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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 4 million people across the United States, from Los Angeles to much of the East Coast, live in homes more prone to flooding from rising seas fueled by global warming, according to a new method of looking at flood risk published in two scientific papers....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the United States, Britain and their NATO allies are committed to shifting to a support role in Afghanistan in 2013....

Can Goldman Sachs become servant rather than master?

The Obama give the Camerons a personalised barbecue as a gift to commemorate their US visit, and receive a customised table tennis table in return.

A Nato serviceman is injured in an incident involving a vehicle at the main UK base in Afghanistan, during a visit by US defence chief Leon Panetta.

HEVERLEE, Belgium (AP) -- A torch-light march. Ravioli and meatball dinners. Rides in a funicular railway. A sing-a-long and a dress-up casino evening....

SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) -- A tour bus slammed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps in a horrific accident that killed 22 schoolchildren and six adults returning to Belgium from a joyous ski vacation, police said Wednesday....

Tim Stanley says once-cozy relationship between the U.S. and its old ally has cooled as Obama has turned to domestic priorities. As the prime minister makes a state visit, the chill is not lost on Britons

People in Belgium are in mourning following the death of 28 people, including 22 children, in a coach crash in Switzerland.

Matt Welch says even a second-place finish by Rick Santorum could make him a major force in the GOP -- and that's not a good thing

NOME, Alaska (AP) — Mushers always pose with their lead dogs under the burled arch in Nome after winning the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

When Dallas Seavey won Tuesday, he posed with Diesel and Guinness, but he could have used a little more podium space.

"I had five lead ...

SEATTLE (AP) -- A 3-year-old boy fatally shot himself with a gun he found in a car while his family stopped for gas early Wednesday in Tacoma, police said. It was western Washington's third recent shooting by a child....

SEATTLE — A 3-year-old boy fatally shot himself with a gun he found in a car while his family stopped for gas early Wednesday in Tacoma, police said. It was western Washington's third recent shooting by a child.

"It is incredible in light of the other ones," said Tacoma police ...

US President Barack Obama and UK Prime Minister David Cameron hold a joint news conference after talks at the White House.

A 60th anniversary version of a work composed for the Queen's coronation is announced by the Royal Opera House's new director of opera.

RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- Morocco's internet activists mobilized on Wednesday in outrage over the suicide of a 16-year-old rape victim who killed herself after she was forced to marry her rapist....

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Bogota's eco-friendly mass transit system has been widely emulated around the globe, so urban planners were dismayed when a protest by frustrated commuters turned into a free-for-all that nearly paralyzed Colombia's capital....

The European Union is investigating meetings between five of the region's biggest telecoms, including Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom.

Activists presented a petition Tuesday to the United Nations Human Rights Council calling on Pakistan to free a Christian mother of five from being put to death on the charge of blasphemy.

An independent panel decides that assembly members pay should rise by almost £5,000 from April 2013.