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Boston.com: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was in a car accident this morning in Boston’s Back Bay section, but he did not receive medical treatment and is on his way to work, sources told the Globe this morning. A sedan and a passenger van collided at 6:34 a.m. at Commonwealth Avenue and Gloucester Street, [...]

BEIJING (Reuters) – Switzerland remains the world’s most competitive economy, while the United States has fallen from second to fourth after losing the top spot last year, according to the World Economic Forum’s annual rankings issued on Thursday. Sweden, in second spot, and Singapore in third leapfrogged the United States in the WEF’s Global Competitiveness [...]

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) – A suicide car bomber hit the central market of a major city in Russia’s North Caucasus on Thursday, killing at least 15 and wounding more than 130 people in one of the worst terror attacks in the volatile region in years, officials said. The attacker detonated his explosives as he drove [...]

MEXICO CITY (AP) – The third Mexican mayor in a month was slain by suspected drug gang hitmen on the same day the U.S. secretary of state raised hackles in Mexico by saying the country is “looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago.” Hillary Rodham Clinton and other U.S. officials pointed to [...]

Jersualem Post: Hamas spokesman claims PA “crossed all red lines, directly cooperating with enemy” after arresting suspects linked to attacks that left 4 Israelis dead; Barhum: “arrests increase determination to continue resistance.” Hamas accused the Palestinian Authority of “direct cooperation with the enemy” after it arrested Hamas members in conjunction with recent West Bank terrorist [...]

HAVANA (AP) – Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba’s communist economic model doesn’t work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues since stepping down four years ago. The fact that things are not working efficiently on this cash-strapped Caribbean island is hardly [...]

BBC News: Drug-related violence in Mexico increasingly has the hallmarks of an insurgency, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.

Authorities in Broward County, Florida, are looking for two robbers who caught a female clerk by surprise as she was closing down for the night. The duo took cash and lottery tickets before fleeing. (Sept.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)– A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program that flew terrorism suspects to secret prisons.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A former bodyguard sued Britney Spears on Wednesday, claiming the singer repeatedly subjected him to “repeated unwanted sexual advances” and harassment. Fernando Flores filed the sexual harassment lawsuit in suburban Los Angeles, alleging the singer intentionally inflicted emotional distress. He is seeking unspecified damages from the Grammy Award-winner and his former [...]

Los Angeles Times: Federal agents found 37 suspected illegal immigrants, smuggled into the United States from six countries, crammed into a small house in Riverside where some had been held captive for weeks, authorities said Wednesday. Immigration agents raided the “drop house” after a relative of one of the captives called the Los Angeles Police [...]

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MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican marines have arrested seven gunmen suspected of participating in the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants, the government announced Wednesday. Four of the suspects were arrested after a Sept. 3 gunbattle with marines, and the other three were captured days later, spokesman Alejandro Poire said at a news [...]

Arizona Republic: The FBI is investigating the recent vandalism of a Phoenix mosque under construction, officials said Wednesday.