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A County Tyrone man is sentenced to seven years in jail, for causing death by dangerous driving in Omagh.

South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin becomes the first woman to win the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, for Please Look After Mom.

The Duchess of Cambridge plays hockey with Team GB players during a tour of the Olympic Park.

Controversy is brewing in Arizona as the state Senate considers a bill that would give all businesses the option to exclude contraceptives from health insurance coverage.

Monty Panesar takes five Sri Lanka Board XI wickets and then hails the experience of spin partner Graeme Swann.

Vice President Joe Biden assumed the role of top campaign surrogate for President Barack Obama, harshly criticizing the economic policies of the GOP candidates.

Readers pictures on the theme of sleep

A large section of the white cliffs of Dover has collapsed into the English Channel between Langdon Cliffs and South Foreland Lighthouse.

Education Secretary Michael Gove sacks the governing body of a school at the centre of a row over attempts to make it an academy.

With the start of the season opener in Australia on Friday, BBC Sport catches up with some of the drivers as they prepare to begin the gruelling 2012 F1 season.

Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the Obama administration is poised to deal a major blow to U.S. oil and natural gas, a leading industry group charged Thursday.

Domestic production of both fuels could plummet if proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations, designed to limit emissions from well sites, go into effect ...

LARGO, Md. (AP) -- Vigorously defending his policies, President Barack Obama ridiculed critics of renewable energy sources Thursday, calling them naysayers and comparing them to the flat-earthers of yesteryear....

LARGO, Md. (AP) -- Vigorously defending his policies, President Barack Obama ridiculed critics of renewable energy sources Thursday, calling them naysayers and comparing them to the flat-earthers of yesteryear....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The world's rich and famous will soon explore Earth's lost frontier, starting with "Titanic" director James Cameron....

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden made an aggressive entry into the 2012 campaign Thursday, calling out Mitt Romney and the other Republican presidential hopefuls by name for their failure to support the auto bailout....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An investigation of the bungled criminal prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Stevens has concluded that prosecutors never conducted a comprehensive review of material favorable to the senator....

Around 7,000 more women in the UK have been fitted with banned PIP breast implants than previously thought, according to the government.

Syria's Bashar al-Assad survives at great cost

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) -- The wife of the corporate engineer who claims he was insane when he killed a man outside a Georgia preschool says she believes her husband is faking a mental illness....

BEIJING (AP) -- As big city politician Bo Xilai rose to nationwide prominence with an anti-mafia crusade and mass sing-alongs of communist anthems, many of China's leaders trekked to his metropolis approvingly. Not President Hu Jintao....