Carter lands in North Korea to bring home American (AP)

AP - North Koreans welcomed Jimmy Carter back to Pyongyang with smiles, salutes and hearty handshakes Wednesday as the former American president arrived on a mission to bring home a Boston man jailed in the communist country since January.

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Wear wristwatch? Use e-mail? Not for Class of ‘14 (AP)

AP - For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums.

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Harvard regains spot atop U.S. News rankings (AP)

AP - Harvard pulled ahead of Ivy League rival Princeton in the latest edition of the influential U.S. News & World Report university rankings, while a stronger emphasis on graduation rates drove other changes in the Top 10.

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Report: Cancer is the world’s costliest disease (AP)

AP - Cancer is the world’s top “economic killer” as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report it will present at a global cancer conference in China this week.

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Asia flooding plunges millions into misery (AP)

AP - Floods and landslides across Asia plunged millions into misery Sunday as rubble-strewn waters killed at least 127 in northwestern China and 4 million Pakistanis faced food shortages amid their country’s worst-ever flooding.

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17 dead, 44 missing as landslides hit China towns (AP)

AP - Landslides slammed into three mountain hamlets in western China early Tuesday, killing 17 people and leaving 44 missing, while crews drained a fast-rising reservoir in another part of the country following heavy rains.

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Thousands of Taiwanese protest China trade pact (AP)

AP - Tens of thousands of opposition supporters chanted anti-communist slogans as they marched in Taiwan’s capital Saturday to protest a planned trade agreement with rival China that they say will undermine the island’s self-rule and harm its economy.

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Giant gold coin sold for $4 million (AP)

AP - The world’s largest gold coin has been sold at auction in Austria for euro3.27 million ($4 million).

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Newly rescued Chihuahua takes ‘ugliest dog’ title (AP)

AP - A Chihuahua’s oddly curved back and legs and closed-up left eye earned the 4-year-old rescue dog top honors at the World’s Ugliest Dog contest at a Northern California fair on Friday.

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Media: 46 dead in explosion in central China mine (AP)

AP - At least 46 miners were killed Monday when an explosion ripped through a coal mine in central China, state media reported.

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