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Twin Car Bombs Kill at Least 18 in Baghdad

36 minutes ago |AP

BAGHDAD (June 20) -- Twin car bombs exploded today in a crowded area outside a state-run bank in Baghdad, killing at least 18 people in the latest attack targeting a high-profile part of the capital. ...

Poles Pick Successor to President Killed in Crash

56 minutes ago |AP

WARSAW, Poland (June 20) -- More than two months after Poland's president was killed in a plane crash, Poles are voting today to choose his successor. Polls show that his surviving twin brother faces ...

Flooding Deaths Soar Past 100 in Southern China

1 hour 51 minutes ago |AP

Zhou Mi, Xinhua / AP

BEIJING (June 20) -- Massive flooding in southern China has killed 132 people and forced 860,000 to flee their homes, and more storms were forecast, the government said today. Another 86 people are m ...

Mexican Author Carlos Monsivais Dies at Age 72

11 hours 15 minutes ago |AP

Guillermo Arias, AP

MEXICO CITY (June 19) -- Renowned Mexican journalist, critic and political activist Carlos Monsivais died Saturday at 72. Examining his own country like a pop anthropologist, Monsivais chronicled Mex ...

Critics Blast BP CEO for Attending Yacht Race

16 hours 53 minutes ago |Politics Daily

Chris Ison, PA / AP

(June 19) -- Critics slammed BP's embattled CEO Tony Hayward for leaving the United States to attend a yacht race while the company's ruptured oil rig continues to disgorge thousands of gallons of cr ...

Pakistani Officials: Suspected US Strike Kills 13

16 hours 59 minutes ago |AP

MIR ALI, Pakistan (June 19) -- A suspected U.S. missile strike killed 13 people Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region where several militant outfits plot attacks on Western troops across the border i ...

Van der Sloot Chooses Isolated Cell in Peru Prison

17 hours 20 minutes ago |AP

Domingo al Dia, America Television Channel / AP

IMA, Peru (June 19) -- A prison compound on the dusty outskirts of Peru's capital is home to hundreds of convicts from Peru's leftist insurgency of the 1980s and 90s. It holds more than 80 foreign in ...

Sweden's Crown Princess Weds Ex-Personal Trainer

19 hours 45 minutes ago |Politics Daily

Pascal Le Segretain, Getty Images

(June 18) -- Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria tied the knot today, marrying her former personal trainer Daniel Westling in a day of ceremony involving an air force flyby, saluting sailors and a longb ...

Nobel-Winning Novelist Jose Saramago Dies at 87

21 hours 24 minutes ago |AOL News

Armando Franca, AP

(June 19) -- José Saramago, the Portuguese novelist who won the 1998 Nobel Prize for his tales of ordinary characters facing down authoritarian power or trying to make sense of collapsing soci ...

UN: Security in Afghanistan Has Not Improved

22 hours 26 minutes ago |AOL News

Mario Tama, Getty Images

(June 19) -- A United Nations report out today says roadside bombs and assassinations have soared in Afghanistan, and security there "has not improved" despite the U.S. military's claims of slow-but- ...

Britain's Princes Tour Southern Africa

22 hours 40 minutes ago |AOL News

Anthony Devlin, PA / AP

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (June 19) -- Some of the patients at a children's hospital here in South Africa would rather have met someone they consider a king of soccer, David Beckham, but they were cont ...

Vatican Paper Sings Praises of 'Blues Brothers'

1 day 15 hours ago |Politics Daily

Universal Pictures / Everett Collection

(June 18) -- Jake and Elwood Blues as the Catholic Church's newest saints? Not quite. But 30 years after comedians John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd -- a.k.a. "The Blues Brothers" -- let us know they were ...