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NEW ORLEANS (AP):More than a decade ago, Ray Nagin was elected mayor of New Orleans on a vow to root out corruption in a city plagued by decades of it.

Those airport scanners with their all-too-revealing body images will soon be going away.

The charges against Nagin are the result of a City Hall corruption probe that has already seen guilty pleas by two former city officials and two businessmen and a prison sentence for a vendor

JAKARTA (AP): Indonesia's army de-ployed rubber boats in the capital's business district yesterday to rescue people trapped in floods that inundated much of the city of 14 million people...

WASHINGTON (AP): THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $4.3-billion loan instalment to Greece, following an economic review.

WASHINGTON (AP):Braced for a fight, President Barack Obama yesterday unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades, pressing a reluctant Congress to pass universal background checks and bans on military-style assault weapons and...

NEWTOWN (AP): Parents of children slain in the Connecticut school massacre called for a national dialogue to help prevent similar tragedies as New York moved to become the first to state to pass stricter gun-control laws and politicians worked to confront gun violence.

MIAMI (CMC):A Miami-based group spearheading an initiative to exonerate Jamaican Marcus Garvey has expanded its online petition to the US House of Representatives.The Coalition for the Exoneration of Marcus Garvey, Jamaica's first national hero, said it...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):Supporters of ailing President Hugo Chávez held rallies across Venezuela yesterday and defended a controversial court ruling allowing the indefinite postponement of the socialist leader's inauguration.

WASHINGTON (AP): President Barack Obama's second inauguration is shaping up as a high-energy celebration smaller than his first milestone swearing-in, yet still designed to mark his unprecedented role in American history with plenty of eye-catching glamour.

BEIRUT (AP): SSyrian fighter jets yesterday bombed Damascus suburbs in a government offensive to dislodge rebels from strategic areas around the capital, activists said, as clashes raged around army bases and airfields in the country's north.

NEW DELHI (AP):Police badly beat the five suspects arrested in the brutal gang rape and killing of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, the lawyer for one of the men said on Thursday, accusing authorities of tampering with evidence in the case that has...