TUCSON, Ariz. a " A Mexican man who prosecutors call the leader of a group that smuggled tons of marijuana into the U.S. has been sentenced to 27 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $4 million to the American government.Carlos Molinares Nunez, also known as 'Calinche', was charged in November 2006.

Many Americans have skewed perceptions when it comes to their weight, often believing they are thinner than they really are, even when the scales are shouting otherwise, a new poll finds.

A popular opposition website in authoritarian Belarus says its editor was found dead amid an ongoing crackdown on government critics and independent media.

She's been found, and reportedly without help from Internet group 4Chan. The second such incident within a short period involving YouTube videos that mobilized the Web, a teenager in Bosnia who horrifically was filmed throwing puppies into river has been tracked down by authorities.

Firefighters said it was an "absolute miracle" no-one was killed in an explosion at a Hare Krishna temple.

A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said.

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A 7.2 magnitude earthquake has struck about 20 miles northwest of Christchurch, New Zealand, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

There has been a rush of women coming forward and claiming relationships with the miners in order to gain government benefits.

Worries about spying by the U.S. and Israel spurred plans to sharply limit BlackBerry services in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai's police chief said in comments that suggest a tough line in talks with the smart phone maker.

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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Hurricane Earl churned past the North Carolina Outer Banks and its powerful gusts and driving rains were starting to be felt in southeastern Virginia early Friday, the beginning of at least 24 hours of stormy, windy weather along the East Coast.

A teenager has been arrested in connection with a man being assaulted with a power drill.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he saw and heard evidence the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is taking hold in critical Kandahar province.

Police official Shafiullah Khan said the bomb was detonated by remote control Friday as officers patrolled in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where floods have affected millions of people in recent weeks.

President Felipe Calderon tried to rally frustrated Mexicans behind his increasingly bloody drug war Thursday, saying he knows violence has surged under his watch, but arguing that it is the price of confronting powerful and brutal cartels.

In an online statement, the Animal Liberation Front says it carried out the attacks last week near the towns of Kastoria and Siatista, in the heart of Greece's fur industry.

Acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking's new book, The Grand Design , has not even released yet, but it has already caused a stir.

The power of the Internet is still being shown in the efforts to track down the "puppy throwing girl," the one who threw a number of live puppies into a river, on camera, in a horrific video.