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Iran, Syria among topics for G-8, NATO

President Barack Obama is using weekend gatherings of world leaders — dominated by discussion of European economic woes and Afghanistan — to solidify world resolve against development...

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Iran, Syria among topics for G-8, NATO

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Driver who was hero in '76 Calif. bus kidnap dies

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Iran, Syria among top for G-8 and NATO

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Wake for Mary Kennedy held amid apparent rift

Amid apparent family rift, wake held for Mary Kennedy, estranged wife of RFK Jr.

Feds say Colorado wildfire started on camp stove

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Georgia woman learns toll of flesh-eating bacteria

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Ultra-Orthodox plan huge NYC meeting on Net risks

Ultra-Orthodox Jews rent Mets stadium for huge meeting on Internet dangers

France's Hollande sticking to early Afghan pullout

In first meeting with Obama, French president sticks to early Afghan troop pullout timetable

Bush to return to White House for portrait event

Former President George W. Bush to return to White House for unveiling of official portrait

Neighbors: Highway shooting suspect a regular guy

Neighbors say Miss. highway shooting suspect was a regular guy, police say cold-blooded killer

Chicago protesters break away from nurses' rally

Chicago protesters break away from nurses' rally in prelude to bigger weekend demonstrations

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On May 18, 1926,

evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, Calif. (McPherson reappeared more than a month later, saying she'd escaped after being kidnapped and held for ransom, an account that was greeted with skepticism in some quarters.)

In 1012,

Theophylact, son of Gregory, Count of Tusculum, became Pope Benedict VIII, succeeding Pope Sergius IV.

In 1642,

the Canadian city of Montreal was founded by French colonists.
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