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LEAD, S.D. – The Homestake Gold Mine is played out, but state officials think there’s billions of dollars worth of pay dirt left in its 8,000-feet-deep maze of shafts and tunnels. Cosmic pay dirt. South Dakota is trying to convince the National Science Foundation that the nation’s deepest mine, one …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A British military helicopter crashed in Basra on Saturday, and Iraqis hurled stones at British troops and set fire to three armored vehicles that rushed to the scene. Clashes broke out between British troops and Shiite militias, police and witnesses said. Police Capt. Mushtaq Khazim said the …

BEIJING – Work on a shooting range for the 2008 Beijing Olympics has been suspended after the discovery of imperial-era tombs on the site, newspapers and an antiquities official said Monday. The tombs, found in mid-April, are believed to date back five to six centuries to the Ming dynasty, and …