RAFAH, Gaza Strip Jan 4, 2006 - Dozens of Palestinian gunmen firing in the air blocked access to the Gaza-Egypt border and took over four government buildings Wednesday, demanding the release of their leader.

The gunmen belong to the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent offshoot of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party. Fatah-affiliated vigilantes demanding government jobs or tr...

The Brownsville Police Department asked for the public's help Tuesday night to find a man accused of forging more than $40,000 in checks from the Brownsville Public Utilities Board.

Police have issued an arrest warrant for Miguel Leija Jr., 23, for forgery. Investigators said that Leija made fake checks by using an account number that PUB uses to pay its vendors.

"We have a brea...

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Like snowfall in the Middle East, skiing in Israel is a rare treat. Before the capture of the Golan Heights in the 1967 war with Syria, snow skiing here was an impossibility in a land better known for the arid depths of the Dead Sea.

Four years later came the creation of Israel's only ski resort,...

WINNIPEG -- In an extraordinary show of forgiveness, the parents of two young Sudanese friends who were killed on the weekend -- one by his buddy, the other by police -- are planning a joint funeral.

When police were called to a fight at an apartment Friday night, they burst in and found Zunga Bashir, 24, on top of James David, 28, plunging a knife into him.

A police officer shot an...

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TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. - Rescuers methodically made their way toward the spot where 13 coal miners were believed to be trapped below ground Tuesday morning as other crews prepared to start drilling a hole to try and listen for signs of life.

A coal mine explosion that may have been sparked by lightning trapped the miners 260 feet below the surface of the Sago Mine at about 6:40 a.m. Monday....

A DRIVE to persuade more people to register as organ donors has been launched by Health Minister Andy Kerr.

More than 400 people in the UK die every year while waiting for an organ transplant because there are not enough donors on the National Health Service register.

Mr Kerr said: "Many people carry donor cards which is good. However, being on the NHS organ donor register is a goo...

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Sir Martin Sorrell is impatient for the Olympic Games in Beijing in the summer of 2008 to start. "I'm planning to go - if I'm invited," says the most powerful Briton in global advertising.

The chances are quite high that Sir Martin, the chief executive of WPP (the world's second-largest marketing s...

At least two deaths were blamed on the storm _ two men killed by falling trees, one in Vacaville on Saturday and another in Los Altos Hills on Sunday, authorities said.

Up to 3 inches of rain in parts of Sonoma County on Sunday prolonged flooding along the Russian River near Guerneville. The water crested at 41 feet _ about 9 feet above flood stage _ and began receding again overnight. Bu...