Missing girl Madeleine McCann, who vanished while on a family vacation in Portugal five years ago, may be alive, U.K. police said Wednesday as they announced new efforts to solve the case.

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A man opened fire outside a Jewish school in southwest France on Monday, and the police said the gun used was linked to two recent attacks.

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GRAPEVINE, Texas — Seven people believed to be related had opened their Christmas gifts and started cleaning up the wrapping paper when they were shot to death in a Dallas-area apartment, police said Sunday. Authorities said they believe the shooter is among the dead. Four women and three men, aged 18 to 60, were found in an adjoining kitchen and living room area when police entered the apartment shortly after 11:30 a.m., said Grapevine Police Sgt. Robert Eberling. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — A woman was ambushed in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment building, doused with a liquid, set ablaze and left to die in a brutal attack that was recorded by two video cameras, police said. Doris Gillespie, 64, burned to death in the elevator Saturday, police said, after an unidentified man who was waiting for her when the elevator doors opened to the fifth floor of the apartment building in Prospect Heights. The man sprayed Gillespie with an accelerant and set her on fire with a Molotov cocktail, New York City police spokesman Paul Browne said. Read full article > >

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An elderly man was kidnapped in Wheaton on Sunday and possibly forced to get cash from ATMs in the third such incident in five days, and Montgomery County police said they think all involved the same assailant. The 77-year-old victim was seriously injured when he was cut and beaten in the kidnapping, which, like the others, began at the Westfield Wheaton shopping center, said Capt. Paul Starks, a county police spokesman. Read full article > >

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A southern California woman turned herself in to authorities as the person who pepper sprayed video-game shoppers in a Walmart during Black Friday's shopping frenzy, Los Angeles police said Saturday.

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A woman who allegedly fired pepper spray at other customers during a Black Friday sale has surrendered to authorities, Los Angeles police said Saturday. Police Sgt. Jose Valle said the woman who allegedly caused minor injuries to 20 shoppers at a Los Angeles-area Walmart turned herself in Friday night. Read full article > >

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BURLINGTON, Vt. — Police said preliminary investigations show a 35-year-old military veteran fatally shot himself in the head Thursday at an Occupy Wall Street encampment in Vermont’s largest city. Burlington police said the name of the Chittenden County resident is being withheld because his family has not been fully notified. Read full article > >

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Veteran shoots self at Vermont encampment, protesters say; hospital spokesman says he has died

Smoke from a bonfire and fireworks show caused a fiery weekend crash on a highway in southwestern England that killed seven people, police said Sunday.

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Smoky highway led to deadly UK pileup

Lebanon’s police said Syria was behind the abductions of Syrian dissidents in Lebanon, and on Tuesday a Syrian official was quoted saying troops had begun to sow landmines along their border with Lebanon.

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CHICAGO — Former Weezer bass player Mikey Welsh, who also found success in his second career as an artist, died in a Chicago hotel room, police said Sunday. Chicago spokeswoman Laura Kubiak said Welsh was supposed to check out of the Raffaello Hotel at 1 p.m. Saturday. When he didn’t, hotel staff went to his room, entered it and found him unconscious and not breathing, Kubiak said. Read full article > >

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A man and woman were found dead Saturday in the man’s Bethesda apartment in what Montgomery County police said appeared to be a homicide and suicide. Police said Martin Sean O’Toole, 38, and Hong Trang Tracy Vu, of New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring, who was believed to be between 35- and 38-years-old, were found in O’Toole’s Westbard Avenue apartment. Read full article > >

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German police said on Saturday that they had arrested a man suspected of shooting a security guard shortly before Pope Benedict XVI was about to celebrate Mass.

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KABUL — Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was appointed last year to head a commission trying to broker a peace deal with the Taliban, was killed inside his Kabul home Tuesday afternoon in a suicide bombing, Afghan officials said. The man who killed Rabbani was brought to his house under the pretext of peace talks, Gen. Abdul Zahir, the director of investigations for Kabul police said in a phone interview. The suicide bomber had hid explosives in his turban, Zahir said. Read full article > >

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A Springfield-area teenager has been arrested on charges that he abducted a 5-year-old girl from her bed and then sexually assaulted her in a wooded area near her home, Fairfax County police said Thursday. The 16-year-old was arraigned on four charges in Fairfax County juvenile court Thursday in connection with the Aug. 27 incident. Read full article > >

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