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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought Wednesday to head off Indian retaliation against Pakistan for the Mumbai terrorist attacks as the U.S. stepped up pressure on Islamabad to cooperate "transparently, urgently and fully" in tracking down the perpetrators.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper says an opposition plan to topple his government is a threat to Canada's democracy.

The U.S. government finally released the first part of a $400 million aid package Wednesday to support Mexico's police and soldiers in their fight against drug cartels.

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan on Thursday, the Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

Search teams slogged up a muddy, densely-wooded mountainside on Wednesday to locate a small plane with three people on board - including two American tourists - that crashed into a fog-shrouded forest east of Puerto Rico's capital.

A letter signed by 112 former presidents and prime ministers urged U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday to return to Myanmar and press its military junta to free all political prisoners.

Authorities in Yemen say the bodies of 24 Somalis have washed ashore following an accident involving a boat trying to smuggle migrants.

Police searching a mound of baggage abandoned amid the carnage of the attack on Mumbai's main train station found two bombs Wednesday - nearly a week after they were left there by gunmen - in a stunning new example of the botched security that has become a major issue in India since the three-day siege.

By this point in his long life, Lonesome George should be at least a grandfather.

British police say a trash collector can hold on to the mound of mutilated cash he found stuffed into a wastebasket in the English town of Lincoln earlier this year.