MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin says he intends to return to the presidency because only he can guide Russia between the twin dangers of stagnation on the one hand and instability on the other. Read full article > >

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Putin says he’s Russia’s indispensable man

A couple said to have swapped the identity of their dead baby to her twin sister in a bid to cover injuries they inflicted are jailed for five years.

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Twin swap pair jailed for cruelty

As the twin towers came under attack, employees of an energy firm in a sister tower in Tulsa were taking messages from doomed traders at the World Trade Center.

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An Oklahoma Office Tower’s Unbreakable Link to 9/11

President Obama will visit the site of the Twin Towers Thursday for the first time as president, just days after a U.S. military operation killed al Qaeda leader-and 9/11 mastermind-Osama bin Laden. Obama will visit with families of the victims of the…

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Obama to Visit Ground Zero Thursday

A rapist who was snared through his twin brother’s DNA is jailed for six years and four months.

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‘DNA rapist’ monitored for life

The inquest into the Cumbrian shootings hears about the moment Derrick Bird’s first victim, his twin brother David, was found.

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Gunman left twin ‘dead on floor’

Congressional budget experts said Wednesday that Social Security will be running a permanent deficit until about 2037, when the fund will run out of money. The nation’s retirement and disability program suffers from the twin problems of a weak economy…

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Social Security to Run Dry by 2037

Judith Racine and her twin daughters, who lost everything in the quake in January, have settled into a 10-by-15-foot room in Brooklyn.

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The Neediest Cases: After a Haitian Earthquake, a New Life in Brooklyn

Visual guide to the development at the Twin Towers site in New York

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Ground Zero plans