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One of the top three leaders of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel, considered a founder of the country's massive methamphetamine trade, has died in a gunfight with soldiers.

A Frenchwoman who admitted suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter.

Oil that spilled from an Enbridge pipeline into a southern Michigan waterway is not expected to reach Lake Michigan, U.S. officials say.

A London, Ont., woman is recovering in a Wyoming hospital after a near-fatal bear attack late Wednesday night in a U.S. national forest.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the leak of thousands of secret U.S. defence documents relating to the war in Afghanistan, saying it has put the lives of Afghan informants working with NATO and U.S. forces at risk.

A procedure intended to ease the job of plugging BP's blown-out Gulf of Mexico well for good could start as early as the weekend, the U.S. government's point man for the spill response says.

A new report by 300 scientists has flagged the past decade as the hottest on record and compiled 10 'unmistakable' indicators the world is getting warmer. But the scientists mostly stayed away from discussions about the cause.

A former Brazilian crime show host and state legislator accused of orchestrating murders to boost his TV ratings has died in hospital.

Arizona has filed an appeal to lift a judge's ruling that put on hold most of the state's controversial new immigration law, which went into effect Thursday.

U.S. President Barack Obama mounted a spirited defence of his first 20 months in office Thursday on the popular daytime talk show The View.

Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week.

Goldman Sachs workers are likely wondering WTF is appropriate anymore after the New York investment bank informed employees that profanity is no longer acceptable in electronic messages.

A former guard at the Belzec death camp who is accused of participating in the killings of more than 430,000 Jews during the Second World War has been charged in youth court.

Pakistan is mourning for the 152 victims of the country's worst plane crash, as emergency crews continue a grim search for bodies amid thick mud, rain and slippery hillsides.

A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill - described as the teeth that saved the world - sold at auction Thursday for $24,550.

A hacker has discovered a way to force ATMs to disgorge their cash by hijacking the computers inside them.

A man listed as the oldest living male in Tokyo in fact died some 30 years ago, city officials said after his body was found mummified in his bed.

The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell for the third time in four weeks last week, dropping by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 457,000.

The U.S. military plans to investigate the fiery crash of one of its own planes in Alaska that killed all four crewmen on board.

The body of a second U.S. sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan has been recovered.