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Coup leaders in Mali agree to stand down in exchange for amnesty and the dropping of sanctions, in a deal with regional bloc Ecowas.

Rising utility bills push the annual cost of owning and running a home in Scotland to a 10-year high, new research suggests.

Mali state television announced late Friday that the leader of Mali's coup, Captain Amadou Sanogo, and the Economic Community of West African States have agreed to a plan under which the coup leaders will hand over power to the civilian government in exchange for the end of trade and diplomatic sanctions.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says he has "no doubt" that fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony will be arrested this year because the international spotlight has helped boost the hunt for the Lord's Resistance Army leader....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says he has "no doubt" that fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony will be arrested this year because the international spotlight has helped boost the hunt for the Lord's Resistance Army leader....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemen's newly appointed president fired several old-regime figures and relatives of the former leader in a major shake-up of the country's military Friday, a move meant to show he was making good on promises of reforms in the wake of his predecessor's ouster....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni warplanes pounded al-Qaida fighters on Monday, killing at least 16, while seven soldiers died in clashes with militants in the country's troubled south where the army is trying to uproot the terror group, military officials said....

A large Southern California nuclear plant is out of commission indefinitely, and will remain so until there is a clear understanding of the causes of problems at two of its generators as well as an effective plan to address them, the nation's top nuclear regulator said Friday.

Teachers' conferences are to hear claims that academies are a form of back-door privatisation.

Ilyse Hogue says a consumer campaign caused the soda corporation to back out of a group that has pushed controversial voter-ID and "stand your ground" laws. In a post-Citizens United world it's a preview

CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptians voted for a second day Sunday in a presidential runoff pitting Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister against a conservative Islamist, a contest overshadowed by questions of whether the ruling military will transfer power to civilian authority by July 1 as promised....

CAIRO (AP) -- The Muslim Brotherhood declared early Monday that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won Egypt's presidential election, which would be the first victory of an Islamist as head of state in the stunning wave of protests demanding democracy that swept the Middle East the past year. But the military handed itself the lion's share power over the new president, sharpening the possibility of confrontation....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is embracing an unlikely group of political icons as he tries to paint Mitt Romney as extreme: He's praising Republican presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is embracing an unlikely group of political icons as he tries to paint Mitt Romney as extreme: He's praising Republican presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is embracing an unlikely group of political icons as he tries to paint Mitt Romney as extreme: He's praising Republican presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan....

A New Jersey man is making a quick recovery after accidentally shooting a 4-inch (10cm) nail into his heart.

Social networking websites are being used to threaten and make false allegations against teachers, according to a teachers' union.

British gold medallist Sally Gunnell OBE has given her stamp of approval to a new design issued by Royal Mail.

HIGHLAND PARK, N.J. (AP) -- Inside the New Jersey church where he now lives, Saul Timisela recounted Friday how as a Christian youth leader, he fled his native Indonesia after finding the desecrated corpse of his brother-in-law following an attack by anti-Christian extremists that destroyed their city....

HIGHLAND PARK, N.J. (AP) -- Inside the New Jersey church where he now lives, Saul Timisela recounted Friday how as a Christian youth leader, he fled his native Indonesia after finding the desecrated corpse of his brother-in-law following an attack by anti-Christian extremists that destroyed their city....