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BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese spacecraft carrying three astronauts docked with an orbiting module Monday, another first for the country as it strives to match American and Russian exploits in space....

JIUQUAN, China (AP) -- China will launch three astronauts, including a mother of one who flies transport planes, to live and work on a space station for about a week, a major step in its goal of becoming only the third nation with a permanent base orbiting Earth....

A shop in the east end of Glasgow is completely demolished in a suspected gas explosion.

An American acrobat is to become the first person in more than a century to walk a tightrope over Niagara Falls after being granted rare permission.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A TV documentary series about an Anabaptist community in Montana offers a "distorted" and contrived image, bishops representing the Hutterite faith in the U.S. and Canada said Thursday....

BEIJING (AP) -- China suspended three officials and apologized to a woman who was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy in a case that sparked an uproar after graphic photos of the mother and her dead baby were circulated online....

BEIJING (AP) -- China suspended three officials and apologized to a woman who was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy in a case that sparked an uproar after graphic photos of the mother and her dead baby were circulated online....

BEIJING (AP) -- China suspended three officials and apologized to a woman who was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy in a case that sparked an uproar after graphic photos of the mother and her dead baby were circulated online....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A veteran Middle Eastern TV reporter who had interviewed Osama bin Laden months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has disappeared with four other people on a restive southern Philippine island where Muslim militants are active, officials said Friday....

Community leaders are calling for meetings with Unilever bosses over plans to shut sites in Flintshire, Swansea and Bridgend, cutting 450 jobs.

Disgraced tycoon Allen Stanford is sentenced to 110 years in jail for operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of more than $7bn (£4.5bn).

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rioters angry over the killing of an independence activist by police set fires and killed one person in Indonesia's restive Papua province before hundreds of security forces restored order, the police chief said Friday....

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A signature trophy that Gen. Oscar Naranjo has carefully displayed in glass at Police Intelligence headquarters is odd by any measure: the neatly folded uniform of a rebel commander slain in 2008, clearly showing the holes from the shrapnel that killed him....

Team GB's deputy chef de mission Sir Clive Woodward is not surprised by rows over selection for the London 2012 Olympics.

Conan celebrates his stay in Chicago by presenting the longest hot dog in the history of mankind.

Shiner, Texas, a community that prides itself as being peaceful, has lined up behind a father who beat to death a man he said was sexually assaulting his daughter. "Any father would have done that," one resident says.

Tiger Woods launches his bid for a 15th major title in impressive fashion for a share of second place in testing conditions on day one of the US Open.

The Dalai Lama dismisses a threat by China to pull its Olympics team out of a Leeds training camp as he visits the city.

Banking reform, fiscal challenges, NAMA and the impact of the Eurozone crisis will be discussed when ministers from NI and the Republic meet later.

A new hospital in County Fermanagh, which is set to open next week, attempts to show what 21 century health care can be like.