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[attach=full]20171[/attach] AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Rory McIlroy knows full well what he can accomplish this week at the Masters. So he decided to remain patient when he found himself over par through the first 11 holes. Continue reading...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A brief look at the first round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20170[/attach] AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Charley Hoffman considers himself quite the veteran of the Masters. Whenever he's not playing, this storied tournament is must-see TV for him. Continue reading...

AVONDALE, La. (AP) — IndyCar officials are requiring engine manufacturers Honda and Chevrolet to make structural upgrades before this weekend's Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20158[/attach] AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The sight of former champions playing way past their prime is a familiar one at Augusta National. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20157[/attach] Members of an expedition in which two Spaniards died rock climbing in Morocco accused Moroccan authorities on Thursday of letting the climbers perish by obstructing rescue efforts. "It was a murder committed by the Moroccan authorities with the consent of the Spanish government," said expedition member Juan Morilla. He spoke alongside Juan Bolivar, a 27-year-old policeman who spent days trapped in the ravine with the two victims, lawyer Gustavo Virues, 41 and another policeman, Jose Antonio Martinez, also 41. Continue reading...

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The Atlantic Ocean will see a "well below average" number of hurricanes this season due to cooler Caribbean waters and a strong El Nino effect, forecasters with Colorado State University predicted on Thursday. In an average year, the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico see 12 named tropical storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes during the six-month season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, the report said. Continue reading...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — For the first time in its history, European soccer's governing responded to a team's protests by unexpectedly ordering part of a match to be replayed because of a referee's error. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20156[/attach] SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Shiite rebels and allied troops overran the capital of an oil-rich Yemeni province in a heavily Sunni area on Thursday, making significant territorial gains despite Saudi-led airstrikes, now entering their third week. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20143[/attach] HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — When the country's censors blacked out scenes from the film adaptation of the bestselling erotic novel, "Fifty Shades of Grey," many Zimbabwean movie lovers couldn't care less. They soon had another option, which was more explicit and cheaper. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20142[/attach] A Dutchman freed from captivity in Mali by French soldiers this week described his struggle to remain mentally and physically well during the three and a half years he spent sleeping outside in the desert as an Al Qaeda hostage. In his first statement since being freed on Monday, Sjaak Rijke said the years of captivity had been difficult although he had mostly been well treated by his captors. "The past years have been tough, both physically and mentally," he said in a statement issued via the Dutch foreign ministry on Thursday in which he asked for privacy as he and his family recovered from the ordeal. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20141[/attach] MILAN (AP) — A man on trial for fraudulent bankruptcy opened fire in Milan's courthouse Thursday in a "cold, premeditated" spree, killing his lawyer, a co-defendant and a judge before being captured nearly 25 kilometers away as he fled on a motorbike, officials said. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20140[/attach] NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks edged lower Thursday as investors assessed some mixed news on company earnings. Energy stocks rose as oil recouped some of its losses from a big sell-off on Wednesday. Continue reading...

An Egyptian court sentenced a former provincial governor to four years in jail, judicial sources said on Thursday, for violating a law used to jail hundreds of Islamist and secular activists in the last 18 months. Hassan El-Nagar, a former judge, was appointed governor of the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya in 2012 by Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, who was ousted by the army in mid-2013 following protests. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20133[/attach] NEW DELHI (AP) — India's top court on Thursday granted an Italian marine's request to extend his medical leave in Italy before he and a fellow marine face charges over the 2012 shooting of two Indian fishermen. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20132[/attach] TOKYO (AP) — The last time the United States tried the military option on North Korea, more than a million died, a hostile and unexpectedly resilient adversary emerged and instead of regime change it got three generations of the Kim family. Understandably, there is little appetite in Washington to try that again. But if sending in the Marines is off the table, what's an administration to do? Continue reading...

[attach=full]20131[/attach] Kiev (AFP) - The Ukraine parliament on Thursday voted to ban all "propaganda by the totalitarian Communist and Nazi regimes". Continue reading...

GROZNY, Russia (AP) — A U.S. jury found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of the Boston Marathon bombing, and his own lawyer admitted it in court, but a relative said Thursday that she remains convinced that he and his now-dead elder brother had no reason to carry out such a terrorist attack. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20130[/attach] BEIRUT (AP) — A senior Palestinian official said Thursday that an agreement has been reached with the Syrian government to use military force to expel Islamic State militants from an embattled Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20121[/attach] Oil prices rose more than a percent on Thursday, clawing back part of the 6 percent slump in the previous session that was triggered by a shock jump in U.S. crude inventories and record Saudi output, although analysts said sentiment remained bearish. A 10.95 million-barrel surge in U.S. crude stockpiles to 482.4 million last week, the biggest gain in 14 years, and Saudi oil production of 10.3 million barrels a day in March had battered crude futures on Wednesday. "Total U.S. crude stocks continued to fly far above 5-year highs, setting new records every week," Societe Generale analysts said in a note. Cushing, the delivery point for West Texas Intermediate contracts, is now filled to 85 percent of its total working capacity of 70.1 million barrels, the bank said. Continue reading...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's Cumhuriyet newspaper says two of its journalists have been charged with "openly insulting the people's religious values" for featuring French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's cover with the image of the Prophet Muhammad in their columns. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20120[/attach] SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has deported an American woman who frequently visited the country over the past 20 years, accusing her of engaging in "plot-breeding and propaganda." Continue reading...

[attach=full]20119[/attach] A man who recorded chilling video of a white police officer gunning down a black man said that the shooting followed a struggle in which the cop had gained control of the situation. The now widely-distributed video of South Carolina officer Michael Slager shooting Walter Scott repeatedly in the back was recorded by 23-year-old Feidin Santana. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20118[/attach] A Japanese research team said on Thursday it had developed a field test for Ebola that gives results in just over 11 minutes -- down from the 90-minute test used now. The breakthrough by Nagasaki University's Institute of Tropical Medicine will allow medics to move much more quickly in treating people with the haemorrhagic fever, Professor Jiro Yasuda told AFP. The test hinges on what the researchers have called a "primer", a substance that amplifies only those genes specific to the Ebola virus found in a blood sample or other bodily fluid. Currently, a method called polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, is used to detect the Ebola virus. Continue reading...

[attach=full]20111[/attach] CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Eugenie Bouchard knew she was pointed to bigger things at the Family Circle Cup last spring. After the top-seeded Bouchard fell to unseeded American Lauren Davis in her opening match this time around, the Canadian star isn't sure where she's heading. Continue reading...