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GILBERT, Ariz. (AP) -- Five people died in a shooting Wednesday at a Phoenix-area home, where the investigation was slowed by concerns there could be hazardous materials in 55-gallon drums in the backyard....

BEIJING (AP) -- U.S. officials said Thursday they are still trying to help a blind Chinese activist who says he fears for his family's safety, and denied he was pressured to leave the American Embassy to resettle inside China....

Neil Robertson says Ronnie O'Sullivan is the man to beat at the Crucible after losing to the three-time champion in the World Championship quarter-finals.

The 'spy in a bag' case inquest verdict dominates

Police began "stockpiling" plastic bullets - responsible for fatalities in Northern Ireland - after the London riots, a BBC investigation suggests.

Can Bolt and co beat the clock at London 2012?

A £21m construction contract aimed at regenerating parts of east Belfast has been terminated, the BBC can reveal.

With pension ages rising, more and more people face working for longer. But in farming there are already those grafting away into their 80s.

The NI Ombudsman advises the Planning Service to pay £30,000 compensation to three residents because it failed to enforce planning regulations at an Omagh gold mine.

Activist Chen Guangcheng says he wants to leave China hours after leaving his US embassy refuge, as US-China strategic talks get under way.

The parents of a 12-year-old who died of heart failure during a swimming lesson say defribrillators should be placed in all public buildings.

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- In a last-ditch effort to finish years of work on Nepal's new constitution, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai will dissolve his Cabinet and form a new coalition government that includes members of the main opposition parties, an aide said Thursday....

Grammar schools should be rated on a tougher GCSE measure, a report by the Schools Network says.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told China that it cannot deny the aspirations of its citizens, during a news conference at the start of high-level trade and security talks between the two countries in Beijing.

MOUNT BATUR, Indonesia (AP) -- Putu Restiti and her little sister, Alit, have felt invisible most of their lives, hidden in a run-down shack because they were born with twisted limbs some believe were caused by evil spirits....

MOUNT BATUR, Indonesia (AP) -- Putu Restiti and her little sister, Alit, have felt invisible most of their lives, hidden in a run-down shack because they were born with twisted limbs some believe were caused by evil spirits....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Delegates attending an international conference in the Philippines capital may not see what they came to discuss: abject poverty....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A college student picked up in a drug sweep in California was never arrested, never charged and should have been released. Instead he was forgotten in a holding cell for four days and says he had to drink his own urine to stay alive....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A college student picked up in a drug sweep in California was never arrested, never charged and should have been released. Instead he was forgotten in a holding cell for four days and says he had to drink his own urine to stay alive....

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urges China to change its export-led growth policy and increase domestic consumption.