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A woman is detained under the Mental Health Act after an eight-hour stand-off involving armed police at Saltburn seafront in East Cleveland.

LONDON (AP) -- Former News International executive Rebekah Brooks and her racehorse trainer husband Charlie were arrested Tuesday in dawn raids that also netted four other suspects in the spreading phone hacking scandal....

ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) -- Explosions illuminated the night as we ran, hoping to escape Syria after nearly three weeks of covering a conflict that the government seems determined to keep the world from seeing. Tank shells slammed into the city streets behind us, snipers' bullets whizzed by our heads and the rebels escorting us were nearly out of ammunition....

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Bobblehead dolls of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln have been pulled from sale in Gettysburg National Military Park's visitors' center.

Dolls of John Wilkes Booth with a handgun were taken off bookstore shelves Saturday, a day after a reporter from Hanover's The Evening Sun ...

Argentina's highest court rules that women can no longer be prosecuted for having an abortion after being raped.

GENEVA (AP) -- French surgeon Jacques Beres has operated in war zones for 40 years, but he says the carnage in Syria is among the most horrific he has ever witnessed....

GENEVA (AP) -- French surgeon Jacques Beres has operated in war zones for 40 years, but he says the carnage in Syria is among the most horrific he has ever witnessed....

GENEVA (AP) -- French surgeon Jacques Beres has operated in war zones for 40 years, but he says the carnage in Syria is among the most horrific he has ever witnessed....

A US student accused of spying with a webcam on a homosexual encounter involving his room-mate is not a criminal, his defence lawyer says.

Doobie Brothers drummer Michael Hossack died at his home in Dubois, Wyoming, on Monday at the age of 65.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Held hostage on her Connecticut estate, philanthropist Anne H. Bass received an injection from masked assailants who made a chilling ultimatum: Hand over millions of dollars for the antidote, or die from a deadly virus....

No matter what you call it, British Prime Minister David Cameron's trip to the United States is intended to demonstrate that ties between the countries remain as close as ever.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A man accused of crashing through a fence at the Philadelphia airport and speeding down a runway was having irrational thoughts that people were chasing him, his lawyer said....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of college students could be in for a shock this summer when the interest rate on a popular federally subsidized student loan doubles unless Congress acts....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other....

Long before the sun even hinted at lighting the sky Sunday, an American soldier left the remote combat outpost of Camp Belambay, allegedly headed for two villages in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan's Kandahar Province.

Gunmen attack a public bus near Ethiopia's western town of Gambella killing 19 men, officials say.

The prosecution in the case of the death of a pensioner during the London riots has accepted a guilty plea of manslaughter by a 17-year-old boy.

Why badger baiters need to start watching the skies.

Architects fear the Taj Mahal could slowly be sinking as its foundations weaken due to a lack of water in the Yamuna River.