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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash - sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist - and then asking the government for replacement cards....

Tensions rise between some of the leading contenders on the second and final day of voting in Egypt's first free presidential election.

Once rare brown argus butterflies have been moving north due to a pattern of hot summers, say researchers.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As one diplomatic effort after another fails to end more than a year of brutal violence in Syria, the Obama administration is preparing a plan that would essentially give U.S. nods of approval to arms transfers from Arab nations to some Syrian opposition fighters....

Rory McIlroy is eight behind leaders David Drysdale and Peter Lawrie after an opening 74 at the BMW PGA Championship.

IPS | Plan may seem ultra-ambitious but given the demand on and pace of U.S. SOF activities in recent years it hardly comes as a surprise.

The Vatican sacks the director of its bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, who is being investigated in a money laundering case.

The Michaela McAreavey murder trial in Mauritius hears more about a claim from one of the accused that he was tortured by the police.

Huffington Post | Older workers who lose their jobs have a harder time getting back to work than their younger counterparts do.

A Metropolitan Police team is to fly to Libya to continue the investigation into the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher, Prime Minister David Cameron says.

High temperatures have been recorded across many parts of the UK and the hot weather is forecast to continue.

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's wide-open presidential election, which was in its second day of voting Thursday, is showing how deeply polarized the nation has become, with backers of rival Islamists and former regime figures each vowing they cannot let the other rule....

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney likes to portray himself as a better job creator than President Barack Obama, but he may have a hard time backing up those boasts....

Even as the head of the Young Republicans at Samford University, Weathers Veazey didn't have a lot of time for politics this primary season.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- European leaders insist they want to keep Greece in the eurozone, but are putting off any agreement on how they hope to accomplish that. Greece says it, too, wants to stay in the eurozone, but until after elections it's uncertain whether it can implement the austerity that Europe has set as a condition for doing so....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- European leaders insist they want to keep Greece in the eurozone, but are putting off any agreement on how they hope to accomplish that. Greece says it, too, wants to stay in the eurozone, but until after elections it's uncertain whether it can implement the austerity that Europe has set as a condition for doing so....

Forecasters say the warm UK weather, which has come soon after below-average temperatures, will continue into next week.

The first commercial cargo ship to visit the space station is attached to the orbiting laboratory by a robotic arm.

HOUSTON (AP) -- A Texas man convicted of trying to sneak out of the U.S. to give al-Qaida restricted military documents, GPS equipment and money was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison - the maximum punishment he could receive....

Defence and prosecution barristers make their final statements to the jury in the trial of two men accused of murdering a take-away delivery driver.