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WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has scheduled a vote Friday on a sprawling climate-change bill, signaling the Democratic leadership's confidence that it can overcome objections from Farm Belt Democrats.

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. -- Members of the 1345th Transportation Company of the Oklahoma Army National Guard are coming home this week after more than a year in Iraq. A three-and-a-half mile parade is planned to carry soldiers to Del City High School for a welcome home ceremony and reunion with family and friends starting at 7 p.m. Friday. The 1345th was activated in March 2006 and sent to Fort Bliss, Texas, for training, then to Kuwait before arriving in Iraq. The unit provided transportation on combat missions.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian hitchhiker, who stole an elderly man's car after he offered her a ride, died a few minutes later when she lost control of the vehicle and crashed into trees, police said. The crash happened near the town of Hawkesbury -- about 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Ottawa -- after the man stopped to pick up 20-year-old Mandy Deschambeault. "The male driver proceeded to step out of his vehicle momentarily at which point the female jumped in the driver seat, stealing the male person's car," local police said in a statement Monday. "She proceeded to...

Eduardo Lapi, former governor Yaracuy state - and prominent opponent of President Hugo Chavez - had been in detention since May last year.

A Saudi man held in US custody for five years has told a military hearing he was tortured into confessing a role in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, 41, said he had faced years of torture after his arrest in 2002, a Pentagon transcript from the closed-door hearing said.