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Hungary zigzags when it comes to Russia

By Megan K. Stack

There's a museum in Budapest called the House of Terror. It has a metal awning with the word "terror" carved...

From the archives: Reformers Win 1st Vote for New Hungary Party

Golf courses suffer as recession deals a bogey

By Roger Vincent

From his backyard, Joseph Leggett used to look out over the green, manicured fairways of the Palm Desert...

There's a new age of golf in New Mexico

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1. Iran begins air-defense drills to protect nuclear sites

2. After spending billions, state remains hampered by outmoded, unreliable computer systems

3. Michael Jackson's white glove brings in $350,000 at auction

4. Bishop asked Kennedy to stop taking Communion

5. A teen party, a mysterious death -- and a town's unanswered grief

6. Centrist senators say healthcare bill needs major changes

7. Child's play

8. 'New Moon' eclipsing two box-office records

9. Bill Plaschke: The city could be UCLA's for the taking

10. Mexican American former anti-drug chief's reputation on trial

1. Golf courses suffer as recession deals a bogey

2. Steve Lopez: The emergency room bill is enough to make you sick

3. After spending billions, state remains hampered by outmoded, unreliable computer systems

4. A teen party, a mysterious death -- and a town's unanswered grief

5. When to take a sick child to the ER

6. Understanding China

7. A more flavorful dry-brined turkey

8. Attack on Calabasas boy probed for tie to Facebook group

9. Recipe: Petto di pollo con Gorgonzola at La Finestra

10. Little Tokyo wary of proposed light-rail connector line

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Rising sea levels threaten Caribbean region

By Chris Kraul

The effect of climate change is anything but hypothetical to retired Colombian naval officer German Alfonso. Just ask him about the time...

A climate change dust-up

By Jim Tankersley and Henry Chu

Is it a "Warmist Conspiracy," or a case of an e-mail being "taken completely out of context"?

Large Hadron Collider is back online

Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10-billion...

O.C. Marine is called a hero at Afghanistan memorial service

By Tony Perry

Reporting from Forward Operating Base Geronimo, Afghanistan -- Lance...

Sabbath protest in Jerusalem

About 3,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated Saturday outside an Intel plant in Jerusalem to protest its operating on the Jewish Sabbath, an...

Rocket is fired at Afghan hotel housing foreign humanitarian workers

By Laura King

Suspected insurgents fired a rocket Saturday at a luxury hotel that had previously come under attack, injuring two people and rekindling...

China mine death toll mounts

Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground today as the death toll from a huge gas explosion in a northern...

Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza Strip

Israeli planes carried out airstrikes against targets in the Gaza Strip today, injuring seven people, Palestinian medical workers said.

Venezuela's Chavez has praise for 'bad guys'

President Hugo Chavez is praising Ilich Ramirez Sanchez -- a.k.a. "Carlos the Jackal," the imprisoned Venezuelan once notorious for a series...

Children starve in parched southern Madagascar

By Robyn Dixon

Foreigners have come to Anjandobo village, a cluster of wooden huts on the desolate red dust of southern Madagascar. They're vaza --...

U.S., Russia call for Iran to accept nuclear deal

By Peter Nicholas

Both President Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday they are losing patience with Iran and want a commitment that would ease...

'Carbon tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitable, advocate says

By Henry Chu

With the global climate change summit in Copenhagen just a few weeks away, gloom has settled in many quarters over the increasing...

Outages dim Chavez popularity

By Chris Kraul

Power outages are hitting Henrique Vollmer's rum distillery several times a week, interrupting production, damaging equipment and...

U.S. Afghanistan debate curbs Gates on Canada visit

By Julian E. Barnes

As the Obama administration wrestles over its new Afghanistan strategy, the domestic debate is having far-reaching implications for the...

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