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Nominations close for May's council elections - the first since devolution to be held separately from the election to the Scottish Parliament.

Sound and images of a South African paramedic's life

Why the world is watching by-elections in Burma

Voters in Bradford West are going to the polls to make their decision in a by-election prompted by the resignation of the constituency's MP.

Doubts are being raised over government claims that the NHS in England is making good progress on its savings target.

Fighting between rival militias around the southern Libyan town of Sabha leaves at least 70 people dead, officials say.

The first volume of a "book of cancer knowledge" has been published, which scientists say will speed up the search for new cancer drugs.

Lawyers for former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn urged a judge on Wednesday to dismiss a civil suit brought against him by the New York hotel housekeeper who accused him of assaulting her last year.

A Spanish court on Wednesday dismissed an allegation that one of the world's richest men, Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, raped a young woman on a yacht on the island of Ibiza in 2008.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- The president of El Salvador denied Wednesday that his government had rewarded his country's two largest street gangs for striking a truce credited with a dramatic drop in the staggering national homicide rate....

Costica Bradatan: A Tunisian set himself afire and brought on Arab spring. Why don't 30 Tibetan self-immolations bring on dramatic change?

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has told Virginia high school graduates to believe that the U.S. has a bright future....

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden delivered a harsh attack Thursday on Mitt Romney's foreign policy views, arguing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is rooted in a Cold War mentality and is uninformed about the current challenges facing the U.S. abroad....

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is "consistently wrong" on U.S. manufacturing, painting him as someone who doesn't believe the sector is crucial to future U.S. economic success and as a proponent of outsourcing....

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