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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Health care spending has eased up recently, a welcome respite for government and corporate budgets. But why has it? And will relief last or are medical costs on a roller coaster, like gas prices?...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Health care spending has eased up recently, a welcome respite for government and corporate budgets. But why has it? And will relief last or are medical costs on a roller coaster, like gas prices?...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Health care spending has eased up recently, a welcome respite for government and corporate budgets. But why has it? And will relief last or are medical costs on a roller coaster, like gas prices?...

Scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine say that increasing obesity could have the same impact on global resources as an extra billion people living on the planet. Professor Ian Roberts, who led the research, explains how they calculated the findings.

"Serious weaknesses" in England's care system have been revealed by a report which found children's homes failed to protect runaways, the children's minister Tim Loughton has said.

China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft successfully docked with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space laboratory on Monday, completing the next step in the country's ambitious space mission.

DENVER (AP) -- Crews in northern Colorado faced powerful winds Sunday as they battled a blaze that has scorched 87 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history. Meanwhile, local authorities are focusing on another concern - looting....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- The chairman of an Australian parliamentary committee that examined gay law reform said Monday that he believes lawmakers will maintain a ban on same-sex marriage when the contentious issue is voted on later this year....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- The chairman of an Australian parliamentary committee that examined gay law reform said Monday that he believes lawmakers will maintain a ban on same-sex marriage when the contentious issue is voted on later this year....

The elusive quest for peace in Syria is now crippled with recent setbacks, as a U.N. observer mission has suspended operations and attempts to rescue civilians trapped in violence have proved futile.

MEVASSERET ZION, Israel (AP) -- With the holy city of Jerusalem visible in the background, a man and woman standing side-by-side lead prayers for about 50 congregants who have come to welcome the Sabbath in this suburb's Reform synagogue....

TAFTANAZ, Syria (AP) -- The main street of this once-bustling Syrian farm town now stands eerily quiet, its shops charred black from arson, its shoppers replaced by cats roaming the rubble of homes destroyed by tank fire....

Ford workers begin a 24-hour strike in a dispute over pay and pensions, but the car giant says it is "willing and available" for further talks.

Greece's New Democracy party vows to keep the country "anchored" to the Euro after a slim election victory, as Mark Lowen reports.

The UK's "army of unpaid carers" is being "let down" by the failing social care system, campaigners have been warning. Tracy Sloan almost missed her own cancer diagnosis as she put off a smear test because she always put her disabled son first.

Legislation to change the organ donation system in Wales is to be published, which will automatically add everyone to the register, and only objectors will be taken off.

As Sir Paul McCartney reaches 70, BBC Wales uncovers 1967 footage of The Beatles in Bangor in which they react to the death of their manager Brian Epstein.

Ethiopia is forcibly displacing tens of thousands from their land in the Omo Valley to make way for state-run sugar plantations, a campaign group says.

Labour prepares to unveil its slate of candidates to become Wales' first elected police and crime commissioners.

An Islamist backed by the Muslim Brotherhood declares victory even as military rulers issue a decree that virtually strips the position of power.