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Six hospital managers arrested on negligence charges are in custody for questioning after a hospital blaze killed 91 people in eastern India, authorities said Sunday.

Among the tens of thousands of people happily enduring the freezing temperatures in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square is Alexey, an international lawyer. He tells me he's never protested before.

Peruvian Prime Minister Salomon Lerner has resigned and Oscar Valdes, the interior minister, will replace him, the government said on Saturday.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat reacted strongly Saturday to comments by Republican presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich that the Palestinians are an "invented" people, calling it "the most racist statement I've ever seen…

Radioactive water leaked inside a nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan, but there was no impact on the surrounding area, a spokesman for the plant operator said Saturday.

From a distance, he appears to be taking a nap. His long, delicate eyelashes are closed as his head rests on a blanket.

The wife of a retired FBI agent who went missing in Iran nearly five years ago said the family received a hostage video of her husband a “little more than a year ago” and released it publicly now to help free him.

Syria's leading opposition movement warned Friday of an impending government "massacre" designed to crush activists in the city of Homs, which has emerged as a center of anti-regime unrest.

A majority of European leaders agreed early Friday on a new deal to try to resolve the continent's debt crisis, but some countries including Britain refused to back a broader treaty change.

Investigators have arrested three staff members after a fire that killed more than 80 people in a hospital Friday in eastern India.