A house explosion in a northern suburb of Milwaukee on Saturday injured six people, including a firefighter and a police officer, fire officials said.

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House explosion injuries 6 in Wisconsin

Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a nuclear submarine early Thursday at a U.S. Navy shipyard in Maine after battling it for hours, according to a statement released by the shipyard.

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Fire on nuclear sub extinguished

Like many other 18-year-olds, Nina Siren is on the point of graduating from high school. Unlike her peers, she has spent more than half her short life fighting to prevent the destruction of her home, culture and indigenous community in the interests of oil exploration.

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Amnesty: Failed leadership goes global

Thousands of Somalis flee fighting as African Union troops advance on Afgoye, a stronghold near the capital of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.

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Kevin Pietersen praises England’s bowling attack after a West Indies fightback gave his side an unexpected fright in the first Test at Lord’s.

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Pietersen praises England bowlers

As Carl Froch returns to fight in Nottingham, his partner and glamour model Rachael Cordingley discusses the man behind the boxer

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The model who charmed ‘The Cobra’

MPs are urging the UK to give more money to the Global Fund which fights AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.

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David Haye turned down a fight with Vitali Klitschko because he fears him, the WBC heavyweight champion’s manager Bernd Boente claims.

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Nato leaders endorse plans to hand combat command in Afghanistan to local forces by mid-2013 and withdraw fighting troops by 2014.

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Nato endorses Afghan timetable

It's no bloody, foot-stomping battle to the death, but a legal fight befitting a mighty dinosaur is playing out on two continents as Mongolia's president tries to block the sale of a nearly complete skeleton of a 24-foot-long Tyrannosaurus that roamed Central Asia 80 million years ago.

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Mongolia tries to stop rare fossil sale

KOLKATA, India — She spent her life fighting communists but is the biggest obstacle to economic liberalization in India today. She is the leader of a small regional party but wields more power than the prime minister. Read full article > >

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Mamata Banerjee personifies populist force in Indian politics

A cheap drug, which is already prescribed for arthritis, could fight amoebic dysentery, according to researchers in the US.

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Cheap dysentery drug ‘promising’

West Indies mount a stirring fightback to raise their hopes of pulling off an unlikely victory over England in the first Test at Lord’s.

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West Indies raise victory hopes

Somali government soldiers are among five people killed in two bomb attacks in the capital Mogadishu blamed on al-Shabab Islamist fighters.

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Bombs kill soldiers in Mogadishu

President Obama welcomed new French President Francois Hollande to the White House on Friday, an initial meeting that comes as world leaders feel a renewed sense of urgency to contain the European debt crisis. Read full article > >

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Obama welcomes France’s Hollande to White House, outlines plan to fight African famine