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BANGKOK (AP) -- As Thailand's floodwaters continue their slow journey to the sea, large swaths of the country have drained and dried, leaving behind a stinky, thick grime on everything touched by the nation's worst deluge in more than a half century....

LONDON (AP) -- BAA Ltd., the owner of Heathrow airport, must sell another London airport and one in Scotland to promote greater competition, Britain's anti-monopoly agency said Wednesday....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippine government said China on Wednesday executed three Filipinos convicted of drug smuggling despite last-minute appeals for clemency and political concessions by the Southeast Asian country's leaders....

ONAGAWA, Japan (AP) -- As a massive tsunami ravaged this Japanese fishing town, hundreds of residents fled for the safest place they knew: the local nuclear power plant....

MOSCOW (AP) -- The American Ballet Theatre has returned to Moscow for the first time since the 1960s and the first time since the defection of Mikhail Baryshnikov, who left Russia's famed Bolshoi Theatre to bring his luminous star power to the U.S. ballet company....

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (AP) -- A man suspected of stealing thousands of dollars (euros) from the cargo hold of a plane in flight has been arrested in Dutch St. Maarten and extradited to a nearby French island to face charges, a prosecutor said Tuesday....

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Hugo Chavez, winner of a journalism award?...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Facebook on Tuesday removed a page calling on Palestinians to take up arms against Israel, following a high-profile Israeli appeal to the popular social-networking site....

LONDON (AP) -- Fresh from his brother's bachelor party, Prince Harry is hitting the ice....

LONDON (AP) -- There's still a month to go until the royal wedding and yet some Britons are already asking: Is it over yet?...