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U.S. drones fired five missiles at a home in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border Friday, killing at least six people, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strikes come during an unusually tense time for Pakistan-U.S. relations, and a day after Pakistan's army chief warned that such attacks were counterproductive.

Five people were also wounded in the strike in Spinwam village in North Waziristan, the two intelligence officials said. The exact identities of the victims were not immediately clear, but North Waziristan hosts Islamist militant factions accused of targeting Western forces in neighboring Afghanistan.

U.S. missiles killed 25 people in an al-Qaida and Taliban sanctuary close to the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani officials said, signaling American intent to press ahead with such attacks despite renewed protests by Islamabad.

In another reminder of the difficulties facing Washington, a well-known politician said he and his followers would try to "blockade" NATO supplies that pass through Pakistan en route to Afghanistan over the weekend to protest the strikes.

Syria's government approved on Tuesday a bill to rescind a decades-old emergency law and agreed to abolish the state security court, after weeks of pro-democracy protests and hundreds of deaths.

The cabinet also approved a bill regulating demonstrations, the state news agency SANA reported, only hours after the interior minister imposed a total ban on political gatherings and after security forces fired on protesters in the city of Homs, killing four.

Powerplay Golf is giving a very old sport a couple of new twists.

Hoping to change the face of a sport often considered to be staid and boring, organizers of the three-event series are looking to bring in new fans by offering a faster pace and more excitement with two pins per green and only nine holes in a round.

An Oregon man suspected of raping a woman inside a concourse at Denver International Airport was formally charged on Tuesday with sexual assault, prosecutors said.

Noel Alexander Bertrand, 26, is facing one count of class 3 felony sexual assault for the April 12 incident, said Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney's Office.

Nigeria's post-election riots have highlighted the likelihood of further bloodshed and growing radicalism in a Muslim north that feels ever more marginalized from a richer and more dynamic south.

Although it is too early to see the troubles in the north as a sign of Africa's most populous nation coming apart, President Goodluck Jonathan and northern leaders face a serious challenge to avoid a drift toward greater polarization.

The typical American high school student is taking harder courses and performing better in them, according to a new study released on Wednesday.

The 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress High School Transcript Study, published by the same group who produce "The Nation's Report Card," underlines the importance of rigorous curriculum, particularly with higher-level math and science courses, as a key to greater achievement in high school.

A Texas wildfire burning about 70 miles from the Dallas-Fort Worth area is more than twice as big as previous estimates, and firefighters will face difficult conditions Tuesday battling the blaze, officials said.

The fire at Possum Kingdom Lake about 70 miles west of Fort Worth has grown to nearly 150,000 acres from estimates a day earlier of about 63,000 acres, according to the Texas Forest Service.

Arsenal is poised to become the fifth Premier League club to have an American owner after sports tycoon Stan Kroenke agreed a deal for a takeover that values the soccer club at 731 million pounds ($1.2 billion).

Billionaire Kroenke, who already owns close to 30 percent of the London club, said on Monday he had offered shareholders 11,750 pounds per share and had already secured the backing of 16.1 percent shareholder Danny Fiszman and 15.9 percent shareholder Nina Bracewell-Smith.

Center for Breast Health at Virginia Hospital Center Named in Honor of Reinsch Pierce Family

ARLINGTON, Va., April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- One of Virginia Hospital Center's most prestigious Centers has been renamed. The Reinsch Pierce Family Center for Breast Health at Virginia Hospital Center has been named for a local family with a rich Arlington heritage that extended its philanthropic support to enhance patient care and education. This special gift from the Reinsch Pierce Family was made in loving memory of Dolores G. Reinsch (1913 2010) along with her husband, Emerson G. Reinsch (1903 1988) in appreciation for the excellent healthcare they received at the Hospital since its opening in 1944.

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We've been pleased with the early adoption of our iPhone and iPad apps and believe we are just getting started," Eric Shoup, senior vice president of product for Ancestry.com, said in a . "It's a natural extension of the Ancestry.com service and another way to help our members discover, preserve and share their family history."

Ancestry.com Inc., the world's largest online family history resource, has nearly 1.4 million paying subscribers, who have created more than 20 million family trees with over 2 billion profiles. In the past 14 years, more than 6 billion records have been added to the site.

The world's biggest miner BHP Billiton on Wednesday said it boosted iron ore production in the first three months of the year despite adverse weather, but coking coal output fell.

Iron ore production jumped seven percent to 33.2 million tonnes, in contrast to coking coal which slumped 18 percent to 6.7 million metric tonnes in the three months to March -- the third quarter of BHP's financial year.

Apple Inc. has sued Samsung Electronics Co., saying the South Korean company's Galaxy line of smartphones and tablet computers copy Apple's popular iPad and iPhone.

In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Apple alleges the product design, user interface and packaging of the Galaxy products "slavishly copy" Apple.

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for April 11-17. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.

1. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 23.03 million.

A 2,500-year-old Babylonian artifact sometimes described as the world's first human rights charter was returning to the British Museum Monday after a seven-month loan to Iran.

Hundreds of thousands of people viewed the Cyrus Cylinder while it was on display at Iran's National Museum.

Seagate has agreed to buy Samsung's hard drive business for $1.38 billion in a further consolidation of an industry that faces growing competition from a newer storage technology, popular in smartphones and tablet computers.

The cash-and-stock deal announced Tuesday would give South Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung Electronics Co. a stake of nearly 10 percent in Seagate Technology PLC, one of the few remaining makers of hard disk drives, which store data in traditional PCs.

A U.N.-appointed panel has found "credible allegations" that tens of thousands of civilians were killed and war crimes were committed in the final months of Sri Lanka's war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and urged the investigation and prosecution of those responsible.

"The panel found credible allegations, which if proven, indicate that a wide range of serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law were committed both by the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE, some of which would amount to war crimes," an excerpt of the report, leaked to Sri Lankan newspapers, says.

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Scientists judge the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico as nearly back to normal one year after the BP oil spill, but with glaring blemishes that restrain their optimism about nature's resiliency, an Associated Press survey of researchers shows.

More than three dozen scientists grade the Gulf's big picture health a 68 on average, using a 1-to-100 scale. What's remarkable is that that's just a few points below the 71 the same researchers gave last summer when asked what grade they would give the ecosystem before the spill. And it's an improvement from the 65 given back in October.