A passenger of the US Airways plane scheduled to fly from Paris to Charlotte, N.C., told the crew that she had a surgically implanted device, the authorities said.

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Plane Diverted After Passenger Claims an Implanted Device

Prisoners at a jail in north-eastern Brazil release more than 100 people taken hostage, as the authorities say they will investigate their complaints.

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Hostages released at Brazil jail

A series of powerful thunderstorms spawned dozens of reported tornadoes across parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa on Saturday, killing five people, the authorities said.

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5 Killed as Violent Storms Cut Across Central Plains

The police officer was wounded while pursuing a man at a city housing project, the authorities said.

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Police Officer Is Shot in the Face At a Brooklyn Housing Project

A fight between prisoners at a jail in Altamira in northern Mexico leaves 31 inmates dead, the authorities say.

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Fight in Mexican prison kills 31

A woman and her baby are killed in Colombia’s southern Putumayo province in a bomb attack the authorities blame on left-wing rebels.

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Two die in Colombia bomb attack

The boss of a criminal gang said to control much of Colombia’s drugs trade hands himself to the authorities along with more than 280 members.

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Drug boss surrenders in Colombia

The arrest of Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, followed grand jury testimony by two additional accusers, the authorities said.

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Sandusky Arrested on New Sexual Abuse Charges

A man was fatally shot on a crowded Q111 bus by a man who had just killed another man two miles away and told the police he “had a beef to settle,” the authorities said.

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City Room: Two Men Shot Dead, One on a Bus in Queens

At least seven people are expected to turn themselves in to the authorities next week on allegations of cheating on college admissions exams as part of a scandal on Long Island.

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NIZHNY TAGIL, Russia — In far-off Moscow, the authorities are fond of suggesting that only a spoiled elite in the capital carp about eroding freedoms, controlled elections and a gloom they compare to the later days of the Soviet Union. “There are people who think that the atmosphere in the country is suffocating,” Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Prime Minister Vladi­mir Putin, told television interviewers last week, “while others want three percentage points off their taxes to get their farm going.” Read full article > >

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Russian political life far from Putin and Kremlin

The single-engine helicopter, with five people onboard, went down moments after it took off from a helipad at East 34th Street, the authorities said.

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Helicopter Crashes in East River

Officer Michael V. Pena was accused of grabbing a woman in Upper Manhattan and showing her his gun before attacking her, the authorities said.

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New York Police Officer Charged With Rape While Off Duty

A program requiring Arab and Muslim men to register with the authorities is over, but Mohammed G. Azam is among those still caught in its net, immigration experts say.

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A Post-9/11 Registration Effort Ends, but Not Its Effects

The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken from at John F. Kennedy International Airport, accused of attacking a hotel maid, the authorities said.

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I.M.F. Chief, Apprehended at Airport, Is Accused of Sexual Attack