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LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister David Cameron stood before the world's media Friday and finally admitted: Yes, he had ridden the horse....

DNA evidence suggests some Scandinavian trees survived the last Ice Age, contradicting the widely held notion that vegetation was wiped out by a great ice sheet.

James Blunt and Katherine Jenkins are forced to cancel performing for British troops in Afghanistan because of problems reaching the base.

ATHENS, Ala. — Apparent tornadoes destroyed houses, sent people to hospitals and tore up the roof of a maximum security prison in northern Alabama as bad weather threatened more twisters across the region Friday, two days after storms killed 13 people in the Midwest and South.

Anxiety mounted from Georgia ...

Nine more farms in the south of England have reported cases of a disease which causes birth defects and miscarriages in livestock, taking the total to 92, the government says.

Emails sent by Education Secretary Michael Gove from a private account should be subject to the Freedom of Information Act, the information commissioner rules.

Several advocacy groups and lawmakers have called for Richard Cebull's resignation, but the federal judge from Montana will probably not face any harsh punitive action for forwarding a racist message about President Barak Obama.

US President Barack Obama says it would be unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon but warns against any pre-emptive attack.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- A reported tornado destroyed several houses in northern Alabama as storms crossed the region Friday, emergency management officials said....

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — Students mourning the deaths of three teens in a shooting at an Ohio high school returned to class Friday, a day after charges were filed in juvenile court against the 17-year-old suspect.

Police were on hand as students arrived under cloudy skies by car, on foot ...

Prosecutors at the UN-backed tribunal investigating the killing of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri want to expand the charges against the accused.

Construction finishes on the Tokyo Sky Tree in Japan - now the world's tallest free-standing broadcast tower completed in Japan.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cost estimates for a key part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law have ballooned by $111 billion from last year's budget, and a senior Republican lawmaker on Friday demanded an explanation....

A Scottish MP suspended from the Labour Party says he will not stand for re-election to parliament in 2015.

NEW YORK — Broadcasters have sued a startup backed by media billionaire Barry Diller that sends live local TV feeds to iPhones and iPads in the New York area.

Two groups of broadcasters, including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the local PBS station, filed suits Thursday in federal court, saying ...

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) -- Deliberations resume Friday in the sexual assault trial of former Denver Broncos cornerback Perrish Cox, after testimony ended with jurors watching a video of him expressing shock that the alleged victim was pregnant and that he was accused of raping her....

A suspected Taliban suicide bomber kills 20 members of a rival militant group, officials say, as violence claims at least 50 lives in Pakistan's Khyber region.

Spanish reporter Javier Espinosa, who escaped to Lebanon from Syria, has spoken to the BBC about his experience in Homs.

WILLCOX, Ariz. (AP) -- Authorities are working to determine what motivated someone to fire a rifle indiscriminately at a southeastern Arizona high school, injuring 17-year-old boy who was watching a baseball game....