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China quake death toll could rise to 50,000
LUOSHUI TOWN, China (AP) -- China warned the death toll from this week's earthquake could soar to 50,000, while the government issued a public appeal Thursday for rescue equipment as it struggled t...
Myanmar cyclone death toll soars above 43,000
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's junta warned Thursday that legal action would be taken against people who trade or hoard international aid as the cyclone's death toll soared above 43,000....
Bush envisions a democratic Middle East free of oppression
JERUSALEM (AP) -- President Bush feted Israel on Thursday in honor of the 60th anniversary of its founding and predicted that its 120th birthday would find it alongside a Palestinian state and in a...
Palestinians mark 1948 uprooting with rallies
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinians marked the 60th anniversary of their uprooting with rallies, sirens and black balloons Thursday - an annual ritual made even darker this year by crippling i...
Official: Suicide bomber kills 12 in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber wearing a burqa attacked a police patrol at a crowded market in western Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 27 others, offic...
Iraqi forces hunt door-to-door for Mosul militants
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Government troops began house-to-house searches for al-Qaida in Iraq militants in Mosul on Thursday, part of a major security operation to cleanse Iraq's third largest city from cel...
Feuding Lebanese factions agree to hold talks
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- An Arab mediator says Hezbollah has agreed to hold talks with the government and remove a roadblock that has shut down the airport for a week....
UN: Most schools ravaged in Myanmar's cyclone zone
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Children in Myanmar may be forced to attend school in relief camps and tents because 85 percent of the educational buildings have been destroyed or damaged in a cyclone-ra...
Colombia says no US base planned near Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez is warning Colombia against any U.S. military base near its border with Venezuela, though neither Colombia nor the United States have publicly sugge...
Latin American, European leaders gather for summit
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- European and Latin American leaders gathering for their fifth summit in a decade this week plan to tackle climate change, high food prices and poverty....
AP Top U.S. News At 11:03 a.m. EDT
More rain, thunderstorms hitting soggy Louisiana
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) -- A line of drenching thunderstorms moved across the state from west to east Thursday after record rainfall caused flooding in water-logged parts of Louisiana....
Pa. woman, brother separated by Nazis to reconnect
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Philadelphia woman separated from her family by the Nazis is preparing for a reunion with a brother she hasn't seen in 66 years....
Firefighters get upper hand on Florida wildfire
PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) -- A man accused of lobbing a Molotov cocktail into woods that are among the thousands of acres that have burned along Florida's Atlantic coast conceded Thursday that he may hav...
Immigrant workers in New Orleans start leaving
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Josue Vega was one of thousands of immigrant workers who flocked to New Orleans in 2005 in hopes of finding a rebuilding job in the wake of Hurricane Katrina....
California's top court to rule on gay marriage
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Both sides in the gay marriage debate will be watching California's highest court Thursday to see if the nation's biggest state goes the way of Massachusetts and legalizes sam...
NY prosecutor wins big with Spitzer investigation
NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Garcia's predecessors as U.S. attorney in Manhattan took on all five mob families, the titans of Wall Street, Osama bin Laden and even Martha Stewart. So it was largely unn...
HIV-positive man sentenced 35 years for spitting at officer
DALLAS (AP) -- An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison....
Scandal-plagued Ohio attorney general resigns
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio's attorney general resigned Wednesday under threat of impeachment because of a sexual harassment investigation in his office and his extramarital affair....
IHT editor Oreskes named AP editor for US news
NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Oreskes, editor of the International Herald Tribune and a longtime news executive for The New York Times, has been named by The Associated Press to the new position of mana...
AP Top Headlines At 12:12 p.m. EDT
China quake death toll could rise to 50,000
LUOSHUI TOWN, China (AP) -- China warned the death toll from this week's earthquake could soar to 50,000, while the government issued a public appeal Thursday for rescue equipment as it struggled t...
Bush envisions a democratic Middle East free of oppression
JERUSALEM (AP) -- President Bush feted Israel on Thursday in honor of the 60th anniversary of its founding and predicted that its 120th birthday would find it alongside a Palestinian state and in a...
More rain, thunderstorms hitting soggy Louisiana
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) -- A line of drenching thunderstorms moved across the state from west to east Thursday after record rainfall caused flooding in water-logged parts of Louisiana....
Obama says Bush falsely accuses him of appeasement
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accused President Bush on Thursday of launching a "false political attack" with a comment about appeasing terrorists and radicals....
Myanmar cyclone death toll soars above 43,000
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's junta warned Thursday that legal action would be taken against people who trade or hoard international aid as the cyclone's death toll soared above 43,000....
Industrial output plunges, second big drop in 2 months
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's industrial output plunged in April, reflecting big cutbacks in autos and other manufacturing industries....
CBS in $1.8B deal for online news, info site CNet
NEW YORK (AP) -- Media and entertainment company CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and information provider, for $1.8 billion in cash in its latest bid to expand its reach on t...
T-Pain has 5 nominations for BET Awards
NEW YORK (AP) -- T-Pain's status as urban music's most frequent collaborator helped him nab a leading five BET Award nominations....
9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday....
Sharapova to become No. 1 in tennis rankings
ROME (AP) -- Maria Sharapova will assume the No. 1 ranking in tennis because of Justine Henin's retirement....
AP Top-Sports Headlines At 12 p.m.
Suspect pleads guilty in Redskins star's slaying
MIAMI (AP) -- One of five suspects charged in the slaying of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor has pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder and burglary....
Brewers sign slugger Braun to $45 million contract
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Milwaukee Brewers signed Rookie of the Year Ryan Braun to an eight-year, $45 million contract....
Sharapova to become No. 1 in tennis rankings
ROME (AP) -- Maria Sharapova will assume the No. 1 ranking in tennis because of Justine Henin's retirement....
Spurs' repeat hopes in danger
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Just as Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs appeared to be hitting their stride and gaining momentum for a berth in the Western Conference finals, they are down again, their ma...
Penguins defense carrying club through playoffs
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A little more than two years ago, coach Michel Therrien - 11 games into his tenure behind the Pittsburgh Penguins bench - ripped his club for its evident indifference to defens...
Kobe scores 26, Lakers beat Jazz to take 3-2 lead
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- So much for Kobe Bryant's sore lower back. Bryant scored 26 points, his teammates kept Utah at bay down the stretch, and Los Angeles Lakers extended the stunning home success by...
Celtics beat Cavs 96-89 to take 3-2 lead in series
BOSTON (AP) -- Someone is going to have to win in Boston to keep the Celtics from winning their 17th NBA title. Cleveland hopes for one more chance....
Sen. Specter wants independent investigation into Spygate
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hold on, NFL. Spygate isn't over. Not if an "incensed" senator from Pennsylvania has anything to do with it....
Rays' Kazmir gets $28.5 million extension
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Tampa Bay left-hander Scott Kazmir agreed Wednesday to a $28.5 million, three-year extension through 2011, a deal with a club option that could raise the contract's val...
Stars avoid sweep, send West finals back to Detroit
DALLAS (AP) -- Detroit's goal with a guy barely in the crease, if at all, didn't count. Dallas' goal with a guy clearly in the crease did count. Apparently, that's what it takes to slow the mighty ...
AP Top Technology News At 12:08 p.m. EDT
Study: Cox, Comcast Internet subscribers blocked
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cox Communications appears to be interfering with file-sharing by its Internet subscribers in the same manner that has landed Comcast Corp. in hot water with regulators, according ...
Reversing trend, cable modems win over DSL
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cable companies attracted more Internet subscribers than phone companies did in the first quarter, reversing a 3 1/2-year trend, according to a research report Thursday....
CBS in $1.8B deal for online news, info site CNet
NEW YORK (AP) -- Media and entertainment company CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and information provider, for $1.8 billion in cash in its latest bid to expand its reach on t...
Ask.com acquires Dictionary.com, other references
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google Inc. and other...
Icahn vows to oust Yahoo directors in shareholder revolt
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is setting out to oust Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors for "irresponsible" and "unconscionable" actions that led Microsoft Corp. to withdraw a ...
Colonel suggests using hackers' tool against them
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam e-mail or disable targeted servers by overwhelming them with Int...
Google starts to blur faces in Street View photos
BOSTON (AP) -- After privacy complaints, Google Inc. is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its Internet map program. Rolling it out will take se...
Samsung joins forces with LG, Harris on mobile TV
NEW YORK (AP) -- Samsung Electronics is combining efforts with fellow Korean electronics maker LG Electronics to develop a new standard for mobile TV broadcasts, the companies announced Wednesday....
VeriSign wins patent for Internet typo redirection
NEW YORK (AP) -- The company that runs many of the Internet's core directory systems has won a patent for its controversial service that helps Internet users find sites even when they mistype addre...
AP Top Health News At 12:08 p.m. EDT
9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday....
Study likely spells end for anti-bleeding drug
An anti-bleeding drug probably will stay off the market, experts say, after a rigorous study found patients getting the medication during heart surgery were much more likely to die than patients gi...
Government to unveil fitness test for adults
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you didn't get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award in school, the government is giving you another chance to prove you're in shape....
Global market expected to drive cancer drug growth
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The global market for cancer drugs will grow twice as fast as that for all other pharmaceuticals as the developing world spends more on health care, a new report says....
More Americans are taking prescription medications
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows....
Doctors told to check up on heart device patients
People with implanted heart devices need closer follow-up care, an international panel of heart specialists recommended Wednesday in the first guidelines for monitoring this rapidly growing group o...
Exercise may protect girls from future breast cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Get your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years - starting as young as age 12 - can help protect girls from breast cancer when they're grown. ...
Indonesia to provide bird flu data online
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia's health minister said Thursday she would start sharing all genetic information about her country's bird flu virus with a new global database, to monitor whethe...
Beijing reports first child virus death
BEIJING (AP) -- China's capital reported Wednesday its first death from the hand, foot and mouth disease virus that has sickened tens of thousands of children across the country and killed at least...
Disclosing drug makers payments to docs gets boost
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Legislation that would require prescription drug makers to disclose payments to doctors got a boost Tuesday when Eli Lilly and Co. broke ranks with the industry and endorsed the ...
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