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Officials in Tuscaloosa, Alabama - one of the hardest hit areas by severe thunderstorms and tornadoes on Wednesday - are bringing in cadaver dogs for search and rescue operations amid large piles of debris from damaged and destroyed structures.

A dissident IRA group, called “Oglaigh na hEireann” or “Real IRA” has warned that the Queen is not welcome on Irish soil and is branding her a “war criminal.”

By releasing his birth certificate, President Obama hoped to put an end to the ‘birther’ controversy once and for all and perhaps embarrass ‘birthers’ like Donald Trump. What he did instead was provide more fuel to the fire and further damage his 2012 presidential campaign.

Here are the top ten royals in line to be the next ruling British monarch, upon the death or retirement of Queen Elizabeth II:

The country’s sports minister Chantal Jouanno, has asked French Football Federation (FFF) to explain reports that clubs have had a secret racial quota on teams in order to limit the number of black and Arab players.

The U.S. embassy in Cairo has resumed normal operations on Friday, citing improvement just over three months after massive protests developed into a revolution which toppled President Hosni Mubarak and left nearly 850 people dead.

Donald Trump appeared at a rally in Las Vegas where he was treated like royalty and delivered a profanity-laden speech that decried politicians, particularly President Barack Obama.

The Syrian government has deployed troops on the streets of the capital Damascus with tear gas to stamp out yet another round of anti-regime protests, according to reports.

President Barack Obama - who will tour an area in Alabama devastated by fierce and deadly storms on Friday - signed a major disaster declaration for Alabama on Thursday, a move which authorizes federal funds for the state to deal with the aftermath of deadly storms that have killed 305 people.

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On Thursday, April 29, 2011, the IAEA provided the following information on the current status of nuclear safety in Japan:

Queen Elizabeth of England has conferred a new title to her grandson at the occasion of his wedding on Friday.

More high profile defections from the Baath Party over the last two days have weakened Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad even as the world is keenly watching how the opposition’s planned ‘day of rage’ will unfold today.

Microsoft said late Thursday that the company's third-quarter earnings rose 31 percent increase, propped up by the company's entertainment division, but saw weakness in its core businesses.

More than 1 million customers are without electricity in Southern states on Thursday in the wake of devastating storms with tornadoes which have officially killed 305 people, mostly in Alabama.

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The death toll in the South continued to rise to nearly 300 Thursday evening after massive storms with tornadoes ripped through the region a day earlier and first responders continued to search for survivors, with about two-thirds of the victims coming from Alabama.

Rev. Franklin Graham's comments on President Barack Obama's birth certificate, views on presidential politics and his charge that the Muslim Brotherhood has influence in U.S. State Department and military have come into the spotlight this week.

‘Birther’ netizens are already calling Obama’s birth certificate fake.

The take away from Bernanke's comments yesterday should allay any fears that the Federal Reserve will be lifting interest rates any time soon.

The unification of former Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas has left Israel feeling very uneasy.

A suicide bomber has killed at least ten people and injured at least thirty in the town of Baladruz in eastern Iraq, near the Iranian border, according to various media reports.

There is a whole book coming out next month that claims to establish the constitutional ineligibility of Barack Obama for the office of the US presidency.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has shut down its undamaged Browns Ferry nuclear power plant in northern Alabama, cooling its reactors after power transmission lines into the plant were knocked out by severe storms in the state.

The daughter of a murdered Pakistani politician has vowed to continue her father’s campaign to eliminate the abuse of the country’s blasphemy laws.

Congress members slammed Apple after the company released its official response to revelations that its devices are tracking user movements.

Alabama officials have declared an emergency at a nuclear power plant in the northern part of the state and have started shutting it down in the aftermath of severe storms and tornadoes that have pounded the state.

A deadly blast at a tourist café in Marrakesh, Morocco has killed at least 14 people and wounded about twenty others, according to media reports.

The Syrian ambassador to Britain has had his invitation to tomorrow’s Royal Wedding withdrawn after his potential presence sparked outrage among some quarters.