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Ministers should draw up security plans to deal with a break-up of the eurozone "as a matter of urgency", a committee of MPs and peers warns.

Amanda Clayton hit it big playing the Michigan Lottery. Like many winners, she used her $1 million prize to buy a new house.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A recent Supreme Court ruling is forcing the FBI to deactivate its GPS tracking devices in some investigations, agency director Robert Mueller said Wednesday....

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Abdominal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions in Virginia will become mandatory under a bill signed into law Wednesday by the state's Republican governor, who had faced a national uproar when earlier versions of the measure had sought to make the exams medically invasive....

Judy Helms considers herself a South Carolinian. For years, the state of South Carolina agreed. But a new survey of the North Carolina-South Carolina border, taking advantage of the latest mapping technology, may soon turn Ms. Helms into a Tarheel.

"I felt like I was stepped on," she said, recalling ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is the 2012 election shaping up to be all about women?...

The Vatican has taken the unusual step of overruling the closing of 13 parishes by the Cleveland Diocese, a rare case of Rome reversing a U.S. bishop on the shutdown of churches, a lawyer who fought the cutbacks said Wednesday.

The office known as the Congregation for the Clergy ruled ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's nuclear chief signaled Tehran's envoys may bring a compromise offer to the talks this week with world powers: Promising to eventually stop producing its most highly enriched uranium, while not totally abandoning its ability to make nuclear fuel....

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) -- Osama bin Laden spent his last weeks in a house divided, amid wives riven by suspicions. On the top floor, sharing his bedroom, was his youngest wife and favorite. The trouble came when his eldest wife showed up and moved into the bedroom on the floor below....

SYDNEY (AP) -- An Australian investment banker pleaded guilty Thursday to chaining a fake bomb to a young woman's neck in a bizarre extortion attempt last year....

BOSTON — Scientists are reporting what could be very bad news for efforts to customize cancer treatment based on each person's genes.

They have discovered big differences from place to place in the same tumor as to which genes are active or mutated. They also found differences in the ...

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Since the iPad first appeared in 2010, video gaming has been one of the key features Apple has touted for the device, alongside video viewing, electronic reading and Web browsing.

Arsenal agree a deal to sign Germany international striker Lukas Podolski from Cologne this summer, BBC Sport understands.

Thousands of Jewish women fled the Nazis by applying for jobs as domestic servants in the UK - but little is known of their stories, writes Mario Cacciottolo.

A teaching union survey suggests members are not confident a new exam system can be implemented next year.

The elections watchdog says the Scottish government must clarify its plan on letting 16 and 17-year-olds vote in the independence referendum.

The Greek government indicates that it has secured sufficient backing for a debt swap deal that will enable it to avoid defaulting on its debts.

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Racial tensions erupt into high school brawl

CARSON | Dozens of students battled one another at a high school Wednesday in a racially motivated brawl between black and Hispanic students that left two injured and three under arrest, authorities said.

At least 30 students traded punches and kicks in ...

PC David Rathband, who was shot and blinded by gunman Raoul Moat, planned a new life in Australia prior to his death, his brother says.