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APTOPIX Britain Tough Guy
A competitor emerges from a water obstacle at the annual Tough Guy event, Perton, England, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Tough Guy claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal. First staged in 1986, it has been widely described as "the toughest race in the world", with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year.(AP Photo/Jon Super)
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RFK Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary, found dead in NY (Photo Gallery)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead in her home Wednesday.
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GI killed in Cambodia awarded Medal of Honor (Photo Gallery)
President Barack Obama has awarded an Army soldier the Medal of Honor 42 years after the rifleman was killed during a Vietnam-era clash in Cambodia.
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Ruling: Boy can stay on girls field hockey team (Photo Gallery)
An athletics committee on Long Island has ruled that a 13-year-old boy can keep playing field hockey on the girls' team at Southampton High School.
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Photos: A look inside North Korea's mass spectacles (Photo Gallery)
For the people of Pyongyang, they are simply a part of life. Residency is tightly restricted for the capital city, where life is far easier than it is for most North Koreans, who live with staggering rates of poverty and malnutrition.
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Mexico drug war's latest toll: 49 headless bodies (Photo Gallery) (Video)
Police found 49 mutilated bodies scattered in a pool of blood near the border with the U.S., a region where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes.
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Sagan brings 16 second lead in Tour of California to Bakersfield (Photo Gallery)
Slovakia's Peter Sagan of Slovakia raced to his event-opening fourth straight stage victory in the Tour of California on Wednesday to increase his overall lead to 16 seconds.
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Tour of California hits town Thursday (Photo Gallery) (Video)
The riders of the Tour of California race against the clock Thursday in Bakersfield, host to the fifth stage of North America's most prominent professional bike race.
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Photos: On the red carpet at Cannes (Photo Gallery)
Diane Kruger must have arrived in France with a lot of luggage. On Wednesday, Day 1 of the 12-day Cannes Film Festival, Kruger, a member of the prestigious jury, turned up in two different outfits.
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Zoo-like Cannes opens with 'Moonrise' (Photo Gallery)
The sunbaked Cannes Film Festival got under way with Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," whose carefully composed whimsy stood in stark contrast to the zoo-like atmosphere at the annual French Riviera extravaganza.