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Doctors in the city of Cajamarca said they removed 1.5 pounds of metal from Abanto's stomach, including nails, coins, and rusted copper wire and scrap metal.

Nov 11 - A huge power cut brings chaos to Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro and cities in at least four other Brazilian states.

Emirates airline, the biggest buyer of the "superjumbo" Airbus A380, said Wednesday it is considering increasing its order for the double-decker plane despite delays on existing orders.

PUTRAJAYA: Chinese President Hu Jintao said China and Malaysia have agreed to work to enhance their strategic and cooperative relationship.

Former top executives at Blackwater Worldwide say the U.S. security contractor sent about $1 million to its Iraq office with the intention of paying off officials in the country who were angry about the fatal shootings of 17 civilians by Blackwater employees, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 The Pentagon says a small shipment of H1N1 flu vaccine has arrived at the Guantanamo Bay military prison.

Veterans saluted and mourners laid flowers on hearses as hundreds paid tribute Tuesday to six soldiers killed in Afghanistan - including five shot to death by an Afghan police officer who turned against them.

The bombing in Charsadda city was the third attack in as many days in or close to Peshawar , the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.

French Foreign Legionnaires leave combat outpost near Kabul on Monday. President Obama A is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan , though not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there.

Navy ships of the two Koreas exchanged fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, South Korean military officers said.

A Brazilian woman whose short, pink dress caused a near riot at a private college and led to her expulsion will be allowed to return to class.

Nov. 9 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, joined thousands of others to walk across a former checkpoint in celebration of 20 years since the wall's collapse SOUNDBITE: GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL MUS, ONLOOKER FROM THE NETHERLANDS Georgina Cooper, Reuters No videos currently selected.

A pro-rape Facebook page, set up by a group of past and present elite Australian college students, has been taken down, but still ran from early August until late October, authorities say.

No fewer than 32 children have been killed over the past three years while working in Gaza arms smuggling tunnels, according to a new report released in the Palestinian Authority.

The report, prepared by an organization called the Palestinian National Society for Democracy and Law, was released on Saturday. It deals with the child abuse perpetrated on child laborers in the tunnels used to smuggle weapons, arms and other items from Egypt into Gaza.

With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification.

The U.S. military says two American pilots have died in a helicopter crash in Iraq.

Gordon Brown is to join other world leaders in Germany for the celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Three days of heavy rains in El Salvador touched off floods and slides that have killed at least 91 people, the government said Sunday.

Turkey said Sunday that Sudan's internationally indicted leader, President Omar al-Bashir, will not attend a conference of Muslim nations in Istanbul.

Britain's Defence Ministry says a British soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan.