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  • kangaroo in australia airport
  • A bizarre sight caused a security breach and a partial lockdown of the Melbourne airport.
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  • Two girls were arrested in a Florida bullying case after one of them admitted online over the weekend that she harassed a 12-year-old girl who killed herself last month, a sheriff said Tuesday.
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  • abu anas al-libi
  • A Libyan charged in the deadly 1998 al-Qaida bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa has pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in New York.
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  • dry ice explosion
  • A dry ice explosion occurred late Monday at Los Angeles International Airport, but there were no reports of any injuries or evacuations, authorities said.
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  • The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the central Philippine island of Bohol has risen to 85.
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  • bling bishop
  • The head of Germany's bishops warned that the Catholic Church must act quickly to deal with a bishop under fire for spending.
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  • capitol suspect
  • A wake was held Monday evening at Grace Funeral Chapels.
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  • syria
  • Gunmen in Syria released three Red Cross staffers and a Red Crescent volunteer who had been kidnapped in rebel-held territory.
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  • child drowns on carnival cruise ship
  • Carnival Cruise Lines says a 6-year-old boy has drowned in one of its pools while at sea while in the Caribbean.
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  • buckingham palace
  • A man with a knife was arrested after he tried to dart through a gate at Buckingham Palace in London on Monday, police said.
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  • madeleine mccann suspect
  • Police in London have released computer-generated images of a new suspect in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal six years ago.
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  • British police said Sunday the timeline and version of events surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has "significantly changed," allowing them to build their most detailed reconstruction of the case yet.
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  • social security
  • For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees can expect historically small increases in their benefits come January.
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  • A terminally ill Ohio man who arrived at his daughter's wedding by ambulance gave her away, from a hospital gurney.
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  • peru bus crash
  • A makeshift bus carrying 51 Quechua Indians back from a party in southeastern Peru plunged off a cliff into a river, killing everyone on board, including 14 children.
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  • john kerry
  • The U.S. and Afghan President Hamid Karzai reached an agreement in principle Saturday on the major elements of a deal that would allow American troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014.
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  • kids missing from ranch
  • Four of the nine teenagers reported missing from a rural ranch for troubled youth are back with their parents, New Mexico police said Saturday.
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  • Xerox Corp. says that access to food stamp systems has been restored in New Jersey and 16 other states that were affected by a temporary outage.
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  • Officials ordered tens of thousands of coastal villagers to flee their homes Friday as a massive cyclone - so large it filled nearly the entire Bay of Bengal - gathered strength and headed toward India's eastern seaboard.
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  • delaware sorority bus crash
  • Several sorority sisters from the University of Delaware were injured when a bus taking about 40 people to a party during homecoming week overturned in a crash with a tractor trailer, authorities said.
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  • china typhoon
  • A tropical storm barreling toward the northern Philippines on Friday intensified into a typhoon with destructive winds and flooding rains threatening farmlands and populated areas, including the capital Manila.
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  • castro sentencing
  • A state patrol investigation may shed more light on the possibility that Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro died after an ill-fated attempt to choke himself for a sexual thrill.
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  • nobel prize
  • The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for working to eliminate the scourge that has haunted generations from World War I to the battlefields of Syria.
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  • suspect shoots man on san francisco train
  • Prosecutors in San Francisco say passengers on a commuter train were so distracted by their mobile devices that none of them noticed a man shoot a college student.
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  • egypt turmoil
  • While dissatisfied with Egypt's progress toward reinstating a democratic government, the U.S. is holding out the possibility of restoring hundreds of millions of dollars in aid if its Mideast ally moves toward free and fair elections.
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  • libyan prime minister ali zidan
  • Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan was freed from captivity just hours after gunmen abducted him Thursday at dawn from the hotel where he resides in the capital, Tripoli, according to the state news agency.
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  • roller coaster attack
  • The 12-person train stopped near the top of the first hill of the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit around 7 p.m. Wednesday.
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  • SFPD investigate body found at SF General Hospital
  • A body discovered in a San Francisco hospital stairwell was that of a female patient at the facility who disappeared more than two weeks ago, hospital officials said Wednesday.
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  • breaking news
  • A man with an assault-type rifle fired 15 to 20 shots at the federal courthouse in Wheeling. W.Va.
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  • capitol suspect
  • Police found no weapon or apparent evidence of motive while searching the car of a woman who was fatally shot by police after trying to ram her vehicle through a White House barrier, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.
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  • Still, militants threaten to kill her should she dare return home to Pakistan, and the principal at her old school says that as Malala's fame has grown, so has fear in her classrooms.
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  • The Obama administration's detention of a high-profile terrorist suspect aboard a Navy vessel drew sharp opposition Tuesday among Republicans in Congress, who said Abu Anas al-Libi should be sent to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay for indefinite interrogation.
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  • John Constantino, 64, of Mount Laurel, N.J., had burns so severe that he had to be identified by DNA and dental records.
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  • south dakota snow
  • A record-breaking storm that dumped 4 feet of snow in parts of western South Dakota left ranchers dealing with heavy losses, in some cases perhaps up to half their herds, as they assess how many of their cattle died during the unseasonably early blizzard.
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  • The U.N. secretary-general recommended Monday that approximately 100 people from the United Nations and the world's chemical weapons watchdog agency be part of an unprecedented and dangerous joint mission to eliminate Syria's poison gas stockpile.
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  • U.S. interrogators headed to an American warship in the Mediterranean to question a suspected Libyan al-Qaida operative.
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  • boston marathon bombings
  • Dozens of amputees showed up at the Harvard athletic fields on a rainy Sunday morning along with their family and physical therapists and other volunteers to learn how to run - or run better - with prosthetic legs.
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  • california wildfire
  • Firefighters gained ground on a wildfire that burned nearly 4 square miles of dry brush and forced people to evacuate part of Camp Pendleton, while a blaze generating heavy smoke drove some residents from homes in an Orange County canyon community.
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  • Elizabeth Smart
  • Smart writes that she was so terrified of the street preacher who kidnapped her that when she was rescued by police in a Salt Lake City suburb in March 2003, she only reluctantly identified herself.
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  • boy sneaks on plane
  • A 9-year-old Minneapolis boy was able to get through security and on a plane at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport without a ticket.
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  • The U.S.-led international military coalition says four of its service members have been killed in Afghanistan and all were Americans killed by an improvised explosive device.
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  • A man who set himself on fire on the National Mall in the nation's capital has died of his injuries, District of Columbia police said Saturday.
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  • capitol suspect
  • A woman who was shot to death outside the Capitol had been under the delusion the president was communicating with her.
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  • snow
  • This dangerous storm system generated a tornado in Nebraska and has dumped more than 33 inches of snow in South Dakota.
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  • twin pandas
  • They are giving the public a chance to have a say by voting online, through the ABC "Good Morning America" website.
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  • boston marathon bombings
  • Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked a judge Wednesday to lift restrictions placed on him in prison, arguing that the conditions are overly harsh, have left him nearly totally isolated and are impairing their ability to defend him.
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