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Five people have died after a series of vicious tornadoes raked across Alabama and Georgia overnight. Hundreds of homes were destroyed.

A serial killer is on the loose in Norway, leaving his victims with mysterious, star-shaped, red marks on their bodies. It's up to hard-drinking, crime-fighting detective Harry Hole to track down the murderer in novelist Jo Nesbo's Scandinavian thriller.

Prisoners in Connecticut wouldn't have to pay to make phone calls under a proposed law. They now pay some of the highest phone rates in the country.

Black Friday sales for Apple's iPad were up 70 percent from last year, and the newly introduced Kindle Fire has shot to the top of Amazon's sales charts. And with more than 30 different tablets on the market at varying prices this holiday season, the barrier to entry to the tablet market has been considerably lowered.

South Africa's major cities are seeing a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant.

A major fire in New York City that began Sunday morning injured scores of people and has claimed the lives of at least 19, including nine children, officials say.

Shot Sage Blue Marilyn has always been one of the late artist Andy Warhol's most famous pieces. Now, it's the most expensive.

The crisis in Ukraine is causing more food insecurity for people in Afghanistan, who are already going hungry in a country roiled by conflict, drought, pandemic and a freeze on national assets.

In the latest Politically Speaking column, Senior Correspondent Juan Williams says President Bush will aim his convention message squarely at American pocketbooks.

Wade Page, who police say killed six people in a Sikh temple on Sunday, had long been on the radar of groups that track white supremacists. But you can't be arrested for hateful thoughts. And observers say finding the real threats has gotten harder for police with the rise of the Internet.