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Three gold medals, one silver medal and 38 total points. Not a bad haul for Dayton's A.J. Hedgecock.

French President Francois Hollande, left, talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the North Atlantic Council meeting in Chicago during the NATO 2012 Summit Sunday, May 20, 2012.

Thousands of demonstrators upset with the war in Afghanistan, climate change and the erosion of union rights marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday, taking their discontent on a wide range of issues to world leaders... A handful of protesters briefly interrupted a Maine college graduation speech by British Prime Minister Tony Blair calling for ... (more)

A police officer wrestles with the hand of an NATO protestor who refused to let go of her bicycle Saturday in Chicago.

BENGHAZI, Libya - Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims.

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Hundreds of opposition protesters rallied Sunday in Bangladesh's capital to demand that authorities release 33 of their leaders and find a missing opposition official.

A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook northern Italy early Sunday, killing at least three people and toppling some buildings, emergency services and news reports said.

A Myanmar negotiator says ethnic Shan rebels have agreed in a second round of talks to end fighting with army troops in the country's east, the latest reported deal between the new reformist government and various ethnic separatist movements.Negotiator Aung Min, who is also the country's railway minister, said he discussed enforcing a December ... (more)

Chen Guangcheng had been hurriedly taken from a hospital hours earlier and put on a plane for the United States after Chinese authorities suddenly told him to pack and prepare to leave.

Thousands of college-age demonstrators arrive at the Angel of Independence monument at the end of a march to protest a possible return of the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, Saturday, May 19, 2012.

PRINCE, Haiti -- Two Americans are among 50 people who were detained during a march in Haiti that drew hundreds of protesters pressing for the return of the country's disbanded army, a police spokesman said Saturday.

Critics of mandatory-minimum sentencing laws are upset over a 20-year prison term imposed on a Florida woman for firing a warning shot to try to scare off her threatening husband.

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint Saturday in a volatile area of eastern Afghanistan, killing eight people, police said.

Jurors in the John Edwards' campaign corruption trial are taking a break for the weekend and their requests for evidence and office supplies may be a sign that they are in for detailed discussions when they reconvene on... Jurors in the John Edwards' campaign corruption trial are taking a break for the weekend and their requests for evidence and ... (more)

The NATO meeting in Chicago this weekend is a chance for alliance leaders to proclaim solidarity and promise success.

The army says it has detained eight suspected members of the Gulf cartel and seized drugs, guns and hand grenades during investigations into the May 13 discovery of 49 dismembered bodies on a highway in northern Mexico.

Quebec's provincial government passed an emergency law Friday that sets restrictions on demonstrations and shuts some universities as the government seeks to end three months of demonstrations against tuition hikes.

The German justice system will entertain a Costa Rican request to extradite controversial Sea Shepherd conservationist and "Whale Wars" star Paul Watson, but he can post bail while the matter is considered, a Frankfurt court ruled Friday.

Masked gunmen kidnapped a police reporter while he waited at a car wash in the northern state of Sonora, authorities said Friday.

Joplin is getting another big boost from the Middle East as the Missouri city rebuilds and prepares for the anniversary of a devastating tornado that killed 161 people.