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A complete list of nominations for the 62nd annual Tony Awards: Play (and playwrights): “August: Osage County” (Tracy Letts), “Rock ‘n’ Roll” (Tom Stoppard), “The Seafarer” (Conor McPherson), “The 39 Steps” (Patrick Barlow). Musical: “Cry-Baby,” “In the Heights,” “Passing Strange,” “Xanadu.” Book-Musical: “Cry-Baby” (Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan), “In the …

TIRANA, Albania – Israeli historians are visiting Albania to study how the country rescued its tiny Jewish population from the Holocaust. The Israeli experts are attending a conference in Albania’s capital Tirana, and are being joined by historians from Germany, Italy and Albania. Some 1,200 Jewish residents and refugees from …

MELBOURNE, Australia – Australian fishermen have hauled up a 20-foot-long giant squid off the country’s southeastern coast. Skipper Rangi Pene said Monday that the 500-pound squid was already dead when it was caught in a trawler’s nets Sunday night in waters more than 1,640 feet deep. Paul McCoy, a fisheries …

DAISETTA, Texas – A company that sits near the edge of a massive sinkhole in Southeast Texas has been accused of violating permits for disposal of saltwater, which some geologists suggest may have caused the crater. Officials with the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates such permits, stressed Friday that the …

WASHINGTON – Congress enacted a massive election-year farm bill Thursday over President Bush’s veto, sending new and bigger subsidies for farmers and more food stamps to help the poor with rising grocery prices. The 82-13 vote in the Senate following a 316-108 vote Wednesday night in the House provided Democrats …

Are you settling? Lots of lovers are. Whether going into a relationship or rotting in one, many are disregarding the power of passion in their union. Many are resigning themselves to a life without romance, saying “science says it should be so” as justification for a lack of effort. Yet …

KENANSVILLE, N.C. – A man who spent 15 years on death row was released from prison Friday after prosecutors dropped all charges less than two weeks before his scheduled retrial. Levon “Bo” Jones greeted family with a wide smile and outstretched arms as he walked out of Duplin County Jail. …

GENEVA – The storm warnings issued by Burma, renamed Myanmar by the ruling military junta, to alert its population about Cyclone Nargis were sufficient and heavy loss of life was inevitable, the U.N. weather agency said Wednesday. Even rich countries would have struggled to cope with the type of storm …

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – A strong earthquake shook southern Iceland on Thursday, injuring at least 15 people as it rocked buildings in the capital, touched off landslides and forced evacuations in outlying towns, officials and local media said. Government officials reported that 15 to 30 people were injured, none of the …

BERLIN – A trio of packaged pythons has caused a scare at a German post office. Police in Darmstadt said Friday that the snakes were stuffed into a parcel that was handed in for mailing to eastern Germany. It contained two tiger pythons and an albino tiger python of more …