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Inflation will fall more slowly than predicted during the rest of this year, according to Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England.

David Gilroy was told he would serve a minimum of 18 years for killing Suzanne Pilley, whose body has never been found.

Twitter plans to put its engineers and designers in charge of how their patents are used.

Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed with fewer bumps...

Police investigating the murder of father of two Simon Tang in Carrickfergus 16 years ago arrest two women in the town.

Herald American: School wants to test all students for drugs by Christopher O'Donnell:

SARASOTA COUNTY - Students as young as 11 years old would be tested for use of marijuana, pills, cocaine and heroin under a proposal by a North Port charter school that wants to institute the region's most aggressive student testing program.

Imagine School at North Port hopes to begin drug testing students at its junior high school campus next school year, including sixth-graders. Students would be required to pass a drug test to attend the school and pass at least one random drug test per year to remain enrolled.

Another drug testing program that can't survive even minimal Fourth Amendment scrutiny. Why do the legislatures want to make civil rights lawyers money?

Security forces fired at demonstrators in a Syrian city Wednesday while United Nations observers were visiting, activists said.

Teenagers regularly get an average of only six and a half hours of sleep a night.

Brendan Barber, general secretary of union umbrella body the Trades Union Congress (TUC), is to retire at the end of the year.

David Beckham's hopes of playing for Team GB at the 2012 Olympic Games remain on course.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- After making a $1 million deal to settle allegations that he misused his charity's money and resources, author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson now must face accusations that he fabricated parts of his best-selling books "Three Cups of Tea" and "Stones Into Schools."...

Unemployment rose slightly in the run up to February in Wales, with women bearing the brunt of the increase, say official figures.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- One woman was arrested on suspicion of murder. The body of another was discovered near a lake some 70 miles away....

A study released exclusively to the BBC claims Team GB is on track for its biggest gold-medal haul in a century at London 2012.

The wives of two UN ambassadors make a video urging Bashar al-Assad's wife Asma to pressure him to end the suppression of Syria's uprising.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- The Maldives president announced Wednesday that he will call for an early presidential election following a contentious power transfer earlier this year, but the opposition said the plan fell short of its demands....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- An irritated Anders Behring Breivik refused to answer prosecutors' questions Wednesday about the anti-Muslim militant group he claims to belong to, as his trial on terror charges for the massacre of 77 people entered its third day....

Analogue television is switched off in London, 75 years after it was first invented.

The wives of the British and German ambassadors to the UN have released a four-minute video urging President Assad's wife to help end the violence in Syria.

The Today programme's Sanchia Berg reports on the release of secret files from British colonial rule by the Foreign Office.