A right to information activist is shot dead by an unidentified gunman in the northern Indian city of Bhopal, police say.

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India information activist killed

A light bulb in the northern California town of Livermore has been glowing continuously for more than a century.

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VIDEO: 110-year-old light bulb still shining

More than 100 people were killed Monday in and around the northern Syrian city of Jisr Al-Shugur in the third consecutive day of violence there, according to reports from the government and opposition groups.

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Syrian TV: 120 security forces killed

At least 16 people are killed and dozens injured in a bomb attack, apparently aimed at worshippers at a mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit.

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Deadly bomb attack at Iraq mosque

A doctor is beaten to death by inmates of a prison where he was examining a patient in the northern Indian state of Bihar, police say.

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Inmates kill India prison doctor

Bombings in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk kill at least 27 and injure dozens, with many police among the casualties, officials say.

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Deadly bombs strike northern Iraq

Officials in Guatemala have found 27 bodies, the majority of which were decapitated, at a farm in the northern region of Peten, Col. Rony Urizar, an army spokesman, said Sunday.

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27 found dead at Guatamalan farm

A protest by thousands of farmers against alleged forced acquisition of land spreads to parts of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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India farmer land protest spreads

Rescuers worked through the night Sunday to reach a miner caught in a cave-in more than a mile underground. The roof of a tunnel at the northern Idaho silver mine in Mullan collapsed while two brothers were working. One escaped, but the other did not….

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Rescuers Work to Find Idaho Miner

Japan’s coast is under a tsunami warning after an earthquake hit the northern part of the country on Thursday.

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7.1 magnitude earthquake shakes Japan

Gunmen dressed in police uniforms and suicide vests stormed the provincial council office in the northern city of Tikrit in a brazen attack that left at least 12 people dead, officials said.

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Gunmen Seize Hostages at Council Office in Saddam Hussein’s Hometown

A NATO helicopter gunship inadvertently killed two civilians while attacking suspected insurgents in the northern province of Khost, NATO announced Thursday.

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NATO helicopter airstrike inadvertently kills 2 civilians in Afghanistan

The scale of the devastation is becoming clear in Japan 72 hours after the massive earthquake and tsunami struck the northern part of the country.

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Tokyo – An earthquake of 8.9. magnitude struck off the coast of Japan on Friday, the strongest ever recorded in the country. The quake churned up a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland in the northern part of the country and set off warnings as far away the west coast of the United States and South America. Fragmentary early reports of the toll indicate that hundreds of people have been killed. Japanese police officials told the Associated Press that 200 to 300 bodies were found in Sendai, a port city in read more

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Huge Quake and Tsunami Hit Japan

Forget about a diamond in the rough, these are diamonds in a drainpipe: Paris police found gems believed to be stolen two years ago from Harry Winston in a drainpipe in the northern suburbs of the city, near the home of robbery’s suspected mastermind….

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Jewels Worth $20M Found in Drainpipe