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-- Afghanistan's new parliament was inaugurated in Kabul on Wednesday, four months after a nationwide election that critics said was marked by extensive fraud. The inauguration ended a political standoff between President Hamid Karzai and the parliament. Karzai announced the inauguration on...

PHOENIX (Reuters) – Tucson shooting rampage suspect Jared Loughner is due to appear in federal court on Monday on charges of attempting to assassinate Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the attempted murder of two of her staff members. A troubled 22-year-old college dropout, Loughner is...

-- Bob Diamond will stamp his authority on Barclays next month, when the incoming chief executive announces a radical overhaul of the way it pays its top bankers as part of a broader strategic review that could see the group shed staff and put increased pressure on underperforming businesses...

UNIONDALE, N.Y. – Nathan Gerbe snapped a tie early in the third period with a power-play goal, and the Buffalo Sabres salvaged a split of the home-and-home series by beating the New York Islanders 5-3 on Sunday. With drama and intrigue surrounding the Islanders one day after they claimed...

EDMONTON, Alberta – Cody Franson scored the lone shootout goal and Pekka Rinne turned aside all three Edmonton shooters in the Nashville Predators' 3-2 victory over the Oilers on Sunday night. Rinne got a huge break in overtime after losing his stick on a wild scramble on an Edmonton power...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New G20 police complaint A police oversight body is probing the comments of a police officer who was caught on YouTube telling a man who refused to be searched during the G20 summit, "This ain't Canada right now."...

-- Justice Antonin Scalia, a popular and entertaining speaker at various forums around the world, has one of the busiest schedules off the bench. But a closed-door address the conservative justice is scheduled to give Monday afternoon has attracted controversy, partly because of who is...

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has been charged with leaking classified government documents. -- The prime suspect in the WikiLeaks case, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, is being mistreated in detention, his lawyer asserts. Manning has been behind bars since July at Marine Corps Base Quantico in...

Patricia Krenwinkel was denied parole for the 13th time on Thursday for her role in a murder spree more than 40 years ago. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2011/01/21/krenwinkel.parole.denial.cnn -- Patricia Krenwinkel, a Charles Manson follower who went on a string of murders more than 40...