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LONDON – Opening day at Heathrow Airport’s grand new Terminal 5 turned sour as severe baggage handling delays led to numerous flight cancellations, stranding many irate passengers. Day 2 brought more of the same. Early cancellations Friday at the gleaming new terminal included British Airways flights to Edinburgh, Glasgow and …

WASHINGTON – The House on Friday approved a Democratic bill that would set rules for the government’s eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails inside the United States. The bill, approved as lawmakers departed for a two-week break, faces a veto threat from President Bush. The margin of House approval was …

BERLIN – German investigators who have hunted Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim for decades said Thursday that new information indicating the former concentration camp doctor died in Egypt in 1992 appears credible and that they will attempt to locate his corpse to rule out any doubt. The Baden-Wuerttemberg state police …

A student who died on a nightclub dancefloor in front of friends suffered a heart condition that may have been triggered by caffeine in the Red Bull she had been drinking, a British court was told Monday. Chloe Leach, 21, collapsed at a nightclub in East Yorks, England after drinking …

Experts on Friday urged governments on Friday to diversify their stockpiles of drugs and called for more new medicines to fight what could be the world’s next flu pandemic caused by the H5N1 bird flu virus. Many advanced countries stock up on oseltamivir and zanamivir, two varieties of the same …

SAVANNAH, Georgia – A pregnant tourist who was abducted and killed while jogging in Puerto Rico was a fearless explorer of the islands she visited during work trips with her yacht-captain fiance, a friend said. Sara Kuszak spent weeks at a time at sea, preparing meals as the crew chef …

You could hear it from space – billions of grown men crying like babies at the news. From Russia, “Nyeeeeeeet!” From France, “Noooooooon!” From here in the U.S., “Nooooooooo!” Their lament? The report that Salma Hayek has married her French billionaire fiancé. According to French magazine Le Point, as translated …

MIAMI – Scooby-Doo, the mystery-solving cartoon dog, could play a key part in a real life murder case. The trial for 27-year-old Baron Earl Moore began on Tuesday. He is charged with the August 2003 murder of 28-year-old Keith Culbertson. Prosecutors say Moore shot the Homestead man in the face, …

WASHINGTON – When galaxies initially formed, they weren’t the first in the cosmic neighborhood. The supermassive black holes, which reside at the center of galaxies, probably moved in first, a new astronomy study suggests. Measurements from radio telescopes looking at the early universe hint at that answer to this cosmic …

Just like last season, there may be a partial mismatch in the flu shot this year, suggests early data from the United States, Canada and Britain, the Canadian Press reported. The vaccine component is meant to protect against influenza B and is actually not a match for that virus strain, …