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Inspections of Bangladesh garment factories under a new safety initiative have found cracked support beams, substandard building materials and exposed electrical cables chewed by rats.

Spain's King Juan Carlos and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy are joining families of victims of the Madrid train bombings for a 10th anniversary Mass in memory of Europe's worst Islamic terror attack.

Shoulder to shoulder, cheek to cheek, young women and men sit next to each other while a thick film of cigarette smoke fills the dimly lit cafe in central Tehran. Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" blares from the speakers.

A federal judge in San Francisco stopped the destruction Monday of millions of telephone records collected by the National Security Agency more than five years ago.

The world's most famous sled dog race is approaching the finish, with a winner expected as soon as early Tuesday. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race consists of a grueling 1,000-mile trek through unpredictable Alaska wilderness to the old gold rush town of Nome on the state's western coast.

Gov. Steve Bullock has declared a flood emergency for the state of Montana after recent snowfall and warm temperatures triggered widespread flooding.

NATO says it is dispatching surveillance aircraft to fly over Poland and Romania to monitor the crisis unfolding in neighboring Ukraine.

They say an elephant never forgets. Now it turns out they may be discerning listeners, too.

The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange that recently collapsed in Japan has filed for U. S. bankruptcy protection to shield itself from a lawsuit seeking to repay thousands of people whose digital currency is now missing.

American writer George Saunders has won the 40,000 pound ($67,000) Folio Prize for literature with his humorous and disturbing short-story collection "Tenth of December."

A federal spokesman says about 150 detainees at Washington state's Northwest Detention Center refused to eat Monday morning as a hunger strike entered its fourth day.

An elderly woman who suffers from Alzheimer's disease lived with her husband's body for a month after he died not realizing what happened, authorities said Monday.

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An extensive search has revealed no sign of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. What authorities say is known as of Monday evening:

Germany has dismissed a claim by NSA leaker Edward Snowden that it bowed to U. S. demands to water down legal protection for German citizens.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Pennsylvania school district that wants to prevent students from wearing "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets to promote breast cancer awareness among young people.