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MOORE, Okla.,  (Reuters) – Rescuers went building to building in search of victims and thousands of survivors were homeless yesterday after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, wiping out whole blocks of homes and killing at least 24 people.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Apple’s ability to shelter billions of dollars of income from tax has depended on an unusual loophole in the Irish tax code that helps the country compete with other countries for investment and jobs.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – The trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt has likely collapsed after the country’s top court struck down his conviction for genocide, defense and prosecution lawyers said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Lois Lerner, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service official at the centre of a scandal about the targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny, plans to assert her constitutional right not to answer questions from a congressional committee today.

REDMOND, Wash.,  (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp unveiled the “Xbox One” yesterday, its first new gaming console in eight years, and its strongest push so far to dominate consumers’ living rooms with an array of exclusive media content.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A recording released by Venezuela’s opposition purportedly revealing graft and conspiracy in the ruling Socialist Party has stirred a new political storm in the OPEC nation’s already traumatic transition after the death of Hugo Chavez.

MOORE, Okla., (Reuters) – Emergency workers pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma town hit by a powerful tornado, and officials lowered the death toll from the storm to 24, including nine children.

MOORE, Okla., (Reuters) – Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and an hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged the president of Myanmar yesterday to take steps to halt violence against Muslims in his country and move ahead with economic and political reforms.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – High-tech systems for tracking the movements of immigrants and other foreigners when leaving the United States would be installed at major US airports under a plan approved by a congressional panel yesterday.

MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) – A massive tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore yesterday, killing at least 51 people as it tore up entire tracts of homes, two schools and a hospital, leaving a wake of tangled wreckage.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Armed groups in central Africa are using powerful weapons, some of which may be left over from the civil war in Libya, to kill elephants for their ivory, the United Nations said yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Some spectators at London’s Chelsea Flower Show wouldn’t be caught dead with one in the boot of their Bentley, but garden gnomes have turned up at the show’s 100th edition this year, for charity.

(Reuters) TULSA, Okla. – A huge tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore today, ripping up at least two schools and leaving a wake of tangled wreckage as a dangerous storm system threatened as many as 10 U.S.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – The top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper abruptly resigned yesterday over his role in an mounting expenses scandal which is threatening to undermine the Conservative government.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s justice minister yesterday accused an Indian High Commission official and some South Africans of colluding to obtain permission for a plane chartered by a rich family close to President Jacob Zuma to use an air force base to land.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain called upon its overseas territories to “get their house in order” over the sharing of tax information today as the UK looks to lead a global fight against tax evasion ahead of a meeting of the world’s wealthiest states.

(Reuters) – A single winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was bought.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Veteran rocker Rod Stewart scored his first British album chart number one in more than 30 years on Sunday with “Time”, while the French electro outfit Daft Punk clung to the top of the singles chart, the Official Charts Company said.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Connecticut commuters should brace for travel chaos tomorrow as Metro-North workers repair damage on the United States’ busiest rail line caused by the collision of two trains, officials warned today.