Up to 90 Shia pilgrims have been killed and more than 140 wounded in a double suicide bombing in the central Iraqi town of Hilla, police said. It was the deadliest in a number of attacks against pilgrims heading to the city of Karbala for a religious event.

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Six soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded near their vehicles during a combat operation Monday in Salahuddin province, the military said in a statement. In another incident the same day, three more soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Diyala province, another statement said.

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Six Sunni men who received death threats for meeting with local Shiites were killed Saturday in execution-style slayings, police said. The attack near Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of the Iraqi capital, were apparently connected to rising sectarian violence

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The Walt Disney Co. is suing the city of Anaheim over a controversial residential project that would add low-cost housing in the city's resort district. Disney has long opposed the proposal to build 1,500 condominiums and apartments, including 225 units for lower income residents, near its amusement parks.

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A woman admitted Monday that she coached her two children to fake retardation starting when they were 4 and 8 years old so she could collect Social Security benefits on their behalf.

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U.S. authorities in Phoenix on Friday began testing a controversial new X-ray machine to screen air passengers for weapons, a process that critics likened to a "virtual strip search."

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Some are already calling it war, a brutal Muslim separatist insurgency in southern Thailand that has taken as many as 2,000 lives in three years with almost daily bombings, drive-by shootings, arson and beheadings.

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