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MOSCOW – When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon, it was a first for the Soviet Union — the first time the U.S. had beaten the U.S.S.R in the space race. Forty years later, the memory of that loss of primacy still seems to sting the Russian …

LONDON – A scientific journal has retracted a controversial paper claiming to have created the first human sperm from embryonic stem cells. The journal’s editor told the science publication Nature that the study by scientists at Britain’s Newcastle University was retracted because two paragraphs in its introduction had been plagiarized. …

LISBON, Portugal – A fugitive murderer spent 16 years hiding in caves around his home village in northern Portugal before he was recaptured looking “like Robinson Crusoe,” police said Thursday. Manuel Cruz, 54, had a deep tan and a long beard when he was arrested in the forested hills where …

Miley Cyrus dumped Justin Gaston after realizing she was “never truly over” her ex, Nick Jonas, an inside source told FOXNews.com. Almost immediately after reuniting professionally with Nick, teen queen Miley dumped Justin by explaining her love for all things Jonas, according to an inside source. The rekindled romance between …

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Mexican officials say gunmen killed five bar patrons in drug-plagued Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. The Chihuahua state prosecutor’s spokesman Vladimir Tuexi says police Friday found the bodies in the Amsterdam bar, in a zone popular with U.S. tourists. Elsewhere, the Defense …

BAGHDAD – Up to 30 percent of the Sunni paramilitaries involved in last weekend’s uprising in central Baghdad escaped with their weapons, an Iraqi police officer said Wednesday. The rest of the estimated 250 members of the Awakening Council in the Fadhil area handed over their weapons to Iraqi soldiers …

A British agent left top secret information about covert operations on a bus in South America when she lost her handbag while on assignment. The drugs liaison officer lost a computer memory stick said to contain a list of undercover agents’ names and details with more than five years of …

A Japanese airline has launched a new initiative to help reduce carbon emissions: Have passengers use the bathroom before boarding. All Nippon Airways said empty bladders means lighter passengers, which means less fuel needed to transport them, the Daily Mail reported. The airline reportedly has placed staff at boarding gates …

OAKLAND, Calif. – A judge ruled Thursday that a former transit police officer should stand trial on murder charges in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man on a train platform. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Don Clay said there was sufficient evidence for ex-Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer …

KABUL – International troops and Afghan police seized 250 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer — enough to make up to a couple hundred roadside bombs, the Taliban’s most lethal weapon in what has been the deadliest year of the war, NATO announced Tuesday. Separately, video footage emerged of insurgents brandishing …