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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian court on Thursday convicted 26 people who were accused of taking part in an alleged coup plot earlier this year and acquitted five others.
Jamaican triple Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt headlines a group of nine athletes contracted to compete in the new Diamond League circuit next year, league organizers and the IAAF announced on Saturday.
Imagine the world’s two fastest men — Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay — crouching into the starting blocks for the 100 meters at the Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field. Or the thunderous staccato claps descending from the East Grandstand as Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva takes aim at a world record in …
A Brainerd area businesswoman started her business to raise airfare to Ethiopia, but the trip created an inspiration to do even more.
Madagascar's political leaders will meet next week to break the deadlock over the make-up of a unity government called for in power-sharing deal, one of the country's two co-president said on Saturday.
WINCHESTER -- The art and the science of coffee roasting meet daily in the corner of an old warehouse off Martinsburg Pike. From behind dark-rimmed glasses, R.C. Gartrell closely monitors each batch of beans as they dance and whirl inside the large cast-iron roasting drum.
CEDAR CITY - The Sury house, with toys and schoolbooks and a melting snowman outside on the grassy hill where it sits, is bustling with activity, baked goods and chatter during the hours the four Sury children are home.
CURRYVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Mornings at the Ritter farm in Curryville are like mornings at many other country homes. The smoky smell of bacon frying fills the air. Kids can be heard shuffling in sock feet across the hardwood floor. The back door bangs shut as teenage boys come in from doing their morning chores.
Our last two columns have taken a look at the role of agricultural policy in increasing food security and thus reducing the number of people who experience chronic hunger in developing countries. In our survey, we have identified policies that have had the effect of reducing the level of food security for many consumers and small-scale agriculturalists and pastoralists in developing countries.
Former Brazilian Francisca Loiola Turner was among the immigrants who swore the oath of American citizenship Friday at the U.S. District Court in Abingdon.
DALLAS -- The shoe apparently fits.
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NAIROBI -- Kenya's Chalbi Desert is a bleak, forbidding stretch of coarse sand and ash-gray ridges broken by clusters of tiny huts. It is also one of the windiest places on Earth, experts say, and it soon will be the site of Africa's largest wind farm.
When South Central District Judge Gail Hagerty gave a group of foster children the chance to don a judge's robe and grab a gavel, Jacob Roubideaux didn't waste any time in taking the place of a judge.
BREWER, Maine -- People will not simply park their cars and stroll with their families into Second Congregational Church on South Main Street on Sunday afternoon. They will park a few blocks …
As of Friday, Nov. 18, 2009, at least 842 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The...
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