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KARABULAK, Russia (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed two policemen in Russia's Ingushetia region on Monday, the latest in a series of attacks that underscores the threat from an Islamist insurgency on the nation's southern flank.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A stranded Chinese coal ship leaking oil onto Australia's Great Barrier Reef is an environmental time bomb with the potential to devastate large protected areas of the reef, activists said on Monday.

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MEXICALI, Mexico (Reuters) - Dozens of aftershocks following a big earthquake rattled the Mexico-Californian border area on Monday as families too scared to return to damaged homes milled around in streets and parks.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese central bank adviser said Beijing could ease pressure over the yuan by buying more from recession-hit U.S. states, but China had no official reaction on Monday to the Obama administration's delay of a contentious currency report.

Sexual health experts say the increase of multidrug resistance in gonorrhea raises the very real possibility that strains of

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A stranded Chinese coal ship leaking oil onto Australia's Great Barrier Reef is an environmental time bomb with the potential to devastate large protected areas of the reef, activists said on Monday.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Protesters targeted Thailand's elections watchdog on Monday, at one point storming its office, while ignoring orders to leave Bangkok's main shopping district for a third day in an increasingly bold rally to force elections.

XIANGNING, China (Reuters) - At least 115 miners were pulled alive from a flooded coal mine in north China after being trapped for over a week, eating bark to survive, prompting jubilant officials to hail their survival a miracle.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's war on the drug trade is futile even if cartel bosses are caught or killed as millions of people are involved in the illicit business, a senior drug chief said in an interview published on Sunday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai, under fire for anti-Western remarks, distanced himself from his foreign backers in a speech on Sunday, telling tribal elders Afghans need to see their leaders are not "puppets."

Climate change may already be hitting you--in the stomach. A new analysis reveals that higher average temperatures in Montana over the last six decades equal less wheat.  

Plant scientist Luther Talbert of Montana State University and his colleagues looked at weather records for the Mountain State from 1950 to 2007. The month of March has had the most warming overall, increasing by nearly 0.1 degree Celsius per year on average. As a result, farmers now plant wheat 10 days earlier.  

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VENTERSDORP, South Africa (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma called for calm on Sunday after the killing of white far-right leader Eugene Terre'blanche in a suspected pay dispute with black workers fanned fears of racial strains.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A leading cardinal defended Pope Benedict at an unusual address at the pontiff's Easter Sunday Mass, saying the Church would not be intimidated by "petty gossip" about sexual abuse of children by priests.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three suicide bombers detonated car bombs within moments of each other in a coordinated attack on foreign embassies in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing as many as 41 people and wounding more than 200.

Teardown specialist Luke Soules of iFixit takes on the Apple iPad. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Iran and China agreed during talks in Beijing that sanctions "have lost their effectiveness," chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Friday after meeting senior Chinese officials.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - More than 50,000 protesters defied orders to leave the Thai capital's main shopping district on Sunday despite threats of mass arrests, raising the stakes in the fourth week of street rallies against the government.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc's iPad hit stores on Saturday after months of buildup, igniting excitement and kicking off a critical sales period that will determine if the sleek tablet computer becomes the next blockbuster.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a leader of the court's liberal wing, will decide soon whether to retire after 35 years on the court, two newspapers on Saturday quoted him as saying.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Bells, drums, ecstatic chants and flaming candles lit from the tomb of Jesus brought Easter to a joyful climax in Jerusalem on Saturday for Palestinians and thousands of Orthodox Christian pilgrims from around the world.