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MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia—Rescuers digging through several feet (a meter) of ash discovered nine more bodies on the slopes of Mount Merapi, whose explosive eruption a week ago buried whole villages. As confirmation of more deaths […] […]

PHOENIX—Arizona voters have approved a measure that will legalize medical marijuana use in the state for people with chronic or debilitating diseases. Final vote tallies showed Saturday that Proposition 203 won by a tiny margin […] […]

THE Mexican Army is hunting a 12-year-old assassin who is allegedly employed by a drug cartel to torture and murder its enemies. Known simply as El Ponchis – which means “The Cloak” – the young […] […]

Still holding fast to her dream of a truly democratic Burma, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was freed from house arrest Saturday, energetically telling a throng of jubilant supporters outside her gate […] […]

A SRI Lankan housemaid has accused her Kuwaiti employer of hammering 14 nails into her body, in the second such incident in the past few months. The woman, identified only as Lechchami, 38, underwent surgery […] […]

POLICE who found more than £1 million ($1.61 million) in cash in an attic have been told by magistrates they can keep the money. Officers made the discovery, which is the largest in the force’s […] […]

RANGOON, BURMA—Burma’s military government freed its archrival, democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on Saturday after her latest term of detention expired. Several thousand jubilant supporters streamed to her residence. A smiling Suu Kyi, wearing […] […]

At about the time his crime spree began, convicted serial killer Russell Williams was taking a cocktail of medications for chronic pain — including a drug that in some cases causes mind-altering side effects. One […] […]

A BRITISH holidaymaker who used his iPod to film a woman undressing, using the toilet then showering “just wanted to see her naked”. Tristan Francis Alain Maubec, 24, admitted to filming the naked 23-year-old Belgian […] […]

FOURTEEN suicide bombers attacked the main airport and a foreign military base at Jalalabad in Afghanistan’s east, according to Reuters. There was no word on casualties but smoke could be seen rising from the airport […] […]