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The audible use of an expletive by X Factor contestant Frankie Cocozza on a live results show on ITV1 last October was "unacceptable", Ofcom rules.

The sister of a Welsh journalist detained in Libya rejects claims her brother is a spy.

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) -- International experts fought Monday to prevent a fire from reaching a second arms depot in the capital of the Republic of Congo, a day after a blaze set off a series of explosions so violent they flattened buildings, killing hundreds and trapping countless others under the falling debris....

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A judge has cleared the way for an Alabama county to move forward with the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, overruling Wall Street claims that state law didn't allow the county to file the case.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas E. Bennett issued his order late Sunday, ...

An Iranian court has canceled the death sentence for an American accused of espionage in Iran, a semi-official news agency there reported Monday.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Workers in rubber boots chip at the frozen ground, scraping until they've removed the top 2 inches (5 centimeters) of radioactive soil from the yard of a single home. Total amount of waste gathered: roughly 60 tons....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two small, back-to-back earthquakes shook residents of the San Francisco Bay Area awake Monday morning but appeared to leave no serious damage or injury.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude-2.9 quake struck at 5:33 a.m. about eight miles northeast of San Francisco in the city of El ...

Volokh: Are Historical Cell-Site Data Protected Under the Fourth Amendment After United States v. Jones? by Orin Kerr:

No, concludes Judge Bennett in United States v. Graham (District of Maryland, March 1, 2012). Judge Bennett concludes that historical cell-site records are not protected because they fall under the third-party doctrine: ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will speak at the high school graduation ceremony in Joplin, the Missouri city slowly recovering after being struck by a devastating tornado a year ago....

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will speak at the high school graduation ceremony in Joplin, the Missouri city slowly recovering after being struck by a devastating tornado a year ago.

Obama will deliver remarks at the May 21 commencement, according a White House official, who requested anonymity in order to ...

WASHINGTON — Radio host Rush Limbaugh said his apology to the Georgetown law student he called a "slut" was sincere, but he also joked that he, too, got a busy signal Monday when he called the show to join the growing roster of advertisers abandoning it.

The student, Sandra Fluke, ...

The supermarket giant Tesco has pledged to create 20,000 permanent jobs in the UK over the next two years.

The career of Dad's Army and Lloyd George actor Philip Madoc

CARLSBAD, N.M. — Crews pulled the body of a 4-year-old boy from a narrow, 30-foot-deep hole in Carlsbad early Monday, nearly two days after he disappeared while playing outside his home next door, state police said.

Crews reached the boy about 7 a.m. Monday and police spokesman Robert McDonald confirmed ...

Actor Philip Madoc dies at the age of 77 after a short illness, his agent says.

A couple who tortured and killed a 15-year-old boy they accused of using witchcraft are jailed for life for his murder.

Tributes have been paid to former Conservative minister Lord St John of Fawsley, who has died aged 82.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- In an unusually early and strong warning, national weather forecasters cautioned Friday that conditions are ripe for violent tornadoes to rip through the nation from Texas to Minnesota this weekend....

Ballot stuffing and other irregularities are reported as Vladimir Putin looks set to return to the presidency four years after he was forced out by term limits.

Iran's Supreme Court overturns the death sentence imposed on an Iranian-American national accused of spying for the CIA and orders a retrial.