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The Vatican says the woman who jumped the barricade and toppled Pope Benedict XVI to the floor during Christmas Eve Mass is the same one who tried to reach him at Midnight Mass last year
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Long press-shy, but now emerging as an author of a self-published novel, Barack Obama's half brother Mark speaks to TIME's Ling Woo Liu
A record amount of rainfall over a 24-hour period in England sees hundreds of people evacuated.
A year after coordinated terrorist attacks paralyzed Mumbai, India, the city is slowly finding its way back to normal
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