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Details: Written by DAVID KEYTON and JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press; Published: 10 December 2018

Congolese hospital founder Dr. Denis Mukwege and Iraqi activist Nadia Murad share this year's Nobel Peace Prize

Details: Written by By SAMUEL PETREQUIN, Associated Press; Published: 07 December 2018

(AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Unrest began after a sharp increase in diesel prices; movement's demands now include increased benefits to help workers, retirees and students

Details: Written by MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer; Published: 05 December 2018

Ten previous attempts using deceased donors in the Czech Republic, Turkey and the U.S. have failed

Details: Written by MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer; Published: 26 November 2018

A spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars lands after a six-month, 300 million-mile journey

Details: Written by Hazel Trice Edney; Published: 14 November 2018

Martin Luther King III

While the deaths were widely reported as a mass suicide from cyanide-laced Flavor Aide, many of the factual details remain mysteries

Details: Written by DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JILL COLVIN, Associated Press; Published: 12 November 2018

For President Donald Trump in Paris, America First meant largely America alone

Details: Written by MICHAEL LIEDTKE and BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writers; Published: 09 October 2018

A camera sold by a company with a questionable track record on protecting user privacy may be a stretch

Details: Written by Darlene Superville, Associated Press; Published: 03 October 2018

First lady Melania Trump walks through the "Door Of No Return" with Cape Coast Castle museum educator Kwesi Essel-Blankson. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

"The dungeons that I saw, it's really something that people should see and experience," the first lady said of her visit.

Details: Written by NINIEK KARMINI and STEPHEN WRIGHT, Associated Press; Published: 02 October 2018

The death toll reached 1,234 and supplies of food, water, fuel and medicine have yet to reach the hardest-hit areas outside Palu

Details: Written by By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press; Published: 28 September 2018

(AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo, File)

88-year-old Rev. Fernando Karadima was sanctioned in 2011 to live a lifetime of 'penance and prayer'

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