Police found five people, including two children, shot to death Sunday night in a townhouse in Santa Clara, California.
Five found shot dead in California home
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Mad cow expert may have died from disease
A Spanish pathologist who specialized in a human strain of "mad cow" disease has died, and officials said Sunday they suspect the disease played a role in his death.
Turkish vote tests Erdogan’s mandate
Turkey was Sunday voting in local elections widely seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Rece Tayyip Erdogan, whose challenges the country’s strict secular system have pitted him against the military and judiciary. Polls show Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, or AK Party, in power since 2002, is once again likely to win more than 40 percent of votes in the mainly Muslim country. More than 90,000 positions are up for grabs, from the mayor of Turkey’s largest city Istanbul to the headman of the smallest village.
2 NATO-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Two NATO-led soldiers were killed on Sunday in southern Afghanistan, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said.
Indian Premier League moved outside India
Next month’s Indian Premier League cricket tournament will be played outside India because of election security concerns, sport officials said Sunday.
Airliner evacuated at London airport
Explosives experts are searching an Emirates airliner at London’s Gatwick Airport following a report of a "suspicious device" on board, police told CNN on Sunday.
China detains dozens after riot
Authorities detained 95 people — all but two of them monks — after a crowd of more than 100 people attacked a police station in western China, state media said Sunday.
Girl, 11, feared taken by crocodile
A girl who went missing while swimming in northern Australia on Sunday may have been taken by a crocodile, police said.
AIG names recipients of its bailout money
Troubled insurance giant AIG, already under fire for intending to pay out $165 million in bonuses and compensation, succumbed Sunday to congressional pressure, identifying banks that received chunks of the company’s billions in federal bailout funds last year. AIG, a recipient of at least $170 billion in federal bailout money , got an $85 billion loan from the Federal Reserve. The list released Sunday of “counterparties” that benefited from the bailout is topped by European banks Societe Generale and Deutsche Bank, which received $4.1 billion and $2.6 billion, respectively.
Explosives kill NATO troops in Afghanistan
Four soldiers with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed by an improvised explosive device Sunday, according to a military statement.