May 22, 2013

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Prize Winning Horse Saved From Slaughter

This great-great-grandson of the legendary Secretariat had won nearly $200,000 in prize money at tracks around Southern California. It had been a modestly successful racing career, but by December of last year it was over.

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Helicopter Crash Claims Life Of Kenyan Minister

A helicopter crashed in the outskirts of Nairobi on Sunday, killing the Kenyan internal security minister -- a man who once served as vice president and was a presidential contender in an upcoming election.

China Launching Manned Spacecraft

China plans to launch a manned spacecraft this month to dock with a space lab that has been orbiting the Earth since September, state media reported Saturday

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UN Team Enters Site of Syrian Massacre

At least 40 people were killed in Friday's violence. Activists say they showed U.N. monitors burned houses and victims' graves. China condemns the violence in strong terms.

Syria Activists: Boy, 9, Shot In Head By Sniper

Syrian opposition activists tell CBS News a nine-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head by a sniper as he took part in a small protest against President Bashar Assad's government in the southern city of Daraa on Friday.

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Cameron Leveson Inquiry

British Prime Minister David Cameron is one of several high-profile current and former government figures who will be grilled next week at an independent inquiry into media ethics, it was reported Friday.

. Pakistan Blast

A bus explosion killed 16 people and injured dozens in northwest Pakistan on Friday, authorities said.

Somalia Al Shabaab Bounties

The United States is offering millions of dollars for the whereabouts of seven key members of the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based terror group behind bombings and attacks in the region.

Somalia Al Shabaab Bounties

The United States is offering millions of dollars for the whereabouts of seven key members of the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based terror group behind bombings and attacks in the region.

Cameron Leveson Inquiry

British Prime Minister David Cameron is one of several high-profile current and former government figures who will be grilled next week at an independent inquiry into media ethics, it was reported Friday.

South Korea Gambling Monks

The chief of South Korea's biggest Buddhist order says he will hand over a temple's financial management to experts after monks were caught gambling illegally.

Iran Nuclear Talks

China's President Hu Jintao urged Iran to take a "flexible and pragmatic" approach as it enters talks on its nuclear program Friday with the U.N. nuclear watchdog in Vienna, China's foreign ministry said.

Canada Body Parts Investigation

Los Angeles police are looking into a possible connection between a Canadian porn actor suspected in the mutilation of a university student and the killing of a California man who was also dismembered in the same grisly manner.

Italy Bomb Suspect

A man has confessed to planting a bomb that killed a 16-year-old girl and injured five other people outside a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi, investigators in Italy said.

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