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at 4:57 on February 9, 2010, EDT.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Endeavour's astronauts inspected their ship early Tuesday for any launch damage as they raced toward a 200-mile-high rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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at 12:51 on February 8, 2010, EDT.
LONDON - You know an election is coming when British politicians suddenly promise sweeping improvements to the National Health Service, a simultaneous source of national pride and worry.
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at 12:27 on February 8, 2010, EDT.
LAHORE, Pakistan - Authorities arrested six suspected Taliban militants with a suicide vest and hand grenades allegedly on their way Monday to attack a five-star hotel and kill Americans in Pakistan's cultural capital, said police.
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at 18:55 on February 8, 2010, EDT.
CAIRO, Egypt - The No. 2 leader of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood and two other top figures were arrested by police Monday in a dawn sweep targeting members of the nation's most powerful opposition group.
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at 21:10 on February 8, 2010, EDT.
NEW YORK - A graphic designer accused of surreptitiously killing a series of his girlfriend's cats pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated animal cruelty, ending an eerie case in which authorities said the unsuspecting woman kept replacing her dying pets.
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at 12:28 on February 8, 2010, EDT.
BEIJING - A bus collided with a sport utility vehicle Monday and plunged down a mountain ravine in southern China, killing seven people and injuring 50, state media reported.
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at 11:29 on February 7, 2010, EDT.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The old mullah fingers the orange and red beads as a visitor looks over a sheet of paper he has been handed.
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at 15:43 on February 7, 2010, EDT.
WASHINGTON - Residents of the U.S. capital and Mid-Atlantic states Sunday began digging out through piles of wet, heavy snow in below-freezing temperatures while power crews tried to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and clear streets for the commute on Monday.
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at 22:32 on February 7, 2010, EDT.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Ex-President Nestor Kirchner, husband of Argentina's current leader and a hopeful to resume the office, emerged successfully from emergency surgery on a key artery to his brain Sunday, his doctors said.
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at 5:50 on February 9, 2010, EDT.
BEIJING - A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced an activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the country's massive 2008 earthquake to five years in jail for inciting subversion of state power, the man's lawyer said.
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