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A white teen convicted of murdering four blacks, including two children, in a racist killing spree in South Africa's North West province was sentenced Friday to four life terms in prison.

For the first time in 400 years, the beaver has returned to Great Britain.

Nearly 300 people have died from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe that is compounded by the country's collapsing health-care system, according to the World Health Organization.

Armed men entered a Congolese camp for displaced people Friday to kidnap and rape a girl, but when the girl screamed, the gunmen fired shots, killing a 20-year-old woman, a U.N. spokesman said.

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Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Barack Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, the CEO of Verizon Wireless tells CNN. Obama advisors say the president-elect no longer uses the phone.

Construction work has stopped on Europe's tallest building after developers said their lofty ambitions had been hit by the global financial crisis, a Russian news agency reported Friday.

More than $150 million dollars has been paid in ransom to pirates around the Horn of Africa over the past 12 months, Kenya's foreign minister said Friday.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives during a funeral procession in northwest Pakistan late Friday morning, killing six people and injuring dozens of others, police said.

The successful transplant of a lab-grown windpipe almost did not happen when budget airline staff refused to allow the transportation of stem cells needed for the operation, UK newspapers reported Friday.

An Indian warship has exchanged fire with a pirate "mother vessel" off the hijacking-plagued Horn of Africa, leaving the ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden, an official said Wednesday.

The trial of three men accused of being involved in a plot to murder Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya will take place behind closed doors, a Moscow court ruled Wednesday.