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A 19 year old in Aliso Viejo, California went on a shooting spree, killing a man and his daughter, then killing himself.

A ceremony is being held in the German city of Dresden to consecrate the Church of our Lady which was destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II.

Rice University professor Richard Smalley, who shared a 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of “buckyballs,” has died of cancer at the age of 62, the university said Friday.

Software giant and music industry friend Microsoft was dragged squeaking before a court and accused of music piracy.

The United States and Japan agreed Saturday to step up military cooperation and substantially reduce the number of Marines on the strategically important southern island of Okinawa.

Iran said on Saturday it stood by its U.N. commitments not to use violence against another country, responding to international criticism over remarks by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowing to destroy Israel.

The French government yesterday took a huge financial and political gamble by launching the part-privatisation of state-owned EDF, Europe’s second-largest power group, in the face of investor uncertainty and union fury.

At least 10 people were feared killed in a powerful explosion that rocked central New Delhi. Minutes later, two more explosions shook the city, officials said.

The car featured in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” was stolen from the studio it was being stored at.

The New Orleans Police Department fired 45 officers and 6 civilian employees, after accusations of abandoning their posts during Katrina chaos.