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BASRA, Iraq – In a major show of force, British (search) soldiers used tanks to break down the walls of the central jail in this southern city late Monday and freed two Britons, allegedly undercover commandos, who had been arrested on charges of shooting two Iraqi policemen. About 150 Iraqi …

While testicular cancer cure rates rank high, new research shows that successfully treated patients aren’t necessarily out of the woods. In the largest and longest follow-up study of men treated for testicular cancer ever published, survivors were found to have an increased risk for developing malignant tumors in other parts …

NEW ORLEANS – In a day of reckoning across battered New Orleans, the owners of a nursing home were charged in the deaths of dozens of patients killed by Hurricane Katrina‘s (search) floodwaters, the death toll in Louisiana jumped to 423, and the mayor warned that the city is broke, …

DETROIT – Ford Motor Co. (F) said Thursday it plans to pare down the number of suppliers it uses and give them larger, longer-term contracts in an effort to cut costs. Ford said it will use the new system for vehicles built in 2008 and beyond. The Dearborn-based automaker eventually …

President Bush on Thursday sought to assure victims of Hurricane Katrina (search) that his administration was working around the clock to meet their needs, and asked Americans across the country to pray for the effort. “I’ve declared Friday, Sept. 16, a national day of prayer and remembrance,” Bush said in …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A man who lived with his wife and 15 children inside Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (search) — and engaged in a widely publicized feud with the park service — has been charged with numerous counts of sexual assault and incest. Alaska State Troopers searched Monday for Robert …

PARIS – French police on Monday detained nine people suspected of ties to a fundamentalist Algerian militant group possibly planning to attack France, officials said. In Italy, police searched some 20 apartments and offices around the city of Milan that may be linked to 11 Algerians suspected of sending money …

BEIJING – North Korea (search) said Thursday it won’t give up its nuclear weapons without receiving a reactor for generating power, stalling six-nation talks on Pyongyang’s atomic programs. “We’re in a bit of a standoff at this point,” said the chief U.S. delegate to the talks, Assistant Secretary of State …

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – A federal judge lifted a gag order Friday that shielded the identity of librarians who received an FBI demand for records about library patrons under the Patriot Act (search). U.S. District Court Judge Janet Hall ruled in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union (search), which argued …

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas’ highest criminal appeals court has refused to consider the case of a woman convicted of killing her cheating husband by driving over him. Clara Harris is serving 20 years for the slaying of her husband, David Harris, by hitting him with her car outside a suburban …