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A Massachusetts parent wants the popular novel “The Lovely Bones,” narrated by a 14-year-old girl who was raped and murdered by a neighbor, pulled from her daughters’ middle-school library shelves, according to The Boston Globe. The best-selling book by Alice Sebold has been commonplace in local libraries. Plans for a …

TIRANA, Albania – Troops and police cordoned off a smoldering army depot north of the capital as crews searched Sunday for workers missing following a chain of explosions that killed at least nine people and injured hundreds. Nine bodies have been found but 10 workers remained missing Sunday, authorities said. …

HAVANA – Fidel Castro said Friday that the Bush administration was wrong to prohibit Cuba from sending a team to next year’s World Baseball Classic. “He is very much a fool,” the Cuban president said of Bush. “He doesn’t know who the Cuban baseball players are, or that they are …