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Thai protesters pour own blood at government HQ (AP)

A supporter of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra holds a blood bottle before spilling at the front gate of the Government House Tuesday, March 16, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai protesters poured blood they had donated outside the front gate of the government headquarters Tuesday in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

AP - Thai protesters seeking a change of government turned to shock tactics Tuesday, pouring gallons of their own blood into a glistening puddle at the gate of the prime minister's office.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:33:33 GMT

Clashes erupt in Jerusalem; US envoy cancels trip (AP)

Undercover Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian demonstrator during clashes in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Dozens of masked Palestinians hurled rocks at police and set tires ablaze across the holy city's volatile eastern sector, where thousands of officers, including reinforcements brought in from other locations, were in place for a fifth straight day. (AP Photo / Dan Balilty)

AP - Hundreds of Palestinians in east Jerusalem set tires and garbage bins ablaze on Tuesday and hurled rocks at Israeli riot police, who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. The heaviest clashes in months broke out as an American envoy abruptly canceled a visit, deepening a U.S.-Israeli diplomatic feud.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:08:40 GMT

Iraqi PM's bloc accuses election official of fraud (AP)

Electoral workers sort through ballots cast at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

AP - The coalition led by Iraq's prime minister has accused an election official of manipulating vote counts from the country's parliamentary elections and called for a recount, a candidate from the bloc said Tuesday.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:22 GMT

Officials: British boy kidnapped in Pakistan found (AP)
AP - Kidnappers released a 5-year-old British boy unharmed Tuesday almost two weeks after abducting him from his grandparents' house in central Pakistan, British and Pakistani officials said.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:36:39 GMT

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Woods says he will return at Masters (AP)
Tiger Woods said Tuesday he will return to golf next month at the Masters, ending a four-month hiatus brought on by a sex scandal that shattered his image as the gold standard in sports. "The Masters is where I won my first major and I view this tournament with great respect," Woods said in a statement.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:07:27 PDT

Ark-Pine Bluff, Winthrop set for play-in (AP)
Boulder. Denver. El Paso. Akron. Tempe. Ann Arbor. Atlanta. Stillwater. Columbia. Eugene. And Manhattan -- as in Kansas, not New York. Arkansas-Pine Bluff went on a brutal barnstorming tour to open the season. The Golden Lions visited 10 states in two months, seeing everything there is to see from the Great Lakes to the West Coast and the Deep South.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:44:19 PDT

Report: Phils float Howard-Pujols deal (AP)
Albert Pujols for Ryan Howard? Let's just say the MVP sluggers don't plan to pack their bags anytime soon. Talk of a megatrade kept baseball buzzing Monday following an ESPN report the Philadelphia Phillies were thinking about asking the St. Louis Cardinals if they'd like to swap star first basemen.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:06:05 PDT

NCAA selection chairman defends field (AP)
The coaches handled the snubs with class. The pundits weren't nearly as kind. And not surprisingly, the man responsible for what is widely regarded as one of the worst NCAA tournament at-large fields ever defended the decisions and predicted another fantastic version of March Madness. "When I reflect back, I feel good about the work we did and the field we put out there," Dan Guerrero,...

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:40:09 PDT

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Honda to recall 410,000 vehicles for brake problem (AP)

Honda has recalled some 412,000 vehicles in the United States because customers complained their brakes felt

AP - Honda Motor Co. says it is recalling about 410,000 Odyssey minivans and Element small trucks because of problems with the brake pedals.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:45:32 GMT

Housing construction drops 5.9 pct in February (AP)

Construction workers build one of a number of new single family homes in a subdivision outside San Diego as new home construction returns to San Marcos, California March 8, 2010. The Obama administration has more work to do to help struggling U.S. homeowners, despite signs of a stabilizing housing market, a senior Treasury official said on Monday. REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS POLITICS CONSTRUCTION)

AP - Housing construction fell in February as winter blizzards held down activity in the Northeast and South. The decline highlighted the challenges facing builders as they struggle to emerge from the worst housing slump in decades.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:22:56 GMT

Stocks rise ahead of Federal Reserve rate decision (AP)

An information board posts the latest prices and graphs above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange earlier this month. Doctors have found a relation between stock market fluctuations and heart attack frequency, a preliminary study by North Carolina's Duke University Medical Center said Saturday.(AFP/Stan Honda)

AP - Stocks climbed Tuesday while investors awaited results from the Federal Reserve's meeting on interest rates.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:27:42 GMT

GE executive sees dividend increase in 2011 (AP)
AP - General Electric Co. says it will increase its dividend in 2011, two years after the industrial and commercial conglomerate reduced it to save money as its financial arm struggled in the recession.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:48:31 GMT

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Army drops bayonets, busts abs in training revamp (AP)

Basic training solders, private Joel Yuhas, back, and private David Glisson, front, battle each other, during pugil stick training, which is intended to hone warrior skills, at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)

AP - New soldiers are grunting through the kind of stretches and twists found in "ab blaster" classes at suburban gyms as the Army revamps its basic training regimen for the first time in three decades.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:36:45 GMT

GOP assails Dems on approach to health bill (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves a Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 15, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

AP - Democrats defended plans to push massive health care legislation through the House without a direct vote and Republicans assailed the strategy Tuesday, as both parties fenced ferociously over the health overhaul end game.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:59:55 GMT

Magnitude-4.4 earthquake shakes Southern Calif. (AP)

A quake reading on a seismograph. Los Angeles and surrounding areas were rattled early Tuesday by a 4.4 magnitude earthquake, US seismologists said.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)

AP - An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert.

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:25:10 GMT

Scientists go 'gaga' to find creatures beneath 600 feet of ice (AP)

This video frame grab image provided by NASA, taken in Dec. 2009, shows a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is related to a shrimp, where a NASA team lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet and a curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then even parked itself on the cable attached to the camera. In a surprising discovery that shakes the idea of where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet. (AP Photo/NASA)

AP - In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:05:53 GMT