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'); document.write(''); document.write('AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) — A few miles off the main highway, on a remote hilltop covered with waist-high grass, bodies lay with twisted hands reaching in the air. They had been shot point-blank.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BEIJING (AP) — China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula — severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest one of the country\'s worst food safety crises.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BRUSSELS (AP) — Helped by a therapist, Rom Houben\'s outstretched finger tapped with surprising speed on a computer touchscreen, spelling out how he felt \"alone, lonely, frustrated\" in the 23 years he was trapped inside a paralyzed body.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('SHINKAY, Afghanistan (AP) — A battered taxi sped up a dusty road toward a squad of Afghan soldiers searching for bombs planted in the dirt. Army gunmen who had fanned out for protection readied for a suicide attacker. The car screeched to a halt.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — French officers on Tuesday showed off a cutting-edge warship to a potential buyer — the Russian navy, whose pursuit of an amphibious assault capacity is frightening some neighboring countries.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BARIYAPUR, Nepal (AP) — The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn Tuesday. Then it shifted to a nearby corral, where in the cold morning mist, scores of butchers wielding curved swords began slaughtering buffalo calves by hacking off their heads.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('GENEVA (AP) — The world\'s largest atom smasher used its accelerator Tuesday to speed up proton beams for the first time as scientists moved ahead in efforts to learn more about the universe.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Visitors to South Africa\'s premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country\'s high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — At the top of the list of Palestinian prisoners likely to be freed in a possible swap for an Israeli soldier is a firebrand politician many Palestinians believe is a likely future president who can pull them out of their current political deadlock.
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