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ROME - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for ...

ROME - A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it ...

LONDON - A retired British couple snatched from their yacht by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday they fear they could be ...

Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping ...

WILMINGTON, Del. - The Catholic Diocese of Wilmington is obligated to pay retirement benefits to six priests who are confirmed pedophiles, church officials argued ...

JELAWAR, Afghanistan - There's a breed of Canadian troops who are in a league of their own - adrenaline junkies who feed off the ...

The Pacific resort island of Saipan was reeling Friday from one of the most violent attacks in its history, when a gunman killed five ...

WASHINGTON - With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democrats pushed toward a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill Friday, and ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan expressed fear Friday that a large increase in foreign troops in Afghanistan could push militants across the border into its ...

MOSCOW - A Russian ship reached open water off Antarctica after struggling through a huge mass of sea ice for days, a Russian shipping ...

LONDON - Catherine Ashton: International woman of mystery.

Ashton is Europe's new foreign policy chief, the international representative of half a billion people, with a ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate ethics committee admonished a U.S. senator on Friday for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements about the circumstances surrounding his ...

PERUGIA, Italy - An American student accused of fatally stabbing her British roommate in Italy had a growing hatred for the victim and killed ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Representatives of six world powers urged Iran on Friday to accept a U.N. plan aimed at delaying its ability to build ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Human rights advocate Nelson Mandela and his wife have won a global award for helping to promote children's rights over the ...