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Plans to let universities dictate the content of A-level papers are welcomed by the exam regulator - but accused of being a "quick-fix gimmick" by teachers.

One of the City's top bankers, Ian Hannam from JP Morgan Cazenove, resigns after being fined £450,000 by the FSA for providing inside information.

A mammal rescue team who have been trying to save a beached whale in East Lothian call vets to have it 'put down'.

Suspected Islamist militants arrested in France were plotting to kidnap a Jewish judge, sources close to the investigation tell French media.

NYTimes Editorial: Stop and Frisk, Continued:

The Bloomberg administration and its police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, have been disturbingly dismissive of complaints about the city’s program of stops, frisks and arrests that is ensnaring hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers each year.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani intelligence officials say an American drone attack has killed eight suspected militants in a region close to the Afghan border....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The United States has offered a $10 million bounty for the founder of the Pakistani militant group blamed for the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people, a move that could complicate U.S.-Pakistan relations at a tense time....

BBC Sport cycling experts predict the big storylines in Melbourne at last test before Olympics

A man jailed for the infamous murder of a waiter on Orkney in 1994 loses his appeal against the conviction.

A man and his teenage daughter are in a critical condition in hospital after a gun attack in north Belfast.

The BBC is to make its 24 live HD streams of the Olympics available to cable and satellite providers.

When it comes to Second Amendment rights, Middle America has spoken -- at the ballot box and the gun store.

Human beings are not random events. Individuals and groups have different histories, cultures, skills and attitudes.

The government will not "ram legislation through Parliament" to increase monitoring of emails and web usage, the deputy prime minister says.

A leading scientist has told the BBC he is resigning from an expert body on the athlete's biological passport because he is being "muzzled".

National Museum Wales claims its best visitor figures at its seven sites since it introduced free entry more than a decade ago.

MOSCOW (AP) -- A blaze Tuesday at a Moscow market killed 17 migrant workers who were unable to escape from the metal shed where they were sleeping, the city fire department said....

MOSCOW (AP) -- A blaze Tuesday at a Moscow market killed 17 migrant workers who were unable to escape from the metal shed where they were sleeping, the city fire department said....

Global Payments, a card processing firm hit by a huge data breach, says the incident has been "contained".

The giant pandas at Edinburgh Zoo have been brought together to mate five times but so far have been unsuccessful.