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A strong, pre-dawn earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people as it knocked down stone and mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, the government said.

Cyprus police say a body found at a Nicosia cemetery could be the stolen corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos.

Two U.S. missionaries are spending another weekend in a Haitian jail.

Polls closed across Iraq on Sunday as the war-weary population awaits results from the national election that will decide the future of the country’s still-fragile democracy.

German police say four heavily armed robbers who stormed a poker tournament and escaped with the jackpot are still on the run.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai heard a litany of complaints Sunday from residents of Marjah, the town in the south that thousands of U.S., NATO and Afghan troops just seized from the Taliban.

Abu Yahya Azam, a close associate of Usama Bin Laden, was arrested in Karachi Sunday and has been taken to custody, Fox News confirms.

Polls closed across Iraq on Sunday as the war-weary population awaits results from the national election that will decide the future of the country’s still-fragile democracy.

Al Qaeda’s American-born spokesman on Sunday called on Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to emulate the Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood.

A top ballet teacher has appeared in court accused of abducting one of her boy pupils and having sex with him.