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By BERT WILKINSON 2010-09-07T00:35:23Z GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) -- Former Surinamese dictator Desi Bouterse shrugged off questions about his past during his first overseas trip as elected president, saying Monday that he will not interfere in his ongoing murder trial and dismissing a 1999 drug conviction as "almost a joke."...

By LYLE MORAN 2010-09-06T21:16:36Z BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's retort was an Internet sensation....

By RONALD BLUM 2010-09-06T20:54:23Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Brian Matusz won his fourth straight start and Brian Roberts hit a go-ahead single in the seventh inning off struggling A.J. Burnett, leading the Baltimore Orioles to a rare 4-3 win over the New York Yankees on Monday....

By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID 2010-09-06T20:18:24Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- They say money can't buy happiness. They're wrong....

By JUAN MCCARTNEY 2010-09-06T16:29:43Z NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the actor decided he no longer wanted to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son on the island chain....

By JEAN H. LEE 2010-09-06T16:14:28Z SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Huge posters plastered across the North Korean capital hailed the nation's biggest political convention in 30 years as a historic event as the world watched Monday for signs that the country's next leader was making his public debut....

By GEORGE JAHN 2010-09-06T16:05:13Z VIENNA (AP) -- In an unusually blunt warning, the U.N. atomic agency said Monday that its monitoring of Iran's nuclear activities is being hampered because Tehran objects to giving some agency inspectors access to its program....

By 2010-09-06T14:33:36Z LONDON (AP) -- Rare color footage of the bomb damage inflicted on London during World War II has surfaced on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Blitz....

By 2010-09-06T14:30:34Z PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Hundreds of naked and partially nude cyclists have pedaled their way through Philadelphia to promote bicycling awareness and cleaner air....

By 2010-09-06T14:27:52Z LONDON (AP) -- Police in southwestern England say a former member of the Electric Light Orchestra was killed in a freak collision with a huge hay bale that rolled down a steep hill....

By SLOBODAN LEKIC 2010-09-06T14:03:28Z BRUSSELS (AP) -- NATO may deploy 2,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan to join the 140,000-strong international force already there, an official said Monday....

By ROB GRIFFITH 2010-09-06T10:04:44Z CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand's prime minister warned Monday that the country's economic recovery will be hurt by the weekend's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings and wrecked roads and rail lines in the city of Christchurch....

By CRISTIAN SALAZAR 2010-09-06T09:32:39Z NEW YORK (AP) -- The Black Widow of eating contests gobbled up nearly 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes, devouring the national championship record in Buffalo on Sunday....

By CARLO PIOVANO 2010-09-06T09:32:29Z LONDON (AP) -- World stock markets advanced modestly Monday as investors rode momentum from Friday, when an upbeat U.S. jobs report eased fears that the global economy could slip back into recession....

By RICK CALLAHAN 2010-09-05T23:47:06Z INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, inspire camp songs and often end up in jars in children's bedrooms may be flickering out in the nation's backyards as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats....

By DAN STRUMPF 2010-09-05T23:41:52Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Craiglist's "adult services" section has been shut down in the U.S., but prostitution on the Internet is alive and well - even, quite possibly, on Craigslist....

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO 2010-09-05T23:13:08Z NEW YORK (AP) -- How do you get penny pinchers to spend these days? Pitch products that promise to save them money....

By PATRICE CITERA 2010-09-05T23:07:38Z KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- Two boats capsized over the weekend in separate incidents on Congo's vast rivers, leaving 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead, and both vessels were heavily loaded and operating with few safety measures, officials said Sunday....

By PETER PRENGAMAN 2010-09-05T20:32:36Z SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) -- While a fire warms their campsite, the icy feeling between Cristina Nunez Macias and her mother-in-law is as palpable as the cold Atacama desert....

By COLLEEN LONG 2010-09-05T20:00:53Z NEW YORK (AP) -- A flight attendant who captured America's attention when he told off a plane full of passengers and then slid down an emergency chute resigned from his job last week and wasn't fired, his lawyer said Sunday....