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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – A young male hippopotamus has made a new home in a sewage plant, South African wildlife officials said Thursday. The nearly 1,800-pound hippo wandered into Cape Town’s Cape Flats Waste Water Treatment plant from an adjacent marsh after a fence was stolen, said Julia Wood, manager …

PARIS – French prosecutors say the manslaughter trial of Continental Airlines and five people over the 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people will begin outside Paris next year. They said Monday the trial is set to open Feb. 2, 2010, in the Paris suburb of Pontoise, …

NEW YORK – Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp. sold more cars and trucks last year than General Motors Corp., stripping the Detroit automaker of the No. 1 global sales crown. But it’s a victory made hollow by the overall industry’s continued struggle for viability amid one of its worst sales declines …