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    A pilot was killed when the vintage jet he was navigating at an air airshow near Madrid crashed and exploded into a dramatic fireball.

  • Belorussian dies after beaver severs major artery

    A Belorussian man was on a fishing trip with some friends Thursday when a beaver ravaged him to death.

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    Embassy Row: America's interests

    The U.S. ambassador in London lectured British voters this week on what he says is their responsibility to keep the United Kingdom within the European Union, despite rising popular support for pulling out of the 27-nation federation.

  • **FILE** South Africa's Oscar Pistorius embraces Grenada's Kirani James after the men's 400-meter semifinal during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

    Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp argued before the shooting, neighbors report

    A forensic team has converged on Olympian "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius's home, uncovering further details that counter initial theories that he shot and killed his celebrity model girlfriend by accident, under the impression she was an intruder.

  • Sunni hardline preacher Sheikh Ahmad Assir speaks during a protest against an anti-Islam movie, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Anger over insults to Islam's Prophet Muhammad isn't enough to bring Lebanon's divided Sunni and Shiite Muslims together. The two sects, which have been locked in sometimes violent political competition, held separate protests Friday. Sunni protesters accused Shiite Hezbollah of using the demonstrators to distract from the fighting in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Ahmad Omar)

    Hezbollah arms shipment destroyed in Israeli jet strike

    Israel isn’t confirming, but Middle East news outlets report Israeli jets have struck a target near the Syria-Lebanon border in an effort to stop the transport of missiles into Hezbollah hands.

  • Smoke billows from the scene following a helicopter crash in central London, after it hit a crane on St. George's Tower building in the Vauxhall area of central London, Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013. Police say two people were killed when a helicopter crashed during rush hour in central London after apparently hitting a construction crane on top of a building, obscured behind smoke. (AP Photo/Max James Tolhurst, PA)

    2 dead, 13 hurt after helicopter crashes in London

    A helicopter crashed into a crane and fell on a crowded street in central London during rush hour on Wednesday, sending flames and black plumes of smoke into the air. The pilot and one person on the ground were killed and 13 others injured, officials said.

  • ** FILE ** Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher waves to members of the media on Monday, June 29, 2009, upon returning to her home in London from the hospital after suffering a broken arm. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

    Reports: Ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher leaves hospital

    British media are reporting that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has left the hospital after an operation to remove a bladder growth.

  • ** FILE ** In this Dec. 17, 1986, file photo, Jimmy Savile, right, poses for photographers with a wax work model at Madame Tussauds museum in London. (AP Photo/John Redman, File)

    Report blames chaos, not cover-up, for BBC scandal

    Institutional chaos and confusion — but not a cover-up — were to blame for the BBC's disastrous handling of pedophilia allegations involving one of its best-known children's television personalities, an internal review found Wednesday.

  • Nurse who died after Kate hoax call was from India

    A nurse found dead days after she took a crank call about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was originally from India, British police said Saturday, as details began to trickle out about the woman whose death has sparked anger at the Australian radio DJs behind the hoax.

  • Reports: UK rocker arrested as part of Savile case

    Police investigating child sex abuse allegations against the late BBC television host Jimmy Savile arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter on Sunday, British media reported, raising further questions about whether Savile was at the center of a broader pedophile ring.

  • Reports: UK police arrest Gary Glitter

    Police investigating child sex abuse allegations against the late BBC television host Jimmy Savile arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter on Sunday, British media reported, raising further questions about whether Savile was at the center of a broader pedophile ring.

  • Reports: UK rocker arrested as part of Savile case

    Police investigating child sex abuse allegations against the late BBC television host Jimmy Savile arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter on Sunday, British media reported, raising further questions about whether Savile was at the center of a broader pedophile ring.

  • ** FILE ** British performer Gary Glitter gives a press conference in London in 2000. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

    Gary Glitter: U.K. police arrest ex-glam rock star in abuse scandal, reports say

    The sex abuse scandal surrounding the late BBC children's television host Jimmy Savile widened on Sunday as police arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said.

  • **FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad (Associated Press/SANA)

    Syrian troops attack Homs, kill dozens in shelling

    Syrian government forces pounded parts of central Homs province Sunday in a renewed push to regain control of rebel-held territories, and activists said at least 38 people were killed by shelling there over the past 24 hours.

  • Economy Briefs: Report says laws for credit reporting fails consumers

    An Ohio newspaper reports that Americans are virtually powerless to correct damaging mistakes in their credit reports owing to a failure of federal law to regulate credit-reporting agencies.

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