Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso announces his resignation as party head and congratulated the opposition Democratic Party of Japan on its apparent landslide win in parliamentary elections. If the DPJ, led by Yukio Hatoyama (above left), wins a majority it will end decades of Liberal Democratic Party rule.
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British Justice Minister Jack Straw confirmed Sunday that he had tried — and failed — to keep the Lockerbie bomber out of an agreement to send Libyan convicts back to the north African nation to serve their sentences there.
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At least 12 officers were killed Sunday in a suicide attack at the main police station in Mingora in Pakistan’s northwest, officials said.
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The Dalai Lama left for Taiwan on Sunday for a trip that will include praying for victims of Typhoon Morakot.
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U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. At the funeral in Boston on Saturday morning, U.S. President Barack Obama eulogized him as “a champion for those who had none.”
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CNN has obtained e-mails written by the woman who police say was kidnapped and held captive in California. The e-mails to clients of a printing company owned by kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido were sent by “Allissa,” who authorities say was really Jaycee Dugard, taken from her home 18 years ago.
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After injuring three people, a fierce wildfire put more at risk Sunday as it headed toward a small community, officials said.
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A day after the U.S. Coast Guard said it was suspending its weeklong search for three missing boaters, the men were found alive Saturday night.
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A British Royal Marine was killed Saturday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said in a statement.
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With winds of 115 mph, Hurricane Jimena has Mexico’s Baja California peninsula in its sights.
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