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Maoist rebels ambush a patrol team in central India, setting off a land mine and killing at least 15 paramilitary policemen.

Oscar-winning director James Cameron resurfaced after plunging to the deepest known point in the world’s oceans in his one-man submersible, making him the first man to travel alone to the near 7-mile depth of the Marianas Trench.

China and the US have agreed to co-ordinate their response to any “potential provocation” if North Korea goes ahead with a planned rocket launch.

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade says he has kept his promise by conceding defeat just hours after results showed his opponent Macky Sall winning, in one of few established democracies in western Africa.

Coroners report that pop legend Houston died from accidental drowning in her hotel bathtub after taking cocaine.

Prime Minister Francois Fillon says police had no grounds on which to arrest gunman Mohammed Merah before he carried out three attacks in which seven people died.

EU foreign ministers have imposed a travel ban and asset freeze on the UK-born wife of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and other family members. Asma al-Assad is among 12 people added to the sanctions list, which already includes her husband.

A Marine sergeant who started an openly anti-Obama Facebook group is facing possible dismissal from the Corps.

Mohammed Merah, the man suspected of killing seven people in southern France has died during police assault, after 32 hour-long standoff in Toulouse.

Mutinous soldiers are looting the presidential palace in Bamako, hours after ousting Mali’s president Amadou Toumani Toure and imposing a nationwide curfew.

Former Turin mayoral candidate Alberto Musy was shot multiple times by a man wearing a black motorcycle helmet who was waiting for him in the stairwell of his apartment building.

French police are negotiating with a man suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in southwestern France.

With a decisive win in the Illinois presidential primary, Romney sets his sights on Louisiana where he hopes to impress in a southern state.

A spate of car bombings has rocked Iraq, killing at least 41 people and wounding 190, on the ninth anniversary of the U.S. invasion and days before the nation hosts a meeting of Arab leaders.

One of the biggest manhunts in recent French history is under way after four people were shot dead at a Jewish school in Toulouse.

At least 14 children are feared dead after a school bus carrying them fell into a canal in Khammam district of Andra Pradesh in India.

Southwest France has seen its third deadly shooting in the past week, as a killer rides up on a scooter at a Jewish school in Toulouse, killing three children and a teacher.

Olympic organisers have unveiled a street-by-street route map of the 12 875km torch relay for the 2012 London Games.

At least five people were killed after a salvo of mortars targeting Somalia’s presidential palace missed and landed on a nearby refugee camp.

Rev. Rowan Williams, the spiritual head of the world’s Anglicans, announced he will step down at the end of the year.

North Korea will launch a satellite mounted on a rocket to mark the 100th birthday of its late former President Kim Il-sung, state media reported.

The U.S. soldier accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan villagers last weekend saw his friend’s leg blown off the day before the rampage, his lawyer said.

A Swiss couple held captive by the Pakistani Taliban for over eight months have been recovered safely, claiming they escaped their captors in the lawless tribal belt.

Egypt’s prosecutor general has referred 75 people to criminal court in connection with soccer riots last month that left over 70 people dead.

Leadership succession in China plunges into high drama as the favorite to join country’s ruling panel is toppled amid defection scandal.

A bus crash in Switzerland has killed 28 Belgian and Dutch tourists, 22 of them children, as they returned from a ski trip.

Rick Santorum marches forward to the next GOP primary battle with wins in Alabama and Mississippi, throwing cold water on rival Mitt Romney’s prediction that his campaign was reaching a “desperate end.”

A bomb attack has killed three people including the suicide bomber inside a government compound in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.

A court in Guatemala has sentenced a former soldier to 6,060 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 201 people during the civil war.

Taliban militants opened fire and killed one Afghan soldier who was part of a government delegation visiting one of the two villages where a U.S. soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians.

A ferry packed with about 200 people capsized in a river in southern Bangladesh, killing at least 31 people and leaving dozens more missing.

Authorities have completed the initial selection of crew members for China’s first manned space docking mission, and the roster includes female astronauts.

Activists believe as many as 47 people have been killed in an attack by pro-government militia in the embattled Syrian city of Homs.

Afghan Taliban fighters say they will seek revenge after 16 people were left dead when an American soldier went on a house-to-house shooting rampage in two villages.

President Giorgio Napolitano demanded an explanation for Britain’s failure to inform Italy before launching a botched raid in which an Italian and British hostage were killed in Nigeria

Syrian opposition activists angrily reject calls by Kofi Annan, the UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, for dialogue with the government.

Consumer prices rose 3.2% from a year ago, a steep slowdown from a 4.5% inflation rate in January.