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Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:59am

(AP) — All that is left of Shayne Patteson's three-bedroom home is the tiny area where his wife hunkered down under a mattress to protect their three children when a tornado packing winds of at least 200 mph slammed through his neighborhood.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:59am

(AP) — For bicyclist Rudi Saldia, you could say a cat is his co-pilot.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:56am

(AP) — International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde is facing questions at a special Paris court Thursday over her role in the 400 million euro ($520 million) pay-off to a controversial businessman when she was France's finance minister.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:55am

(AP) — A brave scout leader who may have prevented further violence has emerged as an unlikely hero in the apparent terror attack that left one man dead on the streets of London.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:53am

(AP) — British official: Both suspects in London attack were part of earlier security services probes.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:51am

(AP) — A car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by a separatist insurgency and Islamic militancy, police said.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:39am

(AP) — It could have been the perfect matchup to cap an unforgettable game. LeBron James driving to the rim to face Roy Hibbert, one play to decide Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:39am

(AP) — A senator says repeated sexual assaults in the military allow a culture to continue.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:39am

(AP) — Beatles frontman Paul McCartney has asked a Russian judge to release members of the Pussy Riot punk group from prison.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:38am

(AP) — Iraqi officials say gunmen have shot dead four soldiers at an army checkpoint north of Baghdad.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:35am

(AP) — An 80-year-old Japanese man who has had four heart operations in recent years became the oldest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest on Thursday — although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:31am

(AP) — A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:27am

(AP) — An American man suspected of killing four people is on the run in the Czech Republic and likely armed, officials said Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:25am

(AP) — Opponents and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad traded heavy machine gun fire and mortar shells in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, leaving five people dead in what was described as some of the heaviest fighting there in years, officials said Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:25am

(AP) — Japan's financial markets gyrated wildly Thursday, underscoring the vulnerability of its economy to a loss of investor confidence as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attempts shock monetary easing to end two decades of stagnation.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:23am

(AP) — The momentum of a late sell-off on Wall Street is carrying through for a second day, with U.S. futures and global stock markets in retreat.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:20am

A look at the key known facts about the Wednesday attack in south London, when two men hacked another to death near military barracks.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:19am

(AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:03am

(AP) — A survey shows China's manufacturing contracted this month, adding to signs a fragile recovery in the world's No. 2 economy is slowing.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:01am

(AP) — Attackers in Niger detonated two car bombs at dawn on Thursday, one in the city of Agadez where a military barracks was targeted and one in Arlit where a French company operates a uranium mine, injuring more than a dozen people.