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NEW YORK (AP) -- Michelle Obama chose an off-the-shoulder Marchesa gown for her duties Wednesday night as hostess at a White House state dinner honoring the British prime minister and his wife, David and Samantha Cameron....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- "Pink slime" just went from a simmer to a boil....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- "Pink slime" just went from a simmer to a boil....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- "Pink slime" just went from a simmer to a boil....

Ruben Navarrette says before it gives its nod, the GOP should consider Romney's weakness in the south--a region that's a must-have to win the presidency

ROCKWOOD, Pa. (AP) -- A tractor-trailer collided with a school bus carrying about two dozen students and adults Wednesday in western Pennsylvania, killing the truck driver and injuring at least 20 people, most of them students, authorities said....

BOSTON (AP) -- The longtime girlfriend of former mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges she helped him evade capture during 16 years on the run, and a man who claims one of his relatives was strangled by Bulger called her a "monster."...

China's Premier Wen Jiabao has delivered a swansong speech, in which he said he may invite some of his critics for face-to-face talks. Some of those critics - also among China's poor - had gathered from all over the country to watch the event on a single television set in Beijing, from where Damian Grammaticas reports.

Plans to teach software design prove controversial

The rules of the new National Employment Savings Trust (Nest) pension scheme should be relaxed to make it more attractive, MPs says.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Union leaders upset that this summer's Democratic National Convention will be held in right-to-work North Carolina plan to stage their own political gathering in a more union-friendly state....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Union leaders upset that this summer's Democratic National Convention will be held in right-to-work North Carolina plan to stage their own political gathering in a more union-friendly state....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Union leaders upset that this summer's Democratic National Convention will be held in right-to-work North Carolina plan to stage their own political gathering in a more union-friendly state....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A state governor was suspended from President Hugo Chavez's governing party on Wednesday after making critical remarks about the president of Venezuela's National Assembly....

PARIS (AP) -- A North Korean and a French orchestra performed a landmark concert on Wednesday, adding a note of harmony to longstanding tensions between the isolated nation and the West....

SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) -- A tour bus carrying schoolchildren home from a class trip slammed head-on into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps, killing 22 Belgian students and six adults and instantly changing a joyous skiing vacation into a tragedy spanning two European nations....

SEATTLE (AP) -- A 3-year-old scrambled out of his child seat after his parents stopped for gas early Wednesday, found a gun police say was left in the car by his father and fatally shot himself in the head....

ROCKWOOD, Pa. (AP) -- A tractor-trailer collided with a school bus carrying two dozen students and adults Wednesday in western Pennsylvania, killing the truck driver and injuring at least 20 people, most of them students, authorities said....

The American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians on Sunday has been flown to Kuwait, as the US defence secretary visits Afghanistan.

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- The parents of two Virginia Tech students killed in a 2007 campus massacre worked for years to prove university officials were negligent for waiting to warn students of a gunman on campus, and a jury agreed with them on Wednesday....