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Mitchell Guist, a star of the reality TV show "Swamp People," died Monday in Louisiana.

A federal judge finds the NLRB abused the law.

Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comedy satirises a fictional dictator's eccentric behaviour, but why do real-life dictators do strange things?

Offshore engineering and fabrication firm Global Energy Group is establishing its first permanent base in Norway.

A House Armed Services Committee member is taking the obscure concept of "sequestration" to the streets, kicking off a nationwide tour Monday to discuss the potential $1 trillion in automatic cuts looming over the defense budget.

An agreement to safeguard a historic country house in Midlothian is being signed by Historic Scotland and Midlothian Council.

Rupert the horse appearing in production of Falstaff

Even as his campaign portrays him as a champion of the middle class and a crusader to keep Wall Street from melting down as it did three years ago, President Barack Obama was set to leave New York Monday with a sizable haul of cash from industries whose excesses he decries from the stump.

BBC 6 Music is named UK station of the year at the Sony Radio Academy Awards, while local radio duo Betty and Beryl become the awards' oldest-ever winners.

Brazil says it will lift millions of children in its impoverished north and north-east out of poverty by expanding its social welfare programmes

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island's governor declared Monday that the state will recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, giving gay couples the same rights as heterosexual ones when it comes to health insurance and a slew of other benefits.

The order signed by Gov. Lincoln Chafee in a Statehouse ceremony directs ...

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Man who cared for famed old tree dies at 103

PORTLAND | Frank Knight's decades-long battle to save New England's tallest elm served as an inspiring tale of devotion, so it is fitting that he will be laid to rest in a coffin made from the tree he made ...

There is a "compelling" case for a system of road charging, according to a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the RAC.

Parents in England are to be given more financial control over support for their children with special educational needs.

CADEREYTA, Mexico (AP) -- Authorities struggled Monday to identify 49 bodies without heads, hands or feet to gain clues into the latest in a series of massacres from an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels, with increasing evidence that innocents are being pulled into the bloodbath along with gang rivals....

Scientists plan to deliver a coffin to Downing Street on Tuesday to protest about "the death of British science".

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday congratulated Mitt Romney on securing the Republican presidential nomination, a gesture coupled with a new line of attack on the GOP challenger that portrays his economic record while governor of Massachusetts as a failure....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama tried Monday to tarnish Mitt Romney as a corporate titan who got rich by cutting rather than creating jobs, opening a new effort to undercut the Republican's claims that his background of business success is just what America needs in a time of deep economic uncertainty....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama tried Monday to tarnish Mitt Romney as a corporate titan who got rich by cutting rather than creating jobs, opening a new effort to undercut the Republican's claims that his background of business success is just what America needs in a time of deep economic uncertainty....

Why securing finance can be tough for tech start-ups