A massive car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad Thursday morning, killing at least seven people and wounding 52, hospital officials said. Two U.S. soldiers died in a gun battle in another part of the Iraqi capital.

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian kittens are in mortal danger from pet snakes for whom a rat just doesn't seem filling enough. A reptile expert said on Wednesday that cat owners, who hoped kittens they had to give away would go to a good home, were outraged to find that some were ending up as dinner for pythons and other snakes kept illegally as pets.

Italian scientists said Wednesday they had created the world's first cloned horse from an adult cell taken from the horse who gave birth to her.

Russia on Thursday threw its weight behind a French call for a new United Nations resolution on post-war Iraq, saying such a move would help secure greater international support for efforts to rebuild the country.

North Korea said on Thursday annual joint war exercises between the United States and South Korea raised doubts as to whether Washington would soften its hostility toward the communist state ahead of key diplomatic talks.

Security has been stepped up in the Indonesian capital Jakarta after a car-bomb ripped through an American-run hotel, killing 16 people and injuring 150 others.

Worried police are searching for a naked rambler who has been enjoying the sights along a famous British walking trail wearing only a floppy hat and a pair of hiking boots, the Times newspaper reported Tuesday.

Mars is getting ready for its close-up, with the red planet coming as near to Earth this month as it has in almost 60,000 years.

A clergyman seeking to become the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church was cleared Tuesday of the 11th-hour misconduct allegations that threatened his chances of being confirmed.

A top aide to British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized on Tuesday for comparing the dead Iraq weapons inspector at the center of his government's worst political crisis to a fictional fantasist.

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