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PACHUCA, Mexico – A running battle between police and gunmen has left 12 people dead in this central Mexican city, officials said Friday. The dead included three police officers and nine gunmen, said Hidalgo state Attorney General Jose Alberto Rodriguez. Two state police officers and one city officer remained hospitalized …

LONDON – A British auction house says a signed copy of Adolf Hitler’s infamous manifesto “Mein Kampf” has fetched 21,000 pounds ($34,900). Mullock’s Auctioneers in Ludlow, in western England, says the semi-autobiographical book was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder Thursday. The say the book is a prepublication copy given …

Roughly 56 percent of potentially deadly melanoma skin cancers are found not by patients but through full-body skin examinations conducted by a dermatologist, new research shows. Skin cancers detected by dermatologists were thinner and more likely to be only on the outer layer of skin than were cancers detected by …