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A wave of bombings struck outdoor markets and a restaurant in Shiite-dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, officials said - the latest in a string of attacks in and around the Iraqi capital that have left more than 200 dead in the past week.

As it struggles to match the success of its big-screen iPhones, Apple is now contending that small can be beautiful, too.

South Korea today reported the country's first case of the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease that has been linked to birth defects and other health issues.

A gunman who killed four people in rural Washington state called an officer he previously encountered to say he shot his family, leading to an hourslong standoff at a home Friday that ended with his suicide, authorities said.

Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13's "successful failure" and later devoted his life to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens, has died in Florida. He was 85.

The chief monetary authority for the 19 countries that use the euro currency left its key interest rates untouched after its meeting on Thursday, and did not ramp up its existing 1.5 trillion euro ($1.64 trillion) monetary stimulus program.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called Monday for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," an idea that prompted one of his rivals to call him "unhinged."

Forget the French fries. How about a side of yuca with that Big Mac? More than 100 McDonald's franchises have run out of potatoes.

A wave of bombings struck outdoor markets and a restaurant in Shiite-dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, officials said - the latest in a string of attacks in and around the Iraqi capital that have left more than 200 dead in the past week.

As it struggles to match the success of its big-screen iPhones, Apple is now contending that small can be beautiful, too.

South Korea today reported the country's first case of the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease that has been linked to birth defects and other health issues.

A gunman who killed four people in rural Washington state called an officer he previously encountered to say he shot his family, leading to an hourslong standoff at a home Friday that ended with his suicide, authorities said.

Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13's "successful failure" and later devoted his life to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens, has died in Florida. He was 85.

The chief monetary authority for the 19 countries that use the euro currency left its key interest rates untouched after its meeting on Thursday, and did not ramp up its existing 1.5 trillion euro ($1.64 trillion) monetary stimulus program.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called Monday for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," an idea that prompted one of his rivals to call him "unhinged."

Forget the French fries. How about a side of yuca with that Big Mac? More than 100 McDonald's franchises have run out of potatoes.