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Alabama prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a grandmother who authorities say forced her granddaughter to run as punishment for eating chocolate, an official said Tuesday.

Looters push past shocked bus passengers to grab jewellery, after the vehicle crashes into a pawnbrokers in Coventry city centre.

Rock On Ruby wins the Champion Hurdle on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival, beating favourite Hurricane Fly into third.

A 12-year-old schoolgirl dies after being hit by a ball during a lesson at a school in Essex.

Insurer Prudential fears tighter rules on the amount of capital it must hold may force it to relocate headquarters from UK.

A woman jailed for falsely retracting rape allegations against her husband loses her Court of Appeal bid to overturn her conviction.

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

BALANDI, Afghanistan (AP) -- Taliban insurgents opened fire on two brothers of Afghan President Hamid Karzai as they left a memorial service Tuesday for 16 villagers allegedly killed by a U.S. soldier....

There is condemnation that billions of aid failed to help the valleys and west Wales as both now stand as the poorest regions in the UK and fall further behind the European average.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Actor and human rights activist George Clooney made a quiet visit to a volatile border region between Sudan and South Sudan last week ahead of testimony he's giving before a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Prosecutors decided Tuesday not to play the video of an emaciated 15-year-old girl who told police that her father and stepmother kept her in a basement for years and starved her, after the judge said during a preliminary hearing for the parents that she had already watched the two-hour video....

The mother of murdered London teenager Stephen Lawrence wants the Home Office to reopen an inquiry into police handling of the 1993 case, amid claims of corruption.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is ready to pass long-delayed legislation overhauling America's highway and transit systems, with lawmakers steering past partisan fights that have kept it sidelined....

A court in the Algerian capital Algiers sentences local al-Qaeda chief Abdelmalek Droukdel to death in absentia for terrorism and murder.

Sheffield student Richard O'Dwyer speaks to the BBC after Home Secretary Theresa May approved his extradition to the US.

Scientists find a way to build nano-sculptures the size of a grain of sand up to 1,000 times faster than previously possible.

MOUNT STERLING, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio officer whose use of a stun gun on a child resulted in the shutdown of a village police force said he shocked the boy twice as the 9-year-old lay on the floor with his hands underneath his body....

UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond tells MPs that the attempted rescue of a British and Italian hostage in Nigeria was their "best chance".

A former Conservative environment minister is calling on the government to drop its opposition to a third runway at Heathrow Airport.

The European Union decides to suspend 495m euros ($655m; £417m) of funds due next year to Hungary because of the country's budget deficit.