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16 children, 1 teacher dead in Pakistan bus fire

Police say that a teacher was among the 17 burned to death in eastern Pakistan when a minibus taking children to school suddenly caught fire. Police earlier said that all 17 who died in the Saturday morning blaze in Gujrat, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) northwest of Islamabad, were children ...

Actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to Ohio schools

Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools. The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/13Qe0uR ) reports that Perry was drawn to Finland Middle School on Friday after seeing a ...

In this May 23, 2013 photo, security officers walk away from the entrance of the Barrick Gold Corp's Pascua-Lama facilities, in northern Chile. Chile's environmental regulator blocked Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8.5 billion Pascua-Lama project on Friday, May 24, 2013, and imposed its maximum fine on the world's largest gold miner, citing "very serious" violations of its environmental permit as well as a failure by the company to accurately describe what it had done wrong. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Chile's Indians take on world's largest gold miner

The Diaguita Indians live in the foothills of the Andes, just downstream from the world's highest gold mine, where for as long as anyone can remember they've drunk straight from the glacier-fed river that irrigates their orchards and vineyards with its clear water. Then thousands of mine workers and their ...

In this image from amateur video obtained by a group which calls itself Ugarit News, shows rebel fighters celebrating after purportedly capturing an army base in Nairab, northwestern Syria, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The video is consistent with independent AP reporting. Rebel fighters captured an army base late Wednesday, a rare victory after a series of battlefield setbacks, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition group said. The group said scores of pro-regime troops and more than a dozen rebels were killed in the battle for the base, near the northwestern town of Nairab. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Syria regime unleashes artillery barrage on Qusair

Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad unleashed on Saturday their heaviest artillery and rocket barrage yet in a week-long battle to dislodge rebels from a strategic western town, activists said. Pro-Assad troops, including fighters from the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, have been trying to push rebels out of Qusair. They ...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakea hands with Palestinian restaurant employees as he stops by for a snack after his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Fadi Arouri, Pool)

Kerry makes sub-Saharan Africa visit

Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan. Kerry, attending the African ...

Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81

When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he'd found "no discernible change in the racial climate of the city." When it came to employment, housing or education, blacks had made no real gains. ...

Kuchar leads Colonial without finishing 2nd round

Matt Kuchar got off to a tremendous start in his second round at the Colonial. There was the eagle putt that stopped just short on his first hole and the approach at No. 2 that actually went in before ricocheting out of the cup. There were four birdies in his ...

Pittsburgh Penguins' Brenden Morrow (10) beats Ottawa Senators' Jared Cowen (2) to the puck behind Senators goalie Craig Anderson (41) for a goal in the first period of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals in their NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs series on Friday, May 24, 2013, in Pittsburgh.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Penguins oust Sens in five, reach Eastern finals

Boston or the New York Rangers? To be honest, Ottawa's Daniel Alfredsson doesn't think it matters who the Pittsburgh Penguins face in the Eastern Conference finals. At the moment, Alfredsson believes the Penguins are a cut above. "I think they would be the favorite to play either of those two ...

Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) argues a call by official Tom Washington during the second half of Game 2 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoff series Indian Pacers, Friday, May 24, 2013, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Pacers steal Game 2 away from Heat in Miami, 97-93

David West was more than a little disappointed when the Indiana Pacers failed to make a defensive play at the end to win Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals. So in Game 2, he made those plays himself. Twice, in fact. And he victimized the game's best player to ...

Obama's drone rules leave unanswered questions

President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed. National security experts say it's imperative to leave some room in ...

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