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Police in El Salvador on Tuesday arrested two naked men who were found covered in dust digging a tunnel into a bank vault in the Salvadoran capital.

The main building of the Library of Congress was evacuated on Wednesday morning after a “suspicious odor” was detected and two people felt faint, Capitol police said.

A 25-year-old woman has died from the H5N1 bird flu virus in a Jakarta hospital, Indonesian health officials said Wednesday.

The battle for 3G supremacy continues. From the GSM side, Nortel and Qualcomm recently announced that they have successfully completed HSDPA calls reaching an astounding data transfer rate of 3.6 Mbps.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement today on President Bush’s failed policies in Iraq.

Erik B. Blowers, supervisory special agent and Chief Division Counsel for the Charlotte Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has pleaded guilty to knowingly making and submitting to the FBI a materially false statement, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn A. Fine announced today.

The recent mass shooting at a Tacoma, Wash., shopping mall dramatically illustrates how the unregulated sale of firearms through classified ads in newspapers poses a potential hazard to a newspaper’s readers and the general public.

A mother has been charged with trying to poison her adult daughter and her daughter’s family after allegedly pouring bleach into their macaroni and cheese.

Attorney General Kelly Ayotte will try to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 2003 state law requiring New Hampshire girls under 18 to tell a parent 48 hours before having an abortion.

A woman is suing the Pizza Hut in Lehighton, Pa., because the hot poppers she ordered as an appetizer were hot, and popped when she bit into them.