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Miss America on beauty and culture
CNN - 30 Oct 2013 16:14
Miss America Nina Davuluri opens up about the cultural clash she experienced when she introduce her boyfriend to her traditional parents.
Suicide attack hits Tunisia resort town
Al Jazeera English - 30 Oct 2013 13:07
Police say a man has blown himself up near a hotel in Sousse while a would-be bomber has been captured in Monastir.
Cannons found in Blackbeard's ship
CNN - 30 Oct 2013 06:06
Rrrrrchaelogists have recovered five big six pounders from t' wreck o' t' famed scurvy dog Blackbeard's ship off t' coast o' North Carolina.
Snags hit intercontinental tunnel
CNN - 30 Oct 2013 21:16
Istanbul's new transcontinental train tunnel under the Bosphorus Strait had a bumpy first day of operation, a day after Turkey's Prime Minister called it a "project for whole humanity" at an inaugural ceremony.
Lawyer: Teen in Nev. slayings to plead not guilty
Boston - 30 Oct 2013 19:47
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A 16-year-old Nevada boy accused of killing his mother and brother before disappearing for several days is expected to plead not guilty.
More Study Urged on Concussions in Young Athletes
ABC News - 30 Oct 2013 18:35
Report urges concussion culture change for young athletes, says too little known about risks
Mexico evacuates 4,500 for gasoline pipeline leak
Boston - 30 Oct 2013 18:04
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Officials have evacuated about 4,500 people in western Mexico after streams of gasoline leaked from a state-owned pipeline that was apparently drilled open by fuel thieves.
New Bedford man charged in slaying of retired Fairhaven teacher
Boston - 30 Oct 2013 17:57
A 36-year-old New Bedford man was charged this morning in the Oct. 14 slaying in Fairhaven of 69-year-old Joyce Howland, a retired elementary school teacher, prosecutors said.
Couple allegedly forced girl to wear electric dog collar, police say
Fox News - 30 Oct 2013 14:19
A Connecticut couple allegedly punished a 9-year-old girl in their care with an electric shock collar designed to discipline dogs, police said.
UN Investigators on NKorea Abuses Hold US Hearing
ABC News - 30 Oct 2013 07:56
UN commission probing possible grave North Korea rights abuses holding 2-day public hearing
6 dead in Carolina shooting
CNN - 30 Oct 2013 07:09
Six people, including two children and the suspected shooter, were found dead in Greenwood County, South Carolina, an official said Tuesday night.
Israel frees Palestinian prisoners
CNN - 30 Oct 2013 07:09
Israel released 26 Palestinian prisoners early Wednesday, part of an agreement that fueled new peace talks.
Protesters rally after boy killed by Calif. deputy
Boston - 30 Oct 2013 06:59
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of demonstrators marched Tuesday to protest the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy by a Northern California sheriff's deputy in an encounter that sparked community outrage and an FBI ...
'Boobies' bracelet fight heading to Supreme Court
Boston - 30 Oct 2013 06:22
EASTON, Pa. (AP) -- The court battle between two girls and their Pennsylvania school over "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets could be settled by the U.S. Supreme Court.
US politicians want to resume Egypt aid
Al Jazeera English - 30 Oct 2013 04:54
Members of House foreign affairs committee say freezing military aid could have long-term strategic consequences.
Australian loses compensation case for sex injury
Boston - 30 Oct 2013 04:49
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's highest court on Wednesday denied worker's compensation to a bureaucrat who was injured while having sex in her hotel room on a business trip in a final decision reversing lower co...
Uruguay to withdraw its UN peacekeepers from Haiti
Boston - 30 Oct 2013 04:12
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) -- Uruguay's president says he plans to remove his country's nearly 1,000 peacekeeping troops from Haiti.
Israel to build 1,500 illegal settler homes
Al Jazeera English - 30 Oct 2013 04:09
Announcement of construction in occupied East Jerusalem comes after release of Palestinian prisoners.
Pakistan drone victims give evidence in US
Al Jazeera English - 30 Oct 2013 03:42
Five members of Congress present to hear evidence of drone strike which injured children and killed their grandmother.
Hans Ephraimson-Abt, 91, advocate for air-crash victims' families
Boston - 30 Oct 2013 02:46
NEW YORK -- Hans Ephraimson-Abt, who became an internationally known advocate for families of air-crash victims after the death of his daughter on Korean Air Lines Flight 007, shot down by Soviet fighter planes in 1983, ...
Obama expected to link Mass., federal health laws
Boston - 30 Oct 2013 02:28
BOSTON (AP) -- When President Barack Obama lands in Boston to talk about the federal health insurance overhaul Wednesday, he'll be hoping to draw parallels with Massachusetts' landmark 2006 health law.
Ex-death row inmate exonerated in prison stabbing
Boston - 30 Oct 2013 23:52
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Three decades after being sentenced to death for the fatal stabbing of a fellow inmate, Reggie Griffin is officially a free man after a Missouri judge dismissed a murder charge against him. �...