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The government plans a £100m boost for non-traditional lenders to business, including internet finance firms.

Corporal Ricky Furgusson, who was badly injured in Afghanistan, has become one of the latest people to carry the Olympic torch.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Registered sex offenders who have been banned from social networking websites are fighting back in the nation's courts, successfully challenging many of the restrictions as infringements on free speech and their right to participate in common online discussions....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The number of Afghan civilians killed has dropped 36 percent so far this year compared with last, the U.N. said Wednesday, the first time the death toll has declined over multiple months since the United Nations started keeping track....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Thirteen bound corpses, many apparently shot execution-style, have been discovered in eastern Syria, U.N. observers said Wednesday, days after the massacre of more than 100 people provoked international outrage and the coordinated expulsion of Syrian diplomats from world capitals....

BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. observers could smell the stench of burned corpses Friday and saw body parts scattered around a Syrian farming hamlet that was the site of a massacre this week in which nearly 80 men, women and children were reported slain. The scene held evidence of a "horrific crime," a U.N. spokeswoman said....

Lori Anne Madison, 6, the youngest person to compete in the National Spelling Bee, rose to the occasion Wednesday and spelled her first word, "dirigible," correctly.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- This is a little awkward....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- This is a little awkward....

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- What's next for Mitt Romney? The Republican presidential nomination finally in hand, he will spend the next three months trying to undercut President Barack Obama on the economy while portraying himself as Mr. Fix It for a nation with stubbornly and painfully high unemployment....

A child is filmed after receiving anesthesia makes everyone in the hospital room laugh with his reaction to the drug.

Photographer Julia Reyes Taubman spent years documenting what is left of Detroit, and argues its ruins are monuments to American innovation that must be preserved.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Kya Hobdy wanted to ride a school bus to her friend's home for an arranged play date. But a mile from school, the 7-year-old was ordered off the bus and left in tears in an unfamiliar neighborhood....

MIAMI (AP) -- A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre, vicious attack faces a bigger threat from infection than from the injuries themselves, according to experts on facial reconstruction. He will require months of treatment to rebuild his features and be permanently disfigured....

Early-onset Alzheimer's robs families of a future

Want to close your bank account? It could cost you as much as $55....

Want to close your bank account? It could cost you as much as $55....

Want to close your bank account? It could cost you as much as $55....

Seattle police say the same suspect was behind fatal shootings Wednesday that left a total of four people dead and two critically wounded. The suspect shot himself as police closed in.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Those cute mail-order chicks that wind up in children's Easter baskets and backyard farms have been linked to more than 300 cases of salmonella in the U.S. - mostly in youngsters - since 2004....