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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Protesters seized internal security headquarters and a state TV channel after fatal clashes with government forces in Kyrgyzstan Wednesday, saying they now controlled the Central Asian nation that hosts a U.S. base key to the Afghan war.

Rosalind Cartwright has defended a host of violent characters — burglars, cat killers and even murderers — some of whom still keep in touch each year with Christmas cards.

This Spring, Barack Obama will push toward his goal of a nuclear-free world. But the stiffest resistance may be at home.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax Day is a dreaded deadline for millions, but for nearly half of U.S. households it’s simply somebody else’s problem.

PARIS (Reuters) - Youths burned 1,137 cars across France overnight as New Year’s Eve celebrations once again turned violent, the French Interior Ministry said on Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday announced it would launch a campaign next week to strengthen security screening procedures at a host of international airports.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A Somali man armed with an axe and suspected of links with al Qaeda broke into the home of a Danish cartoonist whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused global Muslim outrage and was shot and wounded by police.

(CNN) — Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab wouldn’t have to go to an al Qaeda training camp in Yemen to learn how to hate.

A federal judge on Thursday threw out charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing 14 people in a 2007 shooting in downtown Baghdad.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee running back Chris Johnson sounded like he was shooting for the moon back in the spring with such goals as leading the NFL in rushing and being voted MVP.

The activity of Konstantin Korotkov, deputy director of the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Physical Culture and world-renowned authority on Kirlian photography, was recently highlighted by Life.ru. Korotkov is the developer of the gas-discharge visualization (GDV) technique in Kirlian photography.

(CNN) — The White House responded forcefully Wednesday to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of President Obama’s response to the botched terror attack on Christmas Day.

KABUL (AP) - At least eight Americans died Wednesday in a suicide bombing at a military base in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. Conflicting reports were reaching the Pentagon on whether the victims were civilian or military in the bombing at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost province near the border with Pakistan.

The Yemeni government has vowed to wipe out the group claiming responsibility for a plot to bring down an airliner carrying 289 people bound for the US city of Detroit on Christmas.

CNN: In the video — shot Sunday, according to the posting on the Web site YouTube — green-and-white police trucks rush into crowds of protesters in the capital, Tehran. Demonstrators scatter, but one truck drives into a crowd trapped in a narrow street with a wall on one side and parked cars on the other.