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WASHINGTON (AP) -- With big postal cuts looming, the Senate is deciding whether to stabilize the ailing U.S. Postal Service with a short-term cash infusion while delaying most decisions on closing post offices and ending Saturday mail delivery by requiring further review....

A collection of personal items belonging to Mahatma Gandhi has been sold for over a £100,000 at auction in Shropshire

An ailing Russian politician who says he was cheated out of winning a mayoral race vows to continue his hunger strike despite talks with the chief electoral officer.

Augmented reality glasses targeted at athletes are being researched by glasses maker Oakley, the firm's boss confirms.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa's state government employment policies have not discriminated against black employees and job applicants, a judge ruled Tuesday in a case closely watched by civil rights activists....

More details emerge in the tale of spending and travel abuses at the General Services Administration, including an $800,000 conference at a Las Vegas casino, fake award ceremonies to get around regulations and "scouting visits" to Las Vegas by officials and family members.

The British Film Institute announces its celebration of Alfred Hitchcock which includes a restoration of his silent films.

LINCOLN PARK, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan lottery winner was charged with fraud Tuesday for collecting food stamps and public health insurance despite pocketing a $735,000 jackpot.

Amanda Clayton, 25, was silent during a brief court hearing after spending a night in jail. A not-guilty plea was entered, and her ...

CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation's capital Tuesday before landing for the last time near its new museum home....

The beginning of the U.N. observer mission to Syria heralds a new phase in more than a year of upheaval across the country. But such is the polarization in Syria that most analysts see the mission as the least worst option before violence sets the agenda again.

Plans to introduce a minimum price on alcohol in England and Wales could cause a rise in counterfeit alcohol, warns the Local Government Association.

A jealous Scot who brutally murdered a teenager and her parents after she spurned his advances is jailed for at least 35 years.

One of Nasa's iconic space shuttles has made a dramatic flypast over the centre of the US capital on the way to its final resting place in a museum.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans controlling the House are eying big cuts to food stamps and would make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to claim child tax credits as they piece together legislation to cut $261 billion in the coming decade....

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa's state government employment policies have not discriminated against black employees and job applicants, a judge ruled Tuesday in a case closely watched by civil rights activists.

District Judge Robert Blink issued the ruling after overseeing a trial last fall in the class-action lawsuit affecting ...

Proposals to close 29 post-primary schools in the North Eastern Board area are contained in a document leaked to the Ballymena Guardian.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker John Boehner has finally endorsed Mitt Romney to be the Republican presidential nominee, saying his economic policies would help the unemployed find jobs....

A former model says she has been humiliated by staff at her doctor's surgery in East Sussex after they left a voicemail calling her an "old dog".

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian forces renewed shelling of the central city of Homs on Monday, one day after the head of the U.N. observers' mission demanded that warring parties allow the evacuation of women, children, elderly and sick people, activists said....

A photographer from the French news agency AFP wins a Pulitzer award for his photo of an Afghan girl screaming after a suicide bomb attack in Kabul.