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| • Crews search for people trapped in New Zealand rubble |
 Rescue teams were searching for trapped people after a major earthquake struck Christchurch.
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| • ‘We were all screaming — we got the animals and ran’ |
| Wen Baragrey, a writer who lives by the sea in Christchurch, New Zealand, shares her chaotic escape from her swaying home during the early morning earthquake that struck. |
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| • NASA advises Chile on trapped, isolated miners |
 A team of NASA doctors and engineers recommended Friday that Chilean authorities regulate the day-and-night sleep patterns of 33 trapped miners, boost their Vitamin D intake and phase in an exercise program as their nutrition improves.
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| • UPS 747 cargo plane crashes in Dubai |
 A UPS 747 cargo plane with two crew aboard crashed in Dubai shortly after takeoff Friday, the company said.
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| • Deadly bomb blast rocks rally in Pakistan |
 A suicide bomber struck a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 54 people in the second major attack this week.
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| • 2 lawmakers among 6 dead in Mexico plane crash |
| A plane crash in southern Mexico has killed all six people on board, including two federal legislators and two mayors-elect. |
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| • 7 defendants convicted in Portugal sex abuse trial |
 Seven people were convicted of child sex abuse in Portugal on Friday in a major trial that lasted nearly six years and shocked the country.
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| • Gates: U.S. troops face 'tough days' ahead |
 As the last of 30,000 U.S. reinforcements arrive in Afghanistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday got a firsthand look at operations in the dangerous south.
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| • New cables tie West Africa closer to Internet |
 For a decade, West Africa's main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.
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| • Israel urged to open up atomic program |
| The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has invited Israel to consider joining a global anti-nuclear arms pact and to place all its atomic facilities under his agency's inspections, an IAEA report said on Friday. |
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| • Experts see trouble ahead for developed world |
 Experts gathered in Italy Friday offered a generally gloomy outlook — especially for the United States and much of the industrialized world.
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| • Nein, danke! German kids get porn pens |
| To sweeten their first day at primary school German children are normally given a cone filled with sweets, but children in Essen opened theirs to find raunchy writing instruments that project erotic images. |
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| • Mobs attack home of Iranian opposition leader |
 Pro-government crowds swarmed outside the battered home of a key Iranian opposition leader Friday after militiamen attacked with firebombs and beat a bodyguard unconscious in a brazen message of intimidation and pinpoint pressure on dissent.
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| • Volcano, dormant 400 years, spews new ash |
 An Indonesian volcano that was quiet for four centuries shot a new, powerful burst of hot ash more than 10,000 feet in the air Friday, sending frightened residents fleeing to safety for the second time this week.
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| • Castro dons uniform for first big speech in years |
 At 84 and having dusted off his military uniform, Fidel Castro on Friday addressed his first political rally since becoming ill and resigning as president in 2006.
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| • Mom’s hug revives baby that was pronounced dead |
| “He’s doing things dead babies don’t do — you might want to come see this!” Kate Ogg told doctors who had declared her premature baby dead. After the Australian mom held him to her body for two hours in a method called “kangaroo care,” the infant stirred to life. |
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| • World Blog: In touch from Titanic wreck scene |
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