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LONDON (AP) — Prince William and his wife Kate have asked seven people to be godparents to their son, Prince George, who will be christened at a major royal family gathering Wednesday, palace officials said. Queen Elizabeth II and her…

(CNN) Australia's bushfires have such a long and destructive history there's almost no day of the week that hasn't been dubbed "black" or "ash" to mark a major conflagration. There was Black Thursday in Victoria in 1851, which destroyed…

(BBC) A Roma couple have been formally charged in Greece with abducting a young blonde girl, and they have been placed in detention pending a trial. The girl, named Maria, was found during a raid on a Roma camp in central Greece last week.…

(BBC) A student at a Nevada middle school shot dead a teacher hailed as a hero for trying to convince the boy to drop his gun, authorities have said. Michael Landsberry, a 45-year-old Afghanistan veteran, was "defending the students", a…

(CNN) Explosions targeting a passenger train carrying hundreds of passengers traveling after Eid holidays killed at least seven passengers and wounded 16 others in Pakistan's southern Balochistan province on Monday, authorities said. Three…

(BBC) An explosion that killed at least five people on a bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd was caused by a bomb, Russian officials say. They suspect a female suicide bomber - the partner of an Islamist militant - carried out…

(CNN) Marine biologists have a mystery to solve: Why have the carcasses of two rare oarfish washed up on Southern California shores within a week? Sightings of the huge deep-sea creatures -- dead or alive -- are unusual, because they…

(BBC) Two charred bodies pulled from Kenya's Westgate shopping centre on Thursday are "highly likely" to be two of the attackers, an MP has told the BBC. Ndung'u Gethenji, chairman of the committee investigating the attack, said AK47…

(BBC) Masked gunmen have shot dead a Libyan military police commander in the city of Benghazi, officials have said. Ahmed al-Barghathi, the head of the military police's investigative division, was shot several times as he left his house…

(BBC) At least 40 people were arrested after a protest at a shale gas development in the Canadian province of New Brunswick turned violent, say police. A shot was fired, petrol bombs were tossed and police cars torched at the blockade near…

(BBC) Porn publisher Larry Flynt has said he does not want the man who put him in a wheelchair to face the death penalty. Joseph Paul Franklin, who shot Flynt outside a Georgia court in 1978, is set for execution in Missouri in November.…

(BBC) Hundreds of thousands of US government employees are heading back to work after President Barack Obama signed a law ending a 16-day government shutdown and extending the US debt limit. The cross-party deal came hours before the US…

(BBC) The Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced that the UK will allow Chinese companies to take a stake in British nuclear power plants. The announcement also said that Chinese firms might eventually be allowed to take majority stakes…

(BBC) Chemical weapons inspectors in Syria have been unable to access one of the designated sites because of safety concerns, the world's chemical weapons watchdog has told the BBC. It is the first time they have been unable to complete a…

(BBC) Five children have been killed by an old mortar shell as they dug for scrap metal in South Sudan's capital, Juba. The five were looking for metal in an old army barracks, a military spokesman told the BBC. The BBC's James Copnall…