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A third of parents spend between 10 and 49 hours a month per child ferrying their children about by car, a survey suggests.

Italian novelist Umberto Eco is among the writers in the running for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

The Scottish government says money from criminals will help to fund care for police officers who have been assaulted.

Booker-nominated author William Boyd is taking on the mission to write a new officially-sanctioned James Bond novel.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 struck near Mexico's western coast on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The level of young homelessness in the UK is underestimated by more than two-thirds of Britons, a survey suggests.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The General Services Administration inspector general was told the agency spent as much as $330,000 to move an employee from Denver to Hawaii, an example of millions of dollars wasted in relocation costs....

Prime Minister David Cameron says the UK is ready to ease sanctions in response to moves towards democracy, ahead of his visit to Burma on Friday.

George Zimmerman, who shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, is charged with second-degree murder and taken into custody.

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The neighborhood watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin to death had been out of touch and, his ex-lawyer says, "a little bit over the edge" before his arrest on a second-degree murder charge....

Organisations wishing to buy web addresses ending in their brand names have until midnight to submit applications.

People with Huntington's disease, a debilitating brain condition, appear to be "protected" from cancer, according to a study in Sweden.

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Public health advocates and doctors on the front lines of Pennsylvania's natural gas-drilling boom are attacking the state's new Marcellus Shale law, likening one of its provisions to a gag order and complaining that vital research money into health effects was stripped at the last minute....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Public health advocates and doctors on the front lines of Pennsylvania's natural gas-drilling boom are attacking the state's new Marcellus Shale law, likening one of its provisions to a gag order and complaining that vital research money into health effects was stripped at the last minute....

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- After a day of fierce fighting, troops from South Sudan captured an oil-rich border town that is claimed by Sudan, whose troops withdrew under the onslaught, a Sudanese government minister said Wednesday....

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- After a day of fierce fighting, troops from South Sudan captured an oil-rich border town that is claimed by Sudan, whose troops withdrew under the onslaught, a Sudanese government minister said Wednesday....

A Cairo court rules that Hazem Abu Ismail, a leading member of the conservative Salafist movement, is eligible to stand in Egypt's May presidential election,

SEATTLE — Striving to reduce the trash it sends to landfills, Seattle has banned foam takeout containers and plastic bags, told residents they must recycle cardboard and compost food scraps, and set up a registry for people to opt out of getting phonebooks.

Some city officials think the city can ...

LANSING, MICH. — Rusty Bongard keeps a 1976 photo of motorcycle lobbyist Jim Rhoades sitting on the steps of the Michigan statehouse in Lansing, holding a sign that reads "Helmet Laws Suck."

Now 35 years after that picture was snapped, Mr. Bongard, a spokesman for the biker advocacy and safety ...

A Florida prosecutor charged George Zimmerman with second-degree murder Wednesday in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin after weeks of protests demanding his arrest.

Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey said at a news conference in Jacksonville that Mr. Zimmerman, 28, was arrested Wednesday after turning himself in to authorities. She ...