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Syrian government forces renew their attack on the city of Homs as international mediator Kofi Annan says civilians are trapped there.

BBC | Sometime mid-June, China plans to launch it's fourth manned space flight.

Justice Minister David Ford announces a review of sentencing in murder cases in Northern Ireland.

WSJ | House to vote June 20 on contempt charges for Holder.

Member states of the European Southern Observatory organisation green-light the project to build the world's biggest optical telescope.

The jail piloting drug treatment for sex offenders

MADRID (AP) -- A (EURO)100 billion ($125 billion) plan to rescue Spain's banks failed to restore confidence in the country's financial future, with stocks and bonds unable to hold on to early gains on Monday....

An experiment that is using drugs to treat high-risk sex offenders at Whatton Prison in Nottinghamshire appears to be yeilding results.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown lashed out Monday at press baron Rupert Murdoch, his son and his British newspapers, raising the stakes in a highly charged and very public battle between the two men.

The decision by NHS doctors to strike over pensions will damage patient care, says health secretary Andrew Lansley.

LONDON (AP) -- Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown lambasted Rupert Murdoch before Britain's media ethics inquiry on Monday, claiming the media mogul had lied under oath to the inquiry and saying that a Murdoch tabloid had undermined the British war effort in Afghanistan....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. team that tried for more than a month to negotiate a reopening of blocked Pakistani supply routes into Afghanistan is coming home without an agreement, U.S. officials said Monday....

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The names of the two little girls are an enduring mystery, their images found among crumpled bodies on Civil War battlefields. Each is posed primly on chairs, ringlets cascading past the rouged cheeks of one, the other dressed in a frilly hoop dress....

Maths and science in primary schools in England are going to be made more demanding, in a curriculum review.

They call it the "coolness factor."

The Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Olli Rehn is holding a news briefing which is expected to include comments about Spain's bank bailout.

SAN GABRIEL, Calif. (AP) -- U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson suffered a seizure in connection with two Los Angeles-area traffic crashes that led to a felony hit-and-run citation over the weekend, officials said Monday....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The lead prosecutor called Jerry Sandusky a serial predator in opening statements Monday, while a defense lawyer said the young men accusing the former Penn State assistant football coach of sexual abuse had a financial interest in the outcome....

The US temporarily pulls out of talks with Pakistan over re-opening vital supply routes to the Nato-led forces in Afghanistan.

A Texas father caught a man sexually assaulting his 4-year-old daughter and punched him in the head repeatedly, killing him, authorities said.