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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The U.S. military said disturbing video that shows masked boys brandishing guns was an al Qaeda in Iraq training and recruiting tool.

London - Two senior Church of England bishops called on Tuesday for Britons to cut back on carbon, rather than the more traditional chocolate and alcohol, for the Christian period of Lent this year.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco voters will decide on Tuesday whether to remove the famous Alcatraz Prison visited by thousands of tourists a day and instead create a “global peace centre.”

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A Pakistani army helicopter crashed Wednesday in the country’s tribal region, killing Maj. Gen. Javid Sultan and seven members of his staff — including two other generals — an army spokesman told CNN.

REDDING, Calif. — Raymond Jacobs, believed to be the last surviving member of the group of Marines photographed during the original U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima during World War II, has died at age 82.

At least 20 people have been killed and 80 wounded after twin explosions rocked a residential area in Bosaso, north-eastern Somalia.

(CNN) — Tornadoes that roared through parts of Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi killed at least 45 people and injured more than 100 others Tuesday night and early Wednesday, authorities said.

GAZA, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) — The Islamic Hamas movement’s armed wing said Wednesday that its fighters have launched some 26 homemade rockets into Israeli targets near Gaza since Tuesday night.

NEW YORK - As broadcast networks head into the February sweeps period, the prolonged writers strike is starting to be felt in prime-time ratings.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died Tuesday at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said. He was thought to be 91 years old.

Israel’s Mossad spy agency estimates Iran will develop a nuclear weapon within three years and continue to provide rockets to regional armed groups, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

HARTSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Firefighters managed early Wednesday to contain a massive fire that erupted at a natural gas pumping station after a strong storm moved through the area.

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL — Investigators say a woman accused of drunk driving had a case of beer buckled up safely, and a one year old girl sitting in the backseat without a seatbelt or car seat.

Ludwigshafen, Germany - If there weren’t pictures to prove it, people might have a hard time believing a loving father threw his child multiple stories to waiting rescuers below. This dangerous gamble was taken against an almost certain death in a smoke-filled burning building where, in the end, nine other people perished. The baby, however, survived. Rescuers managed to catch and save the baby from below.

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton fought for a breakout in their eyeball-to-eyeball Democratic duel while Republican John McCain hoped to bury his rival’s presidential hopes in a blur of voting Tuesday from Alaska to the Atlantic.