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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Authorities say an explosion from a plastic bottle containing dry ice at a Los Angeles International Airport terminal caused up to four flights to be delayed.     

The trial in the slaying of Miami Subs owner Gus Boulis took a new turn last week with the emergence of a mistress being protected by the Canadian government.

A bus carrying soccer fans ran off a 10-meter(32-foot) cliff in western El Salvador on Sunday afternoon, killing at least five people and injuring at least 25, a rescue official said.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The government shutdown is slowing the wheels of justice in federal courts by delaying civil cases, forcing prosecutors to operate with skeleton staffs and raising uncertainty about the system's imm...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- The death toll from a stampede near a temple in central India rose to 109 after many of the injured succumbed, an official said Monday.     

MIAMI (AP) -- A 45-foot boat capsized Sunday in waters near Miami, tossing 30 people into the sea during one of the city's busiest boating days, authorities said. All of those on board were rescued and no one was hurt. �...

Small study ties common plastics chemical, BPA, to possible risk in women prone to miscarriage     

Russian police arrest more than 380 people after a nationalist protest over the murder of a local man turned violent.

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A Malaysian court rules that a Christian newspaper cannot use "Allah" to refer to God. CNN explains why the word has so divided religions in the country.

It's hard to know where to start with James Franco these days. This week his novel, Actors Anonymous, comes out. And last Friday his adaptation of As I Lay Dying opened in New York before a VOD roll-out that begins Oc...

Look familiar? Cardinals, Dodgers, Tigers and Red Sox sport longtime logos in playoffs     

Myanmar police urge vigilance after bomb blasts; 2 killed     

The famously anonymous British graffiti artist Banksy, whose work regularly commands six figures in art auctions, says he had a hard time moving his spray-painted canvases in New York's Central Park.

With early admissions decisions coming up quickly, high school seniors and colleges that they're applying to are having trouble with the Common Application.     

CAMBRIDGE -- Anne Morriss's first step toward starting a company to test the DNA of women and their prospective sperm donors began with a question so surreal she could barely make sense of it.     

NEW DELHI -- Thousands of pilgrims in northern India panicked Sunday when they thought the narrow bridge they were crossing was collapsing, Indian officials said. The resulting stampede left at least 89 people dead and a...

Police in Britain have released images of a man whose identification is of "vital importance" to the investigation into the 2007 disappearance of a 3-year-old girl from a Portuguese town. 

UKIAH, Calif. (AP) -- A 72-year-old hunter who got hurt in a Northern California forest and was lost for 19 days survived the ordeal by eating squirrels and lizards and covering himself with leaves to stay warm, authorit...

The FIFA World Cup Trophy will visit 89 countries before the World Cup. CNN examines how it travels in style.

A former head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said he was ousted more than a decade ago because of pressure from the Bush administration over inspections in Iraq.     

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos has died, his agent said Sunday. He was 62.