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DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Long lines and blustery winter weather greeted Colorado marijuana shoppers testing the nation's first legal recreational ganja shops Wednesday. It was hard to tell from talking to the shoppers, however, that they…

KOLKATA (AFP) — An Indian teenager was gang-raped in two separate attacks and then died after being set on fire, sparking protests in the eastern city of Kolkata and the capital, police said Thursday. The 16-year-old was first assaulted on…

NEW YORK (AP) -- Rapper 50 Cent has lost a bid to end a Florida woman's lawsuit over a sex video posted online with him edited into it as a wig-wearing narrator. A New York judge rebuffed the rapper's request to dismiss Lastonia Leviston's…

PARIS (AP) -- Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher was in critical condition after undergoing brain surgery following a skiing accident in the French Alps on Sunday, doctors said. The Grenoble University Hospital Centre said…

HONG KONG (CNNMoney) -- China revealed the results of its national audit Monday, giving the world a rare look at its rapidly expanding local debt levels. China's National Audit Office said that local government obligations hit 17.9…

(CNN) -- Police shot and killed eight people who attacked a police station in Xinjiang, a restive region in northwestern China, authorities said Monday. Nine people armed with knives threw explosives at the building and set police cars on…

(BBC)-- At least 14 people have been killed in a suicide bombing on a trolleybus in the Russian city of Volgograd, investigators say. The blast comes a day after 17 people died in another suicide attack at the central station in the city.…

(BBC)--Thousands have their Christmas travel plans disrupted and 150,000 homes are without power as severe weather continues to batter the UK. Trains have been cancelled, roads flooded and there have been long delays and cancellations at…

(BBC)--Hundreds of thousands of households in Canada and the northern US are facing a Christmas without electricity after a severe ice storm. Nearly 400,000 customers in eastern Canada and 390,000 in the US are still without power, with…

(BBC)--Russian authorities have dropped criminal charges against the first of 30 people accused of taking part in a Greenpeace protest in the Arctic. The BBC has learned the man is Anthony Perrett from Newport in south Wales, who is…

(BBC)--The Obama administration has said it will provide an exemption for those whose insurance plans were cancelled under his embattled healthcare law. The "hardship exemption" will apply to roughly 500,000 people who lost their private…

(BBC)--Nigella Lawson has said she is "disappointed but unsurprised" that two sisters who worked as her personal assistants have been cleared of fraud. The trial of Francesca Grillo, 35, and sister Elisabetta, 41, heard they spent £685,000…

--Uganda's parliament has passed a bill to toughen the punishment for homosexual acts to include life imprisonment in some cases. The anti-homosexuality bill also makes it a crime punishable by a prison sentence not to report gay people.…

(New York) - A senior executive of a leading global hospitality chain is reaffirming his faith in the Caribbean as a region for sustained growth and development. Bill Clegg, regional vice president of franchise service and programs with…

Los Angeles (AP) — Investigators have found no evidence that the Porsche carrying ‘Fast & Furious’ actor Paul Walker had mechanical problems before it crashed. A law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation tells The…