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A statement claiming to be by al-Qaeda in Iraq has rejected as a fake a letter allegedly written by Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s second-in-command.

A woman in Pennsylvania attacked her neighbor and tried to cut open her abdomen to steal her unborn child.

The Department of Justice said today that it had reached a $300 million antitrust settlement with Samsung Electronics, the South Korean technology conglomerate, and that the company agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to fix prices on memory chips …

British playwright Harold Pinter, whose juxtaposition of the brutal and the banal dubbed an adjective that bears his name, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday.

The Swedish Academy said Pinter was an author “who in his plays …

A strain of bird flu that can be deadly for humans has spread from Asia to the fringes of Europe and countries should prepare for a potential pandemic, Europe’s health chief said on Thursday.

Scores of Islamic militants launched simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings in this city in Russia’s turbulent Caucasus region Thursday, sparking battles that killed at least 49 people.

Scientists have found more bones that belong to what may be a second human species, Homo Floresiensis.