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Scientists: Baby born with HIV cured 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 04:29 PM PST
 This image provided by Johns Hopkins Medicine shows Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins' Children's Center in Baltimore. A baby, born with the AIDS virus, appears to have been cured scientists announced Sunday, March 3, 2013, describing the case of a child from Mississippi, who's now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection. If the child remains free of HIV, it would mark only the world's second known cure. Specialists say the finding offers exciting clues for how to eliminate HIV infection in children. "Maybe we'll be able to block this reservoir seeding," Persaud said. (AP Photo/Johns Hopkins Medicine)The case of a Mississippi child who's now 2½ and apparently free of infection could be only the world's second reported cure.
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Budget fight becomes Obama's big gamble 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 06:00 PM PST
 Budget Fight Becomes President Obama's Big GambleThe president's budget gamble has only gotten bigger as Washington’s response to it has gotten smaller.
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Britian's Queen Elizabeth II hospitalized 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 02:09 PM PST
 FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II looks up and waves to members of staff of The Foreign and Commonwealth Office as she ends an official visit which is part of her Jubilee celebrations in London. Queen Elizabeth has been taken to the King Edward VII hospital in central London suffering from gastroenteritis, Sunday, March 3, 2013. A palace spokesman said she was expected to stay in hospital for two days and all engagements for this week will be either postponed or cancelled.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant Pool, file)The queen was hospitalized over an apparent stomach virus that has ailed her for days.
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Papal vote preparations start in earnest at Vatican 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 06:25 PM PST
 A statue is silhouetted in Saint Peter's Square at the VaticanCardinals will sketch an identikit for a new pope and ponder who among them might fit it.
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Biden leads re-enactment of voting rights march 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 06:50 PM PST
 Vice President Joe Biden and other lawmakers leads a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 3, 2013. They were commemorating the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when police officers beat marchers when they crossed the bridge on a march from Selma to Montgomery. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)The vice president and black leaders said efforts to diminish black voters' impact continue.
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Obama to tap Walmart exec as budget director 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 07:06 PM PST
 FILE â€President Obama will nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell as White House budget chief.
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Violent start to Kenya vote: Police die in attack 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 10:38 PM PST
 Masaai women line up at dawn to vote in a general election in Kumpa, Kenya, Monday, March 4, 2013. Five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans went to the polls on Monday to begin casting votes in a nationwide election seen as the country's most important - and complicated - in its 50-year history. (AP Photo/Riccardo Gangale)A pre-dawn attack killed several officers hours before Kenyans began casting votes.
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Snow kills 8 in Japan, including family in car 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 10:43 PM PST
 Stranded vehicles are buried under snow along a road in Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido, northern Japan, Sunday, March 3, 2013. At least eight people were killed after their vehicles got trapped in heavy snow in Hokkaido over the weekend, local reports said. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEHeavy snow in northern Japan kills eight people, including a family whose car was buried.
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Netanyahu: Iran using nuclear talks to 'buy time' for bomb 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 06:20 PM PST
 Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a meeting of the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors in JerusalemRenewed efforts to negotiate curbs on Iran's nuclear program have backfired, Israel's PM said.
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Pakistani Shiites mourn as bomb death toll hits 45 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 10:52 PM PST
 Pakistanis check the site of a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013. Pakistani officials say a bomb blast has killed dozens of people in a neighborhood dominated by Shiite Muslims in the southern city of Karachi. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)Members of Pakistan's Shiite community were digging through the rubble of a massive car bombing.
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As Passover nears, a plague of locusts descends upon Egypt 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 08:06 PM PST
 Locusts swarm just three weeks before Passover. But put your apocalyptic fears to rest.
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Photos: 41st Iditarod sled race kicks off 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 03:05 PM PST
 Photos: 41st Iditarod sled race kicks offThe dog team of Mike Ellis round the corner at 4th Avenue and Cordova Street during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Saturday, March 2, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska. The competitive portion of the 1,000-mile race is scheduled to begin Sunday in Willow, Alaska. (AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth)
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Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann weighs return to ESPN 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 07:08 PM PST
 FILE - In this May 3, 2012 file photo, Keith Olbermann poses at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Current TV has dismissed Keith Olbermann from its talk-show lineup after less than a year, Friday, March 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)Former Current TV chief news officer and host Keith Olbermann is talking to the head honchos at ESPN, possibly about rejoining the sports news giant where he worked from 1992 to 1997. In fact, based on the details in a just published New York Times piece, the outspoken commentator has been  exploring the idea of returning to ESPN for quite a while now.
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One skier killed, another critically injured in Colorado avalanche 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 05:59 PM PST
 DENVER (Reuters) - A backcountry skier was killed and another critically injured in a weekend avalanche they apparently triggered on a northern Colorado mountain pass, a day after three other people died in snowslides across the country, authorities said on Sunday. The two men in Colorado were cross-country skiing Saturday on the western side of Cameron Pass, about 135 milesnorthwest of Denver, when they were buried in the avalanche, said Kent Minor, manager of State Forest State Park. ...
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Four policemen butchered as Kenyans queue in tense vote 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 10:48 PM PST
 A man casts his ballot at the Kisumu Central polling centre during the presidential and parliamentary elections in KisumuNAIROBI/MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyans stood patiently in long lines on Monday to elect a new president but machete-wielding youths on the coast killed four policemen, casting a shadow over a vote seen as vital to repairing Kenya's image after tribal bloodshed five years ago. A few hours before the 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) start of voting and with long queues formed across the nation before sunrise, four police officers on patrol in the Mombasa port city area were hacked to death by attackers, a senior police officer said. ...
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400 inmates fight at Arizona prison; 19 injured 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 06:48 PM PST
 TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) â€" An Arizona prison complex remains on lockdown after a fight broke out among 400 inmates.
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Car bomb kills 37, wounds 141 in southern Pakistan 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 01:34 PM PST
 A Pakistani man, who was injured in a bomb blast, is brought to a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013. Pakistani officials say a bomb blast has killed dozens of people in a neighborhood dominated by Shiite Muslims in the southern city of Karachi. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) â€" A car bomb exploded outside a mosque on Sunday, killing 37 people and wounding another 141 in a Shiite Muslim dominated neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi â€" the third mass casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this year.
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Supply ship meets space station after shaky start 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 03:22 PM PST
 This frame grab made available by NASA TV shows a view of the SpaceX Dragon capsule on the end of the International Space Station's robotic arm, Sunday, March 3, 2013. SpaceX, the California-based company founded by billionaire Elon Musk, had to struggle with the Dragon following its launch Friday from Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft is delivering more than 1 ton of supplies to the the International Space Station. (AP Photo/NASA TV)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) â€" A private Earth-to-orbit delivery service made good on its latest shipment to the International Space Station on Sunday, overcoming mechanical difficulty and delivering a ton of supplies with high-flying finesse.
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