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Four Olympians lose medals for steroid use at AthensFour Olympians lose medals: Four track and field athletes from eastern Europe were ordered to return their medals won in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.聽 The retroactive tests bring the number of Athens Olympians to lose medals to 31, including 11 medal winners and three gold medalists.
Guatemalan police arrest John McAfeeJohn MacAfee, the software guru who went on the run last month after Belize police tried questioning him about the shooting of a neighbor, was arrested in Guatemala Wednesday.
NATO urges North Korea to cancel rocket launchNATO joins the chorus of those like Russia and China who are calling on North Korea to abandon its planned rocket launch, saying it would violate UN Security Council聽restrictions.
Born to rule? Royal pregnancy highlights succession issuesThe first child of Prince William and his wife, Kate, will be born a king or a queen in waiting, according to new succession rules designed to give聽royal聽daughters the same rights as sons.
Philippine typhoon: International aid agencies appeal for $4.8 millionA day after a powerful聽typhoon聽killed nearly 300 people in the southern Philippines, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies issued an urgent appeal for money to aid survivors.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood calls for pro-Morsi rallyThe largest Islamist political group in the Middle Eastern nation is calling on supporters of Egypt's president to gather at the presidential palace in Cairo.
Iran lawmaker affirms Tehran has US drone 鈥� from the CIA, perhaps?The US Navy has denied it's missing any ScanEagle drones. But Iran claims to have evidence of the drone. An Iranian lawmaker suggests that maybe the CIA, instead of the Pentagon, is missing a spy drone.- Swiss spy warning sent to CIA, MI6 after secret data theftSwiss spy warning: A disgruntled IT technician at the Swiss intelligence service stole terabytes of secret data from computers. The Swiss spy agency sent a warning to the CIA, MI6 and other intelligence services about the breach of security.聽
The Philippines: Typhoon brings fierce winds, rainOfficials estimate 280 people have died as a result of Typhoon Bopha, which made landfall Tuesday. Flooding and mudslides have affected most of the countryside in the聽Compostela Valley. The typhoon caused power outages and ruined roads and bridges.聽
Can Egypt's constitution withstand turmoil?Tens of thousands of Egyptians protested outside the presidential palace on Tuesday. Egypt's first democratically elected president,聽Mohammed Morsi, faces fierce opposition to his policies.聽
John McAfee surfaces, planning to seek asylum in GuatemalaMcAfee聽is now at a hotel in Guatemala City after sneaking out of neighboring Belize, where police have called him a person of interest in a November murder.
Protesters and police clash outside Egyptian presidential palaceEgyptian police fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating against Morsi's call for a referendum on a new constitution.
Egypt: Thousands to march on presidential palaceThe march comes amid rising anger over the draft charter and decrees issued by Egypt's Morsi giving himself sweeping powers. Morsi called for a nationwide referendum on the draft constitution on Dec. 15.- Mortar slams into Syrian school, killing 29 studentsWhile concerns over the potential use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government increase, a conventional weapon does lethal damage in a Damascus suburb.
Typhoon Bopha hammers Philippines, leaving at least 40 fatalitiesTyphoon Bopha is one of the strongest typhoons to hit the Philippines this year. While some 20 major storms normally lash the Philippines annually, the southern provinces being battered by Bopha are unaccustomed to fierce typhoons.
U.N. pulls staff from Damascus, as fighting in Syria escalatesOver the past few weeks the fighting in the Syrian capital of Damascus has steadily grown worse as the rebels continue their assaults on the government-held city.
John McAfee claims to have escaped Belize, is still on the runMcAfee聽claimed in a blog posting he had evaded authorities by staging an elaborate distraction in neighboring Mexico.
Kate Middleton pregnant: Where is the child in the line of succession?Kate Middleton pregnant: Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge could have a boy or girl, but it won't change the line of succession. The Royal Family is "delighted' that Kate Middleton is pregnant.
Russia, China warn North Korea about potential rocket launchThe two Asian superpowers are trying to convince their small Communist neighbor that launching another rocket is not in its best interest.
Japan begins inspection of 50 tunnels after collapse kills nine peopleAn estimated 270 concrete slabs, each weighing 1.4 metric tons, fell from the roof of the Sasago Tunnel onto moving vehicles below. Inspectors suspect bolts holding the concrete roof panels failed聽 in the tunnel 50 miles west of Tokyo,
