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Public sector workers are taking part in a 24-hour UK-wide strike over pensions, but the government insists it has made them a "generous offer".

A UN special envoy calls for a halt to the use of firearms on human rights activists in Cambodia after a string of violent incidents.

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China gets the nod to take over a US bank, the first such US approval for a Chinese firm.

Conservationists launch what they call an urgent mission to save the turtle dove from extinction in the UK.

Plans for a new national police force in Scotland are to be endorsed by MSPs, but amid a warning the move could be hindered by civilian job cuts.

CHICAGO (AP) -- A defense attorney for the man accused of killing relatives of Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson told jurors during heated closing arguments Wednesday that prosecutors failed to prove their case. The state's attorneys retorted in sometimes embittered remarks that the defense was clearly desperate in the face over overwhelming evidence....

Scotland's councils spend almost £40,000 every minute and must do more to make sure they deliver value for money, the spending watchdog says.

North Carolina's newly approved constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage has sparked an effort to convince the Democratic Party to move its upcoming national convention somewhere else.

Police in Honduras search for journalist Alfredo Villatoro. who was kidnapped only days after another journalist was found dead.

The flame for the London 2012 torch relay and Olympic Games is lit in Olympia, Greece, and briefly goes out.

Lunchtime dance craze catches on among Swedish workers

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage warns that some EU countries face "mass civil unrest, possibly even revolution".

His final TV ad on Social Security helps explain his defeat.

A confessed killer of Americans is about to walk free in Iraq.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman but that states should decide whether it's legal for same-sex couples to marry....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman but that states should decide whether it's legal for same-sex couples to marry....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman but that states should decide whether it's legal for same-sex couples to marry....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman but that states should decide whether it's legal for same-sex couples to marry....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman but that states should decide whether it's legal for same-sex couples to marry....

There is no law against publishing Mein Kampf in Germany, but the copyright holders have until now refused permission to do so. The time has come to reissue Hitler's book, argues Jewish leader Stephan J Kramer.