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Maximum Security owner weighs options after disqualification

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Maximum Security co-owner Gary West criticized race stewards' disqualification of his horse's Kentucky Derby victory as "egregious" and said he was pondering his next step, including...

May 05, 2019

Ebola outbreak deaths top 1,000 in Congo amid clinic attacks

KINSHASA, Congo - More than 1,000 people have died from Ebola in eastern Congo since August, the country's health minister said Friday as hostility toward health workers continues to hamper efforts to...

May 05, 2019

Strong cyclone lashes India, forces 1.2 million from homes

KOLKATA, India - Cyclone Fani tore through India's eastern coast on Friday as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and winds gusting up to 205 kilometres (127 miles) per hour and affecting weath...

May 05, 2019

Cyprus police chief fired over serial killer case

NICOSIA, Cyprus - The president of Cyprus fired the small island nation's police chief Friday, saying botched missing person investigations might have allowed a self-confessed serial killer to claim m...

May 05, 2019

1 year later, Hawaii lava evacuees grapple with huge losses

PAHOA, Hawaii - A year after a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island rained lava and gases in one of its largest and most destructive eruptions in recorded history, people who lost their homes and farms in t...

May 05, 2019

Kelly Clarkson had appendix removed after hosting awards

LOS ANGELES - Kelly Clarkson had her appendix removed soon after hosting the Billboard Music Awards. The 37-year-old tweeted she "may or may not have broken down in tears after the show from pain." Sh...

May 05, 2019

Cyprus serial killer suspect accused of raping other woman

NICOSIA, Cyprus - A Cyprus police investigator says a man who has confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls on the island is being investigated on additional charges of raping a foreign woman...

May 05, 2019

Let's make a Brexit deal, UK PM May tells Labour opposition

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May says her Conservative government and the opposition Labour Party have a duty to strike a compromise Brexit agreement to end months of political deadlock ove...

May 05, 2019

Israeli man killed by rocket amid massive firing from Gaza

JERUSALEM - An early morning rocket from the Gaza Strip killed an Israeli man Sunday outside a home in the coastal city of Ashkelon amid a massive wave of attacks, marking the first Israeli casualty f...

May 05, 2019

SKorea says NKorea tested 'new tactical guided weapon.

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea's military says North Korea fired a "new tactical guided weapon" during live-fire drills on Saturday, but did not confirm whether it was a ballistic missile. Th...

May 05, 2019