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By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN; Associated Press By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN MEXICO CITY - Shortly after sunrise last month in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found 14 butchered bodies in a van outside city hall, a salvo in a seesawing battle of horrors between Mexico's two most powerful drug cartels. Soon after, nine people were hanged from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo.

(iStockphoto) (AP) WASHINGTON - David Simon of Simon Property received a pay package worth more than $137 million for last year, and the typical CEO took home $9.6 million, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Here are some ways to think about just how much money those salaries represent. Simon's $137 million is almost entirely in stock awards that could eventually be worth $132 million.

Pre-diamond jubilee surge in royalism hides bad news for Prince Charles, with almost half wanting succession to jump to William Share Tweet this Email Tom Clark guardian.co.uk, Thursday 24 May 2012 13.52 BST Comments (...) The Queen at a diamond jubilee celebration at the Royal Academy of Arts on Wednesday.