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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)A baby born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, 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.
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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 international efforts to negotiate curbs on Iran's disputed nuclear program have backfired by giving it more time to work on building a bomb, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. His remarks on the inconclusive February 26-27 meeting between Iran and six world powers signaled impatience by Israel, which has threatened to launch preemptive war on its arch-foe, possibly in the coming months, if it deems diplomacy a dead end. Senior U.S. ...
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Queen hospitalized over stomach illness 
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)Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was hospitalized Sunday over an apparent stomach infection that has ailed her for days, a rare instance of ill health sidelining the long-reigning monarch. Elizabeth will have to cancel a visit to Rome and other engagements as she recovers, and outside experts said she may have to be rehydrated intravenously.
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Snow kills 8 in Japan, including family in car 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 07:39 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 that fell in northern Japan over the weekend killed eight people on Hokkaido island, including a family whose car became buried.
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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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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 commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts to diminish the impact of African-Americans' votes haven't stopped in the years since the 1965 Voting Rights Act added millions to Southern voter rolls.
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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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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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Violent start in Kenyan election; police killed 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 07:08 PM PST
 Daniel, 22, ties furniture to the roof of his car as he prepares to leave his house in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, March 3, 2013 and head to his family's home in the countryside. Five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans go 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/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) â€" Five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans on Monday began casting votes in a nationwide election seen as the country's most important â€" and complicated â€" in its 50-year history.
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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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Papal vote preparations start in earnest at Vatican 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 03:28 PM PST
 A statue is silhouetted in Saint Peter's Square at the VaticanVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Preparations for electing Roman Catholicism's new leader begin in earnest on Monday as the College of Cardinals opens daily talks to sketch an identikit for the next pope and ponder who among them might fit it. The idea is to have the new pope elected during next week and officially installed several days later so he can preside over the Holy Week ceremonies starting with Palm Sunday on March 24 and culminating in Easter the following Sunday. ...
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Bobby Rogers, founder of Motown group The Miracles, dies 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 04:21 PM PST
 FILE - In this March 20, 2009 file photo, members of the Motown group The Miracles, from left: William "Smokey" Robinson, Warren "Pete" Moore, Claudette Robinson, and Robert "Bobby" Rogers, are honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Rogers, a founding member of the group and a collaborator with Smokey, has died. Motown Museum board member Allen Rawls said Rogers died Sunday, March 3, 2013, at his home. He was 73. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) â€" Bobby Rogers, a founding member of Motown group The Miracles and a songwriting collaborator with Smokey Robinson, died Sunday at his suburban Detroit home. He was 73.
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Power failure blamed in New Orleans water issues 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 05:03 PM PST
 New Orleans resident Isabel Medina stocks up on bottled water at the Winn Dixie Supermarket on Tchoupitoulas Street due to a boil water advisory after water pressure dipped below 15 PSI on the east bank of Orleans Parish at the Orleans Parish Sewerage & Water Board in New Orleans , La., Sunday, March 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Hinton)NEW ORLEANS (AP) â€" Taps in New Orleans briefly went dry Sunday after a boiler's heating flame went out of control in the immense steam generator that powers pumps for the city's water treatment plant.
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Accused Scottish cardinal admits sexual failings 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 12:58 PM PST
 FILE - A Thursday Sept. 16, 2010 photo from files showing Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien speaking to the media in Edinburgh, Scotland. Cardinal O'Brien resigned Monday Feb 25, 2013 due to allegations of misconduct. (AP Photo/Scott Campbell, File)LONDON (AP) â€" A Scottish cardinal on Sunday acknowledged having engaged in unspecified sexual misbehavior, apologized for his actions, and promised to stay out of the church's public life in a statement that comes at an awkward time for the Vatican.
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Kerry says U.S. releasing millions in aid to Egypt 
Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 11:32 AM PST
 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt on Sunday, March 3, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Egypt's president Sunday, wrapping up a visit to the deeply divided country with an appeal for unity and reform. The U.S. is deeply concerned that continued instability in Egypt will have broader consequences in a region already rocked by unrest. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)CAIRO (AP) â€" U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for President Mohammed Morsi's pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250 million in American aid to support the country's "future as a democracy."
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