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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver unveiled plans Monday to create the longest torch relay across one nation in the history of the Olympics. Organizers said they wanted to make the announcement on Canada’s East Coast to show that the Games, particularly the torch …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A Taliban homicide bomber blew himself up Thursday inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing a deputy provincial governor and five other worshippers in the latest assassination of a senior official in President Hamid Karzai’s government, officials said. The attack came hours after a homicide car bomber …

LOS ANGELES – Academy Awards organizers insisted Tuesday their show will go on, though some say the Oscar broadcast could evaporate after the writers strike shut down the Golden Globes ceremony. Without special agreements with the Writers Guild of America, awards planners cannot hire union members to work on their …