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HYDERABAD, India – A powerful Indian politician and four other people were killed when their helicopter crashed in the dense jungles of southern India during a pounding rainstorm, Indian media reported Thursday. The helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh state Chief Minister Y.S.R. Reddy, 60, lost contact with air traffic controllers Wednesday …

LOS ANGELES – A former emergency room doctor who deliberately braked so that two bicyclists rammed into his car in a road rage incident was sentenced Friday to five years in state prison. Christopher Thomas Thompson, 60, was sentenced in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Prosecutors had sought an eight-year …

Crews rescued a security guard Thursday from the U.N. headquarters building that collapsed in the Haiti earthquake, “a small miracle” as 36 U.N. personnel were confirmed dead and nearly 200 remained missing, the head of the world body said. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the U.N.’s mission chief, Hedi Annabi, and …