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A couple and their baby escape injury after a bin was set on fire at the back door of their home in east Belfast.

Former Fugees singer Lauryn Hill says she failed to file income tax returns in the US for three years as she had gone "underground".

The England Supporters Band was unable to play at the Euro 2012 match against France after its instruments were confiscated.

There was a surprise fall in UK manufacturing output in April, official data from the Office for National Statistics show.

More than 80 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide triggered by two quakes in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials say.

Foreign secretary William Hague arrives in Pakistan for discussions on how to stabilise the region.

The African Union moves its next summit to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, after Malawi refused to let Sudan's Omar al-Bashir attend.

A fast-moving wildfire near Fort Collins in the US state of Colorado has scorched nearly 37,000 acres (14,973 hectares) of land, officials say.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities in Montgomery left a home early Tuesday where they believed the man charged with fatally shooting three people near Auburn University might have been hiding....

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities in Montgomery left a home early Tuesday where they believed the man charged with fatally shooting three people near Auburn University might have been hiding....

Boss of Google Search on how to make it more intelligent

The Justice Department is challenging the legality of the state's plan to remove names from voter rolls months before the 2012 presidential election.

The man whose accusations of sexual abuse helped trigger a criminal investigation, upending the storied Penn State football program, said Tuesday that he stayed at Jerry Sandusky's house more than 100 times as a boy, where the former assistant football coach repeatedly sexually abused him.

Gorilla mothers use "baby talk" signals and gestures when they play with infants, according to scientists.

SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) -- Gunshots rang out and residents fled blazing homes in western Myanmar Tuesday as security forces struggled to contain deadly ethnic and religious violence that has killed at least a dozen people and displaced thousands more....

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West Indies legend Sir Viv Richards says Andrew Strauss's England have all the ingredients to dominate Test cricket for years.

The world's top river basin regions have a vital role in the future in terms of sustaining economic growth in the future, a report suggests.

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's top investigation agency has summoned several key opposition figures for questioning in an apparent bid to disrupt the first massive protest against President Vladimir Putin since his inauguration for a third term....

The US space agency (Nasa) says it has narrowed the expected landing zone for its Mars rover, Curiosity, in August.