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LONDON, (Reuters) – A donated human liver has been kept alive, warm and functioning outside a human being on a newly-developed machine and then successfully transplanted into patients in a medical world first.

OXON HILL, Md.,  (Reuters) – An event aimed at helping Republicans reach out to black voters devolved into arguments over race yesterday at an influential gathering of conservative activists, according to media reports.

(Reuters) – Karim Wade, son of a former Senegalese president, has been accused by prosecutors of amassing assets worth $1.4 billion and given one month to prove they were lawfully acquired or face corruption charges, Wade’s lawyer said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British police are investigating an estimated 600 new allegations of phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s now defunct News of the World newspaper, Britain’s Guardian newspaper said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced plans yesterday to bolster U.S.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans were on the streets again today at a funeral parade for Hugo Chavez amid opposition protests that the government was exploiting his death for election purposes.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis today urged leaders of a Roman Catholic Church riven by scandal and crisis never to give in to discouragement and bitterness but to keep their eyes on their true mission.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – There is increasing evidence that the war on drugs has failed, with criminalization often creating more problems than it solves, said Helen Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Program.

WASHINGTON  (Reuters) – Two former senior U.S. officials who handled Washington’s Latin America policy vigorously denied accusations by Venezuela’s acting President, Nicholas Maduro, that they were plotting to kill that country’s opposition leader.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron abruptly ended cross-party talks on regulating Britain’s famously aggressive newspapers on Thursday and tabled a vote on light-touch rules instead, prompting allegations he is in thrall to the press barons.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Honduran President Porfirio Lobo yesterday said he had complained to El Salvador and Nicaragua about the presence of “threatening” boats in a shared gulf that gives the nations access to the Pacific Ocean.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – The cardinals who elect the pope are sworn to secrecy about their deliberations, but details began to filter out on Thursday about how rank outsider Jorge Bergoglio quickly emerged as a frontrunner to replace Pope Benedict.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A ranking member of the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging yesterday rapped Jamaica for failing to do enough in fighting the lottery scam, arguing that the efforts to combat the scourge should be comparable with the country’s tourism marketing campaigns.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Analysis of the tracks of an elementary particle found in the Large Hadron Collider last year “strongly indicates” that it is the long-sought Higgs boson, the CERN physics research centre said today.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the troubled Roman Catholic Church today, the first non-European pontiff in nearly 1,300 years, and said he would take the name Francis I.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Cardinals in secret conclave failed twice this morning to elect a new pope, as black smoke over the Sistine Chapel showed ballots on the first full day of voting were inconclusive.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian police investigating the AgustaWestland bribery case raided homes and business premises in the New Delhi area and two other cities today after formally launching a probe into the helicopter firm and its parent company, Finmeccanica.

SRINAGAR, India, (Reuters) – Two militants disguised as cricketers opened fire with automatic rifles on a paramilitary camp on the Indian side of the disputed region of Kashmir today, killing five Indian personnel and wounding five, police said.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Cardinals begin the process of choosing a new pope in earnest today, holding their first full day of voting for a leader to face a major crisis in the Roman Catholic Church.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Tullow Oil colluded with Uganda to extract tax from its former exploration partner Heritage Oil in pursuit of its own commercial gain, Heritage plans to prove in London’s High Court this week.