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A top U.S. Justice Department official warned Alabama's education department that the state's controversial immigration law has had "lasting" and possibly illegal consequences for Hispanic school children, according to a letter released Thursday.

Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande are making their final pitch for votes in one of the most dramatic elections in recent French history.

BEIJING (AP) -- With a series of quickly choreographed steps, the U.S. and China outlined a tentative deal Friday to send a blind legal activist to America for study and potentially bring a face-saving end to a delicate diplomatic crisis....

A bomb targeting security forces near a marketplace in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 20 people, local officials say.

A series of council leaders lose their seats as Labour performs strongly.

Adolf Hitler developed a "messiah complex" as Germany began losing World War II, according to a newly unveiled British intelligence report.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has lowers its growth forecast saying that consumer and business sentiment continue to be low.

Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Wakefield, Newcastle, Sheffield, Coventry and Bradford vote "no" to city mayors - but Bristol votes to introduce one and Doncaster decides to keep its one.

The culture secretary could face a probe into claims he failed to declare sponsorship from private firms when he was a shadow culture spokesman.

DENVER (AP) -- Gay couples campaigning for civil unions in Colorado have claimed their biggest victory yet as a key Republican-led House committee advanced a bill Thursday that it had previously opposed....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Three photojournalists who covered the perilous crime beat in the violence-torn eastern Mexico state of Veracruz were found slain and dumped in plastic bags in a canal on Thursday, less than a week after a reporter for an investigative newsmagazine was beaten and strangled in her home in the same state....

A child has been caught on camera at a zoo, seemingly oblivious to the desperate efforts of one of its residents to make a meal out of him.

Pond skater males have evolved elaborate antennae due to sexual struggles with females, say researchers.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The wife of former Minnesota Viking Joe Senser was convicted Thursday of two felonies in a hit-and-run accident that killed a man, with jurors brushing aside her defense that she never saw him and thought she had hit a construction barrel or pothole....

Major employers should give prisoners work experience placements and training and help more ex-offenders get work, Ken Clarke has said.

When a meteor shower streaked across the north California skies 10 days ago, treasure-seekers rushed to California's Gold Country looking for space rocks.

A test checking that an embryo has the right genetic information could significantly boost the number of IVF pregnancies, a UK company says.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Letters from Osama bin Laden's last hideaway, released by U.S. officials intent on discrediting his terror organization, portray a network weak, inept and under siege - and its leader seemingly near wit's end about the passing of his global jihad's glory days....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Letters from Osama bin Laden's last hideaway, released by U.S. officials intent on discrediting his terror organization, portray a network weak, inept and under siege - and its leader seemingly near wit's end about the passing of his global jihad's glory days....

Al Armendariz, the EPA official who resigned in disgrace this week, was no outlier among the Obama administration's regulators.