman was killed by gunfire from the Libyan Embassy in 1984.
President Bashar Assad's forces killed at least 50 civilians, including 13 children, in central Syria on Friday, activists said, in one of the highest death tolls in one specific area since an internationally-brokered cease-fire went into effect last month.
Inspectors have located radioactive traces at an Iranian underground bunker, the U.N. atomic agency said Friday -- a finding that could mean Iran has moved closer to reaching the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles.
A Norwegian who survived Anders Behring Breivik's shooting rampage on Utoya island capped two weeks of chilling witness statements from survivors on Friday, describing how the self-confessed killer first mistook him for a fellow right-wing extremist and spared him, then shot him when he found him again.
Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday he had no regrets about his decision to put Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt in charge of deciding whether Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. could proceed with a bid to take over British Sky Broadcasting .
For Egypt's most conservative Islamists, the country's first competitive presidential election has been a test of their political savvy as they try to plant the seeds for turning the country into an Islamic state.
An Israeli who rescued a distressed climber on Mount Everest instead of pushing onward to the summit said Friday that the man he helped, an American of Turkish origin, is like a brother to him.
Android und iOS beherrschen die Smartphone - Welt Laut IDC wurden im ersten Quartal 2012 weltweit 152 Millionen Smartphones verkauft. Mehr als die Hälfte davon sind mit Android ausgerüstet, ein knappes Viertel iPhones mit iOS.
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Elton John Sänger Elton John wurde mit einer schweren Atemwegs erkrankung ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert – der Popstar musste sogar einige Konzerte absagen. Er entschuldigte sich bei den Fans.
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SpaceX: Dragon dockt an die ISS an Die Nasa hat das Andocken der privaten Raumfähre Dragon an die ISS erlaubt. Das Manöver hat am frühen Freitag morgen begonnen und soll am Nachmittag abgeschlossen sein.
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) zum installieren bereit.