The pathologist who conducted the post-mortem examination on Iraq weapons expert David Kelly says it was a "textbook case" of suicide, amid fresh controversy over his death. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard contacts independent candidates, as she begins trying form a government after an inconclusive vote. A painting by Vincent Van Gogh, stolen from a Cairo museum, is still missing, says the culture minister, hours after he said it had been found. A man dies after he is hit by up to three vehicles in the early hours of Sunday on a main road in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. Tens of thousands of people in southern Pakistan are fleeing a threatened flood-surge, three weeks after heavy monsoon rains first hit the country. A memorial service will take place later to mark the 25th anniversary of the Manchester air disaster in which 55 people died. Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy says the idea of him joining the Labour Party is "absolute rubbish". Dissident republicans are targeting the Conservative Party conference, claims a Tory MP who served as a soldier in Northern Ireland. Police investigating the shooting of a man on Tyneside release details of three men they want to speak to. Nearly seven people in 10 want the government to impose a cap on the interest rates that can be charged by credit companies, a poll suggests. Fears of heavy rain and flash flooding prompt a severe weather warning for southern England. The first episode of this year's X Factor series is seen by 11.1m people, a significant increase on 2009. British chef and TV personality Jamie Oliver wins an Emmy for his US series Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, which tackles childhood obesity. United States coach Bob Bradley tells BBC Sport he would be interested in becoming Aston Villa's next manager. Nicolas Anelka and Salomon Kalou both score twice as Chelsea thrash Wigan. England captain Andrew Strauss demands a significant batting improvement following a four-wicket defeat by Pakistan in the third Test at The Oval. St Helens captain Keiron Cunningham may have played the final game of his career after suffering a suspected broken jaw against Crusaders. Preview followed by live coverage of Sunday's game between Newcastle and Aston Villa in the Premier League. A London woman who fell from a balcony on her honeymoon, fracturing her spine, is to be flown home on Sunday. A 24-year-old man is shot dead in a back garden in Nottingham in what police believe was a targeted attack.
With renewed economic uncertainty, American investors have withdrawn a staggering $33.12 billion from stock market mutual funds so far this year. The combat mission?s end in Iraq presents risks as President Obama seeks to claim credit without issuing a premature declaration of victory. For much of his life, Feisal Abdul Rauf, who led the proposal for a Muslim center downtown, has found distrust as he tried to reconcile Islam with America and modernism. As he did with the Sept. 11 victims fund, Kenneth R. Feinberg will have to untangle all sorts of thorny issues in administering a $20 billion oil spill fund. As its population threatens to turn from an asset into a burden, India seeks ways to encourage delayed childbirth. As more bring digital devices to national parks, rangers are seeing an increase in mishaps involving technology. As a federal investigation into doping takes shape, some fear the effect on the reputation of Lance Armstrong and his charity work. Larry Dean and his first wife, Lynda, built their 58-acre estate in Johns Creek, Ga., with an 18-hole golf course, a chapel and formal gardens.A home that languished on the market for 17 years was sold to Tyler Perry, and an estate sale closed a chapter in history. In Punjab, a traditional flood plain, officials had at least 48 hours of warning that a torrent was coming. A Van Gogh painting worth an estimated $55 million was stolen from a Cairo museum, and the state news agency quoted a minister as saying it was still missing. Russia, which helped build the plant, emphasized that it could not be used for nonpeaceful purposes. Jon Niese allowed one run and David Wright hit a three-run homer as the Mets defeated the Pirates.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Iowa farms that together recalled more than half a billion potentially tainted eggs this month share close ties, including suppliers of chickens and feed....
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HYDERABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- The world has given or pledged more than $800 million to help Pakistan cope with massive floods, the foreign minister said Sunday, as workers in the south used sandbags and stones to strengthen river levees in areas threatened by rising water....
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday inaugurated the country's first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies....
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BEIJING (AP) -- Flooding killed four people and forced the evacuation of 94,000 people in the northern Chinese port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu river to breach its banks, state media said Sunday....
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's prime minister spelled out his opening position for the new round of Mideast peace talks set to begin next week, insisting Sunday on key security conditions and saying an agreement would be "difficult but possible."...
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EPES, Ala. (AP) -- Former USDA official Shirley Sherrod says she is meeting with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday to discuss a new job offer....
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent Harold Dow, who helped shape the documentary program "48 Hours" and covered the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and the Sept. 11 attacks, has died. He was 62....
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VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) -- President Barack Obama had a simple task for his first morning on vacation: shoot over to a Martha's Vineyard bookstore to fill out his daughters' summer reading list and grab himself a novel....
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Betty White phenomenon keeps getting bigger....
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) -- As Kyle Busch crossed the finish line for a three-race sweep, his crew quickly credited the driver for his role in the record-setting moment....
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YUMA, Arizona — Move over, Sarah Palin, there's another rising star in the Republican Party. KABUL, Afghanistan — When Ismail Nemati set out from Kabul last week to join his family in nearby Wardak province for the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, friends said, his biggest fear was running into Taliban forces who might question his allegiances. San Joaquin Valley lawmakers and homeowners still feel left out of the Obama administration's billion-dollar bids to ease the nation's foreclosure crisis. As I prepare to celebrate the 102nd birthday of one of the greatest presidents in U.S. history, I am more than a little disturbed by the conservatives who are trying to rewrite history about him and others. Asking a conservative pundit for advice on race is like asking an ayatollah for advice on preparing the Christmas ham. ORANGEBURG, S.C. -- Hundreds celebrated the short lives of Devean and Ja’van Duley, the two toddlers allegedly smothered and driven into a river by their mother, as church elders urged the community to “look out for one another” and find peace in God. SAN DIEGO – Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said Friday that she would defend voter-approved Proposition 8, which prohibits same-sex marriage, if she becomes governor next year. SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The last time Phillip Garrido went to trial after being accused of rape and kidnapping, serious questions were raised about his mental state. ARLINGTON, Texas -- Ivan Rodriguez has been out of the Army for nine weeks, and he's itching for his next assignment.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's two major parties wooed independent lawmakers on Sunday after an inconclusive election left the nation facing its first hung parliament since 1940 and set up financial markets for a sell-off.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran unveiled a prototype long-range unmanned bomber on Sunday, the latest in a stream of announcements of new Iranian-made military hardware as tension mounts over its nuclear programme.
SHADADKOT, Pakistan (Reuters) - Floods are threatening to wreak havoc in more areas of south Pakistan in a catastrophe that has made the government more unpopular and may help Islamist militants gain supporters.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish authorities issued an arrest warrant for the founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks on Saturday on suspicion of rape, but then swiftly withdrew it.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc will remove a failed blowout preventer from its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico under watchful eyes of investigators probing the deadly April 20 explosion, the top U.S. official overseeing the oil spill response said.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain said on Sunday that the United States has expressed willingness to take in Cuban political prisoners released following diplomatic intervention from Spain and the Catholic Church.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has to pursue political reform to safeguard its economic health, Premier Wen Jiabao said during a visit to the booming town of Shenzhen, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the western coast of Greece on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey reported.
CAIRO (Reuters) - A Van Gogh painting worth an estimated $55 million was stolen from a Cairo museum on Saturday and after reporting it had been recovered, the state news agency quoted a minister as saying it was still missing.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Newly ubiquitous "Golden Girls" actress Betty White won the fifth Emmy of her career on Saturday for hosting an episode of "Saturday Night Live," while fellow screen veteran Ann-Margret got a standing ovation after receiving her first statuette.
The Iowa egg producer that federal officials say is at the center of a salmonella outbreak and recalls of more than a half-billion eggs has repeatedly paid fines and settled complaints over health and safety violations and allegations ranging from maintaining a "sexually hostile work environment"...
The Obama administration is seeking $1.5 billion in disaster relief for farmers, a move that could boost the reelection prospects of Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) but that critics say circumvents established procedures.
CHICAGO -- Corporate profits are soaring. Companies are sitting on billions of dollars of cash. And still, they've yet to amp up hiring or make major investments -- the missing ingredients for a strong economic recovery.
On Monday, Kenneth R. Feinberg -- Washington's expert in the messy business of valuing tragedy in dollars and cents -- officially takes over one of the messiest cases of his career.
I pride myself on being a man of substance. A wonk. A nerd, even. And like most nerds, I don't have a great eye for fashion. So I ask this question seriously: What did you think of Chelsea Clinton's Vera Wang wedding dress? Want to buy it? What if I can sell it to you really cheap?
In late 2004, Iceland native Siggi Hilmarsson was a miserable Deloitte consultant working in Manhattan. Craving the comforts of home during his first Christmas away, he made skyr, Iceland's yogurt, in his Tribeca kitchen.
In the wake of news about a spike in new applications for unemployment benefits comes another potentially troubling sign: A record number of workers made hardship withdrawals from their retirement accounts in the second quarter.
Ken Adelman is co-founder and vice president of Movers and Shakespeares, which offers executive training and leadership development.
Forget tuition. Once that bill is taken care of, the biggest financial challenge you face when sending kids off to college is making sure they don't overdraw their checking account or run up a credit-card bill they can't pay off. Here's how to help boost their financial GPA (and save big bucks on...
One of the most valuable investing precepts is: "Know what you own." For most people, this means doing basic research on one's holdings. For some, it means reaching for a cold Bud and thinking: "That's my fifth one today. Maybe I should buy Anheuser-Busch InBev." In my case, it means sitting in my...
NEW YORK -- Would you buy stock in a company that has hemorrhaged tens of billions of dollars for years and run through four bosses in quick succession just because it has turned a profit for a few months?
U.S. stocks fell for a second straight week as a jump in jobless claims and an unexpected slump in manufacturing in the Philadelphia area suggested that a rebound in corporate profit growth won't be sustained.
NEW ORLEANS -- Five years after Hurricane Katrina, the rebuilding of the Big Easy has created a new community of Latino immigrants in this famously insular city, redrawing racial lines in a town long defined by black and white.
It was awkward from the start, this marriage of necessity between BP and the federal government. The government had ultimate authority; BP had the technology to plug the Macondo well. Something known as the National Contingency Plan called for a "unified command" in which government officials would...
Rod Blagojevich is broke, and U.S. taxpayers could be on the hook.
President Obama will embark on his deepest foray into Middle East peacemaking next month when he hosts Israeli and Palestinian leaders in a bid to achieve what his predecessors could not: a deal to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel and end the two sides' bitter conflict.
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Obama family takes a picnic lunch amid low-key vacation on Martha's Vineyard. 
Doctors and school officials are trying to determine why 12 Oregon high school football players suffered mysterious, dangerous muscle problems that landed them in the hospital last week.
A month after being released from the guardianship of child protection services, Laura Dekker, a 14-year-old Dutch girl, today set sail from Gibraltar in an effort to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.
A supplier to Iowa farms that recalled potentially tainted eggs has long history of violations
Ahmadinejad inaugurates Iran's first unmanned bomber aircraft
GOP candidate for governor in NY would house welfare recipients in converted prisons
Gunmen battling police take hostages in luxury hotel in Rio, but surrender after 3 hours
A registered sex offender, wanted for forgery and grand theft, was arrested ahead of Seattle's Hempfest with the help of a local ABC crew.
After nearly a half-century, Lee Hamilton is packing his books, sorting his papers and preparing to head home to Indiana. Since he arrived in Washington as a freshman congressman elected in the 1964 Democratic landslide, Hamilton has chaired some of Congress' most influential panels ? the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Intelligence Committee, the Joint Economic Committee, the Iran-contra inquiry ? and led or served on the nation's top blue-ribbon commissions investigating issues from the Iraq war to the 9/11 attacks.
A Look Back at the lows and lowers of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. It has been revealed that Pratt is shopping a sex tape of Montag and himself.
The heaviest American children and teens are only getting bigger, researchers found.
Researchers say cars' onboard computers can be vulnerable to hackers.
While it's easier than ever to lose one's airline frequent flier miles to harsher expiration policies, it's also easier than ever to keep them alive.
A look at what small businesses would get hit by a tax hike.
Iran on Sunday unveiled the first long-range military drone manufactured in the country at a ceremony to mark the nation's Defense Industry Day, state media reported. The Israeli prime minister said Sunday that talks with Palestinians will only lead to a lasting peace deal if the latter guarantees security and recognizes that Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people. With no clear winner emerging from a cliff-hanger national election, Australian political leaders jostled for support from a handful of independent lawmakers Sunday. Gunmen intercepted a vehicle carrying salaries of Iraqi government employees in western Baghdad and made off with nearly $600,000, police officials told CNN on Sunday. Shahdadkot's half a million people frantically tried to flee their homes Saturday as a wall of water threatened to burst mud berms and drown the entire city in Pakistan's Sindh province. More than 94,000 people were evacuated after heavy rains caused a river to swell to dangerous levels in northern China, state media reported Sunday. Swedish authorities say they have revoked an arrest warrant alleging rape against Julian Assange, founder and editor of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. Two failed bomb attempts by the Somali Islamist group, Al-Shabaab, killed 11 militants around Mogadishu, Somalia's transitional government said Saturday. Venezuela's ambassador to the United States is defending his country's controversial airline service to the capitals of Syria and Iran -- both countries that are designated by the U.S. as state sponsors of terrorism. A "major gun battle" between drug traffickers and Mexican federal police broke out Saturday evening in Juarez, Mexico, just 30 yards from the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, according to a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman. |
