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- updated Underwear bomber sentenced to life in prison
- A Nigerian man who tried to blow up an international flight near Detroit on behalf of al-Qaida has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
- updated UN backs resolution condemning Syrian regime video
- The UN General Assembly has backed a non-binding Arab League-sponsored resolution calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and end his regime's violent crackdown on dissidents.
- Honduras prison fire is world's deadliest video
- The prisoners who died in the Honduran prison fire had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to an internal Honduran government report obtained by The Associated Press.
- point of view Man who killed sons kept from being buried near them
- A Washington man who killed his two sons will be buried in the same cemetery as them following a huge public firestorm, his brother-in-law said Thursday.
- Amnesty accuses Libyan militias of unbridled torture video
- Armed militia groups in Libya have turned on one another and now rule most of the country, torturing their opponents with impunity, Amnesty International says.
- new Iran unlikely to attack 1st, U.S. Senate told
- Iran isn't likely to start or provoke a conflict with its neighbours or the U.S., an intelligence official tells a U.S. Senate armed services committee hearing.
- analysis Brian Stewart: The danger in shoving Greece too far
- How much pounding can one country take before it explodes and takes others down with it, Brian Stewart asks.
- Charges dropped against Ottawa man in Bahrain
- An appeal court in Bahrain has acquitted Naser al-Raas of all charges related to demonstrations during the Arab Spring protests.
- Nortel collapse linked to Chinese hackers audio
- A former systems security adviser to Nortel Networks says he has no doubt that extensive cyberattacks on the technology company contributed to its downfall.
- Amanda Knox gets book deal
- Amanda Knox, the U.S. exchange student who was acquitted of murdering her roommate last year after four years in jail for the crime, has a book deal.
- GM posts record $7.6B profit in 2011
- General Motors earned the highest profit in its history last year, earning $7.6 billion US in 2011, despite heavy losses in its European division.
- Whitney Houston's funeral to be held Saturday video
- Pop star Whitney Houston's funeral service will be held Saturday in the New Jersey church where she first showcased her singing talents as a child.
- New Canada-China energy deals may be good for U.S. too
- U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson said in Montreal on Thursday that it's good for the United States when Canada, its largest trading partner, increases its trade in new markets like China.
- Apple to stop apps from stealing smartphone contacts
- Apple says it is making policy changes to stop iPhone apps from copying contacts in users' address books without permission.
- new Italian ship kills 2 fishermen mistaken for pirates
- An Italian cargo ship fired at an Indian fishing boat that it mistook for a pirate vessel, killing two fishermen, India's navy said Thursday.