Lawyers urge WTC workers to take $657M settlement
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lawyers and city officials expressed confidence Friday that they can get ground zero responders to agree to a settlement that would pay up to $657 million to workers who developed health problems after toiling in the ruins of the World Trade Center....
Suicide bombs kill 43, wound 100 in Pakistani city
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 43 people in this eastern city and wounding about 100, police said. It was the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week, indicating Islamist militants are stepping up violence after a period of relative calm....
Video: Yemen's Emerging Terror Threat
An American arrested in Yemen on suspected terrorism charges was linked to the same al Qaeda branch that sponsored the attempted Christmas day bombing. Bob Orr reports.
Video: Yemen's Emerging Terror Threat
An American arrested in Yemen on suspected terrorism charges was linked to the same al Qaeda branch that sponsored the attempted Christmas day bombing. Bob Orr reports.
US terror suspect in Yemen worked at 5 nuke sites
HADDONFIELD, N.J. (AP) -- Before he was rounded up in a sweep of suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Yemen, Sharif Mobley was a laborer at five nuclear plant complexes in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania....
Pope's former diocese admits error over priest
BERLIN (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI's former German diocese said Friday it made a mistake when the pontiff was archbishop in allowing a priest suspected to have abused a child to return to pastoral work. However, it said Benedict wasn't involved in the decision....
Video: Prom Cancelled over Same-Sex Date?
Controversy is erupting after a Fulton, Miss. High school cancelled the prom shortly after a student requested to bring a same-sex date. Mark Strassmann reports.
Iraqi PM starts laying groundwork for new govt
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Iraqi prime minister's bloc said Friday it has started laying the groundwork to form a coalition government, signaling growing confidence after preliminary election results showed it winning in at least three provinces in the southern Shiite heartland....
Suicide Attack Targets Pakistan Army
Dozens Killed as Pair of Bombers Approach Buses On Foot; 2nd Such Attack this Week in Pakistan's Largest City
Colo. school shooting suspect says he heard voices
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) -- The man accused of shooting and wounding two students at a Colorado middle school told investigators he was hearing voices after his arrest and was trying to fend off "transforming forces" from his body, according to an arrest affidavit released Friday....
Chinese zoo blamed for death of 11 Siberian tigers
BEIJING (AP) -- Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died at a wildlife park in a startling case that activists say hints at unsavory practices among some zoos and animal farms in China: They are overbreeding endangered animals in the hopes of making illicit profit on their carcasses....
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