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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats are hoping that late campaign appearances by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will help push her hand-picked successor to victory in a special congressional election in Arizona....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Commerce Secretary John Bryson is taking a medical leave of absence to undergo tests after suffering a seizure connected to two traffic accidents in the Los Angeles area over the weekend....

A former Marine who lost his legs in Afghanistan carries the Olympic torch as it travels from Aberdeen to Dundee.

'I'm preparing for the biggest summer of my career'

CNN's Tom Foreman simulates texting while driving for five seconds with surprising results.

Control over business rates should be passed to the Welsh government in order to boost the economy, a report is expected to urge.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez sang, danced and gave a marathon speech at the launch of his re-election bid, offering a preview of a campaign in which he is likely to push his limits trying to show Venezuelans he is emerging from cancer's shadow....

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese police on Tuesday announced the arrests of 23 people as part of a joint U.S.-Chinese investigation into a gun trafficking ring that smuggled dozens of firearms into the country....

Scientists are to investigate if severe flooding near Aberystwyth has contaminated land with harmful metals from abandoned mines.

The bodies of a man and a woman are found on the back seat of a car in Cambridgeshire, police confirm.

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian investigators have searched the apartments of several protest leaders and called them in for questioning Tuesday, making it difficult if not impossible for them to lead a mass demonstration against President Vladimir Putin planned for the June 12 national holiday....

Warner Bros has re-opened the Leavesden film studios in Hertfordshire after a £100m rebuild.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Settling a notorious 1980 case that split the nation and led to a mistaken murder conviction, an Australian coroner ruled Tuesday that a dingo took a baby from a campsite in the Outback, just as her mother said from the beginning....

TOKYO (AP) -- Safety concerns after a recent crash have put plans to briefly deploy the U.S. Osprey aircraft to a Japanese city on hold, officials said Tuesday....

TOKYO (AP) -- Safety concerns after a recent crash have put plans to briefly deploy the U.S. Osprey aircraft to a Japanese city on hold, officials said Tuesday....

The rise and fall of Brixton's GAS gang

Papers analyse reaction Spanish bank bailout

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Millions of North Korean children are not getting the food, medicine or health care they need to develop physically or mentally, leaving an entire generation stunted and malnourished, the United Nations said Tuesday....

There are warnings of possible flooding in southern England and Wales with heavy rain forecast to continue.

Legendary Cuban boxer Teofilo Stevenson, who won three Olympic gold medals but turned down the chance to fight Muhammad Ali, has died aged 60.