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- Killing near London barracks probed as 'terror' act video
- WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime — shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took them into custody.
- 2 infants confirmed among dead of Oklahoma tornado video
- Rescue workers raced to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of 10 children.
- Man shot dead during FBI interview for Boston bombing probe
- The FBI says a man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot after he initiated a violent confrontation during an interview with officers in Orlando, Fla.
- U.S. Republicans aim to take hold of Keystone XL decision
- The American political brawl over the approval of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline shifted into overdrive on Wednesday as Republicans in the House of Representatives made yet another attempt to take the decision out of U.S. President Barack Obama's hands.
- 4 Americans killed in counterterrorism drone strikes
- The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama.
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- Costa Concordia captain to stand trial for manslaughter
- An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship to stand trial for manslaughter in the vessel's shipwreck off the coast of Tuscany, which killed 32 people.
- audio Germans gear up for autobahn speed limit debate audio
- Some opposition politicians in Germany's Reichstag are pushing the idea of putting speed limits on Germany's autobahns — the highways famed for having no speed limit at all.
- Deadlocked Arias jury must keep deliberating, says judge
- Jurors in the Jodi Arias murder trial told the judge Wednesday they are unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether the convicted murderer should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time boyfriend, prompting the judge to send them back to the deliberation room to work through their differences.
- How the weather info that storm chasers use can keep you safe
- Radar imagery and a stream of weather information are readily available to the public when severe weather bears down.
- Iran's Ahmadinejad denounces election decision video
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that a decision by election overseers to disqualify his top aide from next month's presidential race is an act of "oppression" and that he will take the case to the country's supreme leader.
- Venezuela tries to end toilet paper shortage
- Oil-rich Venezuela is moving to end shortages of basic personal hygiene products by authorizing millions of dollars to buy toilet paper, toothpaste, soap, sanitary napkins and disposable diapers.
- Suicide on Paris cathedral altar stirs France's far right
- The public suicide in Paris of Dominique Venner, a 78-year-old right-wing French historian and essayist, has stirred a strong political reaction in the country.
- German software firm SAP plans to hire hundreds with autism
- German software firm SAP says it wants to hire hundreds of people with autism to work as programmers and testers for its products.
- Anthony Weiner campaigns for New York mayoralty
- Former U.S. congressman Anthony Weiner, whose political life imploded two years ago in a series of raunchy tweets, has announced in a YouTube video that he's running for mayor of New York.
- Ai Weiwei uses music to mock state power in China
- Emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei eat, sleep, pace, shower and even sit on the toilet in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking state power.
- Iran expanding nuclear program, says UN atomic agency
- The UN atomic agency has detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclear weapons, saying Tehran has upgraded its uranium enrichment facilities and advanced in building a plutonium-producing reactor.
- Search for Ontario man missing in Australia enters 3rd day
- The search for a 25-year-old Canadian man missing in Australia's Snowy Mountains for more than a week goes into a third day today.
- Canadian killed in Iraq violence, Baird says
- Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says a Canadian is among the dead in a spate of sectarian violence in Iraq that has killed more than 270 people in just the past week.