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GENEVA (AP) -- Cases of dementia - and the heavy social and financial burdens associated with them - are set to soar in the coming decades as life expectancy and medical care improve in poorer countries, the World Health Organization says....

BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. observers came under fire Thursday as they tried to reach the site of the latest reported mass killing in Syria - about 80 people, including women and children who were shot or stabbed. The deaths added urgency to diplomatic efforts to end the escalating bloodshed....

CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) -- Debra Tate hopes that Wednesday is the last time she has to walk into a prison and argue to parole officials that Charles Manson should not be freed....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas judge on Wednesday fined Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary more than $1.1 billion after a jury found that the companies downplayed and hid risks associated with taking the antipsychotic drug Risperdal....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. government filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc. and book publishers Wednesday, saying the publishers conspired with Apple to raise retail electronic-book prices to limit competition....

Two footballers raped a drunk 19-year-old woman as a third man tried to film them through a hotel window, a court hears.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department will take appropriate action in the killing of Trayvon Martin if it finds evidence that a federal criminal civil rights crime has been committed....

An 81-year-old woman critically injured in a fire at a care home in west Belfast dies in hospital.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) -- Two massive earthquakes triggered back-to-back tsunami warnings for Indonesia on Wednesday, sending panicked residents fleeing to high ground in cars and on the backs of motorcycles. No deadly waves or serious damage resulted, and a watch for much of the Indian Ocean was lifted after a few hours....

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) -- Two massive earthquakes triggered back-to-back tsunami warnings for Indonesia on Wednesday, sending panicked residents fleeing to high ground in cars and on the backs of motorcycles. No deadly waves or serious damage resulted, and a watch for much of the Indian Ocean was lifted after a few hours....

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Mobs with iron rods and sticks ransacked a supermarket belonging to a major Shiite-owned business group Wednesday, a company official said, as part of a spike in violence in the Gulf nation in retaliation for a bomb attack on police....

A female prison officer was found naked in a bed with a "dangerous" prisoner who had absconded from an open prison, a court hears.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The Sanford city commission rejected the resignation of the police chief harshly criticized for his handling of the Trayvon Martin case....

LONDON (AP) -- British lawmakers are questioning Heathrow Airport's ability to cope with an influx of passengers during the London Olympics this summer....

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Militant leaders and foot soldiers from the militant group al-Shabab are fleeing to hideouts in a mountainous region of northeastern Somalia after facing increasing military pressure around Somalia's capital, the prime minister said in an interview Wednesday....

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Planned Parenthood sued Texas on Wednesday for excluding the group from participating in a program that provides contraception and check-ups to women....

A $500 (£314) cheque issued by the cash-strapped campaign of Republican candidate Newt Gingrich to qualify for Utah's primary bounced, it emerges.

A prominent Muslim figure in Russia is fatally stabbed in Moscow in what his colleagues say was a racist attack.

Technology giant Apple and major publishers are accused by the US Department of Justice of colluding to increase the price of e-books.

All football fans are banned from a League Two match between Gillingham and Swindon Town following a row over policing costs.