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Caen (France) (AFP) - As the World War II victors celebrate the anniversary of the June 6, 1944, landings in Normandy, historians recall that 3,000 French civilians died under Allied...

Whitstable (United Kingdom) (AFP) - John Roberts was a 20-year-old British Royal Navy officer during the D-Day landings 80 years ago and remembers making light of the daring mission at...

Los Angeles (AFP) - Enedina Canul wanted to play softball, but the 47-year-old didn't have a bat -- and that was the least of her problems. Her simple desire to...

Washington (AFP) - A Pfizer medicine has been shown to greatly reduce cancer progression and improve survival outcomes for people in the advanced stages of a form of lung cancer,...

Washington (AFP) - Russia is using North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine, a new Pentagon report says, citing debris analysis to confirm long-standing allegations that Pyongyang has been sending weapons...

New York (AFP) - Boeing has committed to enhanced safety protocols that include more inspectors and new performance benchmarks under a plan demanded by regulators, US air safety authorities said...

Washington (AFP) - US officials on Thursday reported the country's third human case of bird flu linked to the current outbreak of the virus in dairy cattle. The Michigan farm...

Washington (AFP) - A 50-year-old man was executed by lethal injection Thursday in the southern US state of Alabama for the murders of an elderly couple, prison officials said. Jamie...

New York (AFP) - Major League Baseball formally adopted statistics from the racially segregated Negro Leagues into its official history on Wednesday, rewriting the record books at a stroke in...

New York (AFP) - Boeing is expected to deliver on Thursday a "comprehensive action plan" required by US air safety regulators after a near-catastrophic incident in January. The American aeronautics...